tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3265815883750858671.post6059931061521535944..comments2023-12-28T01:20:10.551-08:00Comments on Love it or Leave it: Get on the Socialist BusJessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08097977654421639414noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3265815883750858671.post-23241040813050004152009-03-24T12:18:00.000-07:002009-03-24T12:18:00.000-07:00I'm all about public programs that improve the qua...I'm all about public programs that improve the quality of life for our citizenry especially during hard times, but I just can't get behind socialism. I had reservations about putting 79 on my email because I didn't people associating the number with one of the many revolutions that when on that year, so please don't call me names. <BR/><BR/>What I see as a redistribution of wealth is more of a compensation of the money we give the gov't to run the show; especially if the middle class and working poor are proportionally forking over the bills. I won't get behind state sponsored tv, sorry C-Span, or rationing, or religion, sorry evangelicals, but I will get behind public housing, public transportation, public parks, public beaches, etc.<BR/><BR/>I have reaped the benefits of many of this social programs and I also know what it's like to live without them. I know what it's like for your parents to lose their professional careers, in much more dramatic fashion than getting laid off, and have to move their family into a one bedroom dwelling, work full time, and still have to go to a faith based food bank to make ends meet. So don't poo pooh social programs, you never know when you'll need them. We never saw that coming.<BR/><BR/>I hope that our POPULIST president really goes through each line item and chucks out the services that don't preform and enhances those that do. Mostly, I hope President Popular(ist) has a vision in which those programs assist our citizens through the hard times and gets them on the road to the better times. <BR/><BR/>About our prison systems, the other country that has a disproportionately number of prisoners and fails it citizens...Russia. I guess we're not so different after all, they have crazy ideologues, we have crazy ideologues, they torture, we torture, they build walls, we build walls, they invade Afghanistan, we invade Afghanistan, they over spend on their defense, we do too. Twins separated at birth?Nicatatorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14281412115512410071noreply@blogger.com