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Hi D&O, I am in your camp and I think a majority of U.S. voters are. I re-registered Independent in 2000; vote the candidate in State and local issues while I always vote Dem for national candidates. Nationaly the "new" GOP is wacked on social issues and not at all pragmatic financially. I don't like the "crying heart" too altruistic Dem bent. There are poor that need assistance forever but dang few unless they want to. What's their incentive? They get welfare, section 8 housing, HEAP for utility expense, food stamps, food bank, soup kitchens, free breakfast/lunch/and backpack meals for kids, Salvation Army for clothes, free flip phones et al. They can get cash from their "benefit cards" for cigs & booze. Medicade for healthcare including free transportation to and from. This is all meant to help for a while, not a lifetime. We do too many a disservice providing all this for too long. Yes some are truely needy. Growing up in the '50s I never heard of a Social Worker, not even after studying Sociology in collage did I know it was an occupation. My gosh, now they're everywhere, taxpayer funded. Should the government be the altruist? I think the Dems go too left too often. I'm w/ you in the middle.


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Re: cont'd
By: Down And Out Man
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Sat, 31 Oct 15 2:22 AM
Msg. 17490 of 54959

I'm out of time. There's a lot of other things I'm out of step with vs. the GOP. And a least as many vs. the Dems.

So, yes, I really am a guy w/o a party, somewhere in a weird middle ground.

I WANT us to spend money (even though we don't "have" it) on infrastructure. I think saying that climate change is the single biggest threat facing the world is one of the stupidest things I've ever heard. (After the nukes start going off, who's gonna care whether the best farm areas move 300 miles north?)

Meanwhile, the world's 7 billion people continue to increase at the rate of about 100 million a year.....

Gotta go,
D&O


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