yeah pro-life is a big enough single issue to pull a lot of votes from people I know down here.

Then there is also the really strongly held belief that Obama or really any Democrat wants to take their money and give it to lazy people who lie and cheat the system.

No, I do not get it, like at all. Especially with facts about tax rates being lower in recent years and Romney making money from abortions and not being anti-choice in MA and and and.

Then there is also the really strongly held belief that Obama or really any Democrat wants to take their money and give it to lazy people who lie and cheat the system.

Which is kind of amusing (for carefully calibrated definitions of amusing), since the most red states are also the ones that get the most government money. So the people they seem to hold in contempt are themselves.

Good luck, ita.

So, Zachary Quinto was here in town yesterday at the local university for a get out the vote campaign. Everyone failed to tell me this.

Morning. Hate Mondays. Boo. Not awake. Not wanting to pack and head to the airport.

Why is Jesse yelling? It is still morning!

Good luck today, ita. I just read a story by a woman who got a neurostimulator to treat her intractable migraines. It is in this month's Marie Claire. Her name is Tia Williams, she is a beauty writer, I think.

So the people they seem to hold in contempt are themselves.

well, at least for the people I know, no. Maybe their neighbors, but it is really usually "others". The people I hear make these arguments are all solidly middle to upper middle class. The people who live on the other side of town, or, more likely, in the city, not the suburbs. Those are the lazy government supported people.

I wish the government would support me. Where's my socialist state, dammit!

I was told there would be jet packs and socialism.

jet packs and socialism.

Now THERE's a steampunk party theme I can get behind!

I just do not understand the seeming jealousy I hear towards people who get government assistance. STuff like "must be nice." "I wish I got medical care for free."

I have tried to have conversations with people about how living at those standards would not be fun or easy or desirable or everyone would be doing it. And it makes no headway it seems. There is just deep resent from the help being forced from them and it coming from government. I know for many of these people I know, they think charitable organizations, specifically churches should be providing all assistance. Despite proof from a gagillion years that the populous will not voluntarily give enough to help those in need. They only see the poor as greedy, not the rich or comfortable.