streetsoldier wrote:"What have you done for ME lately"? A plea for some omnipotent Government or agency thereof (who apparently "knows better than you or I how we should run our lives"?) to assist?
How about, "What can I do for MYSELF (and only when personal means and efforts have been exhausted, ask for help...but family and friends first, THEN local, THEN State and if not these, then and ONLY then Federal intervention)?"
This illustrates for all the biggest difference between liberals and conservatives, IMHO...and I'm an unabashed conservative.
I for one ALWAYS ask myself that everyday - I don't take handouts, I rarely ask for help because I feel that I should be able to figure it out myself.
I don't want the government to do ANYTHING for me than protect me, my rights and be there if and when I cannot assist myself, thank you very much. This is something that I've supposedly been paying for ever since I've been working and I'm expecting that help when I need it.
Both sides are more interested in what they can do for themselves, aka line their pockets, give friends and loyalists inside jobs and point the finger at the otherside as being the ones that screwed everything up. That's High School bullcrap and yes, I will always ask "what have you done for me lately?" when it's time to go to the polls because I'll be damned if I'll allow someone to be paid WITH MY TAXPAYER MONEY and not represent me and his/her constituent's wishes.