This the place where we stake our claims to Real America by way of parading out our relatives who have served in the military, irrespective of how or when they served The more of your relatives, the higher your standing as True Americans Who Really Are the Only Worthy Americans...i got this idea from another thread. Be patient, its a long post, but in the end I bitch about paying taxes.

Hats off to your relatives. Its enough that they have served. Clearly, the very fact that they have served itself really is the point -- not to what end they have served -- especially those that have served in Iraq. Lets be clear: even though their sacrifices were squandered by lesser men for political ends, your veteran relatives have earned you some political capital.

Though the objective in Iraq isn't clear - that is - remains unclear despite several creative revisions, let us not be put off, but let us use the service of your veteran relatives to stake down a position, boolstered as we are by their sacrifices and especially positioned to entitlements through their participation in Freedom, Sacrifice, Democracy and all the rest of it. What better occasion to lay claim to the True Politics than by availing ourselves of this holiday?

This three day weekend, wonderfully positioned so near the holidays is brought to you on behalf of our fearless fighting boys who have asked that you shop merrily, enjoy yourselves, and eat much. But most of all, they who sacrifice ask that you yourself under no circumstances, sacrifice. The boys have asked me to tell you that the very thought of your spending the weekend contemplating their sacrifices really brings them down and by the platoon. They ask that you use these three days to the fullest. And this Veterans day is special, as this one is sponsored by Rumsfeld as a kind of parting gift to your relative soldiers. Cheney, Pearle, and Wolfowitz also contributed to the occasion. Thank you boys. I thank you on behalf of our most recent cohort of relatives & soldiers, themselves unable to thank you personally, occupied as they are in an occupied country. I realize that none of you men were yourselves veterans, but goddam it. I salute you!

About that political capital: let me hazard a guess: you reckon that your fightin' brothers, cousins, uncles and dads aren't laying their asses down abroad so that we can have health care here at home, or an educational system befitting a first world country, or for that matter...anything besodded with the label "Public Good" or "Public Institution." your fighting boys aint dyin' so that you have to pay taxes to support anything "public."

And why should they anyway? Public? What good is that? The field is level, as far as I can see, and so I declare "Everyman for himself!" Good conservatives, (that much gooder by way of famial connection to real heroes...)let us speak plainly, let us renounce the very notion of "public good" and call it what it really is: hand outs to the lazy, the criminal, the indigent, the shiftless, the stupid the fat pregnant minorities. Lets raze the very notion of "public." a curse, it is. Be gone, wretched public...ye huddled masses, ye got a heavy stink about ye!

And lets hear it for the "Private." lets have schools for those who can afford them and likewise medical care. Roads? Infrastructure? Parks? Beaches? Pay for play I say! Police, fire -- any service -- name your price. The free-market will bear us all out, those of us that are worthy. By the sweat of our own brows, we can stand on our own in a society that recognizes and rewards our work and bestows dignity on the term "private." those that can afford it, shall have it. Those that can't....can rot. It works for Brazil.

So come on, goddam it! We can all be winners, all you have to do is work real hard, like Donald Trump, Paris Hilton , K-Fed and millions and millions of other captains of industry. They've blazed a trail, the least we can do is follow! Onward Trump, Paris...show us how! Lets break the liberal yoke of taxation in support of the "public" and step boldly into the "Private."

Taxes my ass! I ain't paying em, and I don't have to. My goddam brother didn't spend two years fixing helicopters in the Airforce in that hell hole Ogden Utah so that I would have to do my part to educate some goddam minority kid or to house his shiftless father in some prison while his mother pops out kid number 8.

Can I get an "amen" from a cheerleading hillbilly on this one?

 

Being poor is not an excuse for having contempt of other poor people who lack the will or missed opportunities
to have worked themselves out of poverty.

Sounds like you and I had a similar start in life, though.

Having been poor doesn't exonerate you from social responsibility in my book. But: another red herring. I never accused you of not knowing how it is to be poor...i accused you of contempt of the poor and of using your contempt to justify your screed against taxes.