republi-CON brainwashing and what we can do about it:

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10. Thanks!

It was a post I originally wrote on kpete's thread - the link is up top.

I just think it's excruciatingly important, critical, VITAL, to help people connect the dots. I dunno - sometimes maybe it just takes people being hit by a freakin' 2x4 across the face before they wake up and, indeed, face what's going on. Maybe there's a backhanded gift to the sequester. Well, SHIT, whaddya want? When all you want is lower taxes, then you're gonna have to give up some of those things that really AREN'T luxuries - they're everyday necessities that you rely upon. Necessities that aren't all about some imaginary welfare queen still lurking somewhere inside the roach-infested skull of the corpse of ronald reagan.

Necessities like Head Start programs for EVERY child who needs it, not just those lucky enough to win a lottery.

Necessities like air traffic control at small airports - like maybe what we have here in greater Los Angeles. One of the busiest skies in the world. And we have quite a few local airports for civil aviation in this general area, that's dominated by the colossus of L.A.X., and some of these little airports will be losing their control towers. Oh yeah - THAT'LL be great. What could possibly go wrong?

And how'd you like to play Russian Roulette every time you go to the meat counter - 'cause you won't have as many FDA meat inspectors on duty behind the scenes anymore.

And how'd you like to find out that the state has dictated that you should just go away and die - because funding for the cancer treatments you relied upon have dried up.

And ... well, you get the idea...

People HAVE TO BE EDUCATED about what those taxes fund. What those taxes pay for. It's not all the simplistic lazy moochers sucking it all up and we're just gonna teach all of "THEM" a lesson. "THEM" is US. Guess some people are gonna learn the hard way. We pay taxes and levy taxes - BECAUSE THOSE TAXES PAY FOR STUFF WE WANT AND NEED. LEGITIMATE STUFF WE WANT AND NEED!!!!! And those taxes are NOT, repeat, NOT bad things. They're necessary. They're part of what it takes to BE America. They're part of what we love about our country and what our country can do for us. BECAUSE WE UNDERWRITE ALL THOSE LEGITIMATE AND VERY NECESSARY PROGRAMS WITH OUR TAXES. Remember when President Kennedy stated - "ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country." I'd say what you can do for your country is PAY YOUR FRICKIN' TAXES. AND STOP COMPLAINING ABOUT IT!!!!! Those taxes are the DUES we pay to be part of a country like this. Those taxes underwrite and support the things that make this country the wonderful and desirable and beloved country that it is. America is America BECAUSE WE FUND ITS WONDERFULNESS AND BOUNTY WITH OUR TAX MONEY.

And I hate to say this - but I wonder how many people, who are now distraught because of what America can't afford to provide for them in their legitimate need, voted republi-CON. Because that's what you get when you vote republi-CON. You get IGMFU'd.