REALLY unretrofiedforu??

First of all it is kook conservative kook not cook, cooks believe in crazy things and cooks cook food!

I am one of those middle class Americans who has fought my way to where I am today. I have pulled my self out of poverty, by working hard and doing always trying to do the right things. There was a time in my life when I had no place to live and $.75 in my pocket faced with a week until I had any shot at any money coming in, but I made it without any entitlements which is why I made it to where I am today. Some of my friends who took the easy way or thought themselves to be entitled are still in that position. Not because they are not intelligent or talented individuals, not because there was no opportunity for them but because they didn't want to do the work! Entitlements and the entitled mentality is what inevitably enslave us to the government or those who are providing for us. If you think for a second that the so called representatives in Washington care about you then you are sorely mistaken and if you think for a minute that they no better than the rest of us then you deserve to sit around on at your computer blogging away taking unjustified shots at conservatives while waiting for the next hand out.

The real problem with that mentality is that system – your utopia will break the same way that it has in every other part of the world where it has been tried. That is why the middle class is dwindling not because people are not willing to help others and if keeps going the way it is it will be a world of the have’s and have not’s instead of a nation where anyone can be anything that they wanted to be so long as they did the right thing and put in time and work.

The thing is that I have never met anyone who is not willing to do their part for the people out there legitimately cannot provide for themselves, but with that comes laziness or fraud if you will and you end up with people who think that they are entitled who sit around waiting for their next government handout or collecting unemployment as long as they can and not even looking for a job unless it is under the table which seems to be a growing population these days at least in my personal experience. I don’t believe everything that Beck says, but I do agree with him when he says that we need to restore this country to the greatness that was the United States Of America unfortunately we are going in the wrong direction when someone like me who works 16 to 18 hours a day to create jobs and provide for my family is expected to pay a higher percentage into the system than people who make less then me because people like you think that it is only fair to redistribute the wealth. How is that fair to me? I’ll tell you what if that is the way that you want it then give me back all of the time I have spent working for what I have and reimburse me all of the fun I missed out on trying to do the right thing and going to school and working two and three jobs to pay for it because I am starting to think that I am entitled to that!

Ides, snickerass, other conservative cooks we get it;

You want a country of the rich, by the rich, for the rich.

I don't think any sensible middle class American would ever be in favor of abolishing gov't entitlements. Those are the type of people who actually are part of reality and have witnessed what many in the top classes have probably not. Those middle americans, which are now either stratified towards the bottom or the top and are decreasing in number, completely understand the importance of social spending.

The only feasible conclusion I could come to on why people would want to decentralized an obviously-needed centralized gov't is either they are just plain stupid, or just plain rich.

"ANOTHER weekend, another grass-roots demonstration starring Real Americans who are mad as hell and want to take back their country from you-know-who. Last Sunday the site was Lower Manhattan, where they jeered the “ground zero mosque.” This weekend, the scene shifted to Washington, where the avatars of oppressed white Tea Party America, Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin, were slated to “reclaim the civil rights movement” (Beck’s words) on the same spot where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. had his dream exactly 47 years earlier.

There’s just one element missing from these snapshots of America’s ostensibly spontaneous and leaderless populist uprising: the sugar daddies who are bankrolling it, and have been doing so since well before the “death panel” warm-up acts of last summer. Three heavy hitters rule. You’ve heard of one of them, Rupert Murdoch. The other two, the brothers David and Charles Koch, are even richer, with a combined wealth exceeded only by that of Bill Gates and Warren Buffett among Americans. But even those carrying the Kochs’ banner may not know who these brothers are.

Their self-interested and at times radical agendas, like Murdoch’s, go well beyond, and sometimes counter to, the interests of those who serve as spear carriers in the political pageants hawked on Fox News. The country will be in for quite a ride should these potentates gain power, and given the recession-battered electorate’s unchecked anger and the Obama White House’s unfocused political strategy, they might.

All three tycoons are the latest incarnation of what the historian Kim Phillips-Fein labeled “Invisible Hands” in her prescient 2009 book of that title: those corporate players who have financed the far right ever since the du Pont brothers spawned the American Liberty League in 1934 to bring down F.D.R. You can draw a straight line from the Liberty League’s crusade against the New Deal “socialism” of Social Security, the Securities and Exchange Commission and child labor laws to the John Birch Society-Barry Goldwater assault on J.F.K. and Medicare to the Koch-Murdoch-backed juggernaut against our “socialist” president.

This is hardly true of the Kochs. When David Koch ran to the right of Reagan as vice president on the 1980 Libertarian ticket (it polled 1 percent), his campaign called for the abolition not just of Social Security, federal regulatory agencies and welfare but also of the F.B.I., the C.I.A., and public schools — in other words, any government enterprise that would either inhibit his business profits or increase his taxes. He hasn’t changed. As Mayer details, Koch-supported lobbyists, foundations and political operatives are at the center of climate-science denial — a cause that forestalls threats to Koch Industries’ vast fossil fuel business. While Koch foundations donate to cancer hospitals like Memorial Sloan-Kettering in New York, Koch Industries has been lobbying to stop the Environmental Protection Agency from classifying another product important to its bottom line, formaldehyde, as a “known carcinogen” in humans (which it is). "

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/opinion/29rich.html

This country is being fckd for those hijacking freedom!

Yes! That was an incredible article!

I also urge every American no matter what side you're on to read this:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/30/100830fa_fact_mayer

PLEASE READ IT!

AMERICA'S FUTURE DEPENDS ON IT!

Doesn't matter how you feel about Sharpton personally, everyone should realize that Civil Rights has been his issue since day one, Beck on the other hand is an opportunist trying to make a mockery of the day.

Especially the day Yankel Rosenbaum got into the mix.

Sharpton ihistory of polarizing racial issues doesn't give him credibility in this case.

There was nothing for him to get upset with by this rally's contents aside from jealousy he was left out.

What does Yankel Rosenbaum have to do with this?

I agree that his death was a tragedy that shouldn't have happened, but how is that related to Sharpton, Beck or these rallies?

And jealousy of being left out? You're smarter than that, with Beck's subject matter do you really think Sharpton would attend an event being headlined by Beck and Sarah Palin? Come on, please try to make more sense.

Beck is a borderline mental case, and Sharpton is a complete race huckster. They would make a cute couple.

Beck & Sharpton: same ideological tools different audience

yet Beck manages to make more enemies and isolate his audience more.

You forgot to mention that they're both crass opportunists par excellence.

Except that Dr. King's niece is attending and supporting Beck's rally ?

So? Just because she's his niece doesn't mean she's smart.

Rev. Sharpton is right, the White Trailer Trash Anti American, Racist,Nazi, White Supremacist beck the little man with the little way of thinking proves he is totally and completely effective as a leader of the HATE and FEAR Mongering right wing republican Brain Dead tea party.

You see if this Racist Hate and Fear Monger were a leader which he is NOT, he would be insulted to have to share his date with a REAL and GREAT AMERICAN such as Dr. King.

Now look at the COWARDLY, GUTLESS, SPINELESS HATE and FEAR Mongering right they can't even think for themselves they have to STEAL another mans Work and Holiday and whats even more Insulting this COWARD and Hate and Fear Monger who Never did anything for this country other then try to DESTROY it tries to to hide behind me a Real retired MILITARY Combat Vet. keep your Phony praise you NAZI, RACIST, WHITE SUPREMACIST TRASH and my you find nothing but DEATH around every corner you C O W A R D.

Fools criticizing other fools.

Any post that contains the phrase "Al Sharpton thinks" is sure to have a few laughs in it.

And this one did! Thanks for the smiles.

Sharpton is the King of Spontaneous Rallies.

Glenn Beck is one of two things, a huckster or crazy. I lean towards the former especially when you add in his constant touting of the Goldline scam. He just has to makes sure he keeps the con job going long enough to buy some property in a country that doesn't have extradition treaties with the U.S.

Ah, fundamentalists. They're all exactly the same, and equally stupid, whether liberal or conservative. I vote for a celebrity boxing of Sharpton vs Beck to settle it. Because that is the level of dignity this deserves.

Glenn Beck vs Al Sharpton?

How did that tagline go? "No matter who wins, we all lose."

"A strange game. The only winning move is not to play."