Janskeet said:
Well, I was generalizing, I'm not in a very good mood right now.
No kidding.
The thing that I don't like is, the difference between Democrats and Republicans is not night and day like it seems our people like to catagorize them as.
It is night and day. Look at what each party believes in and what their policies are.
But I just feel Democrats take this country in a better direction in an inadeqate world.
The problem is, we don't live in an adequate world.
I find most wealthy democrats share the same views as the common man and earned their money more civilized than a lot or reps. Hilary made a lot of her money writing books and smart investing. Most republicans seem to be wealthy because they inherited it. Of course, I'm just generalizing, there's good people in both parties.
And what source do you have that most Republicans inherited their wealth? I'll give you 3 examples of people right now that didn't inherit theirs to your 1 democrat. Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, and Larry Elder. That's 3 Reps that did NOT inherit their wealth. Every one of them, especially Rush, just read about his life sometime, worked their asses off to get where they are. I'll even add another one, but he bills himself as an Independent. Bill O'Reilly, who was audited 3 times during the Clinton years just because of who he is. He finally had to call the Clintons personally and tell them to call off the IRS or he'd file a lawsuit, at which time they stopped auditing him.
Every smart person makes their money buy working smarter and not harder. That's just good economic sense. To become really wealthy, you need more sources of income then you have of debt going out. There are plenty of examples, on both sides, of people working hard to make their money. There's also plenty of examples, on both sides, of people inheriting millions.
Now, why do we need a new thread for this? Shouldn't it all go into the politics thread? I realize that thread was pretty much dead and buried, but there's no reason it can't be "resurrected".
For the record, I'm a Republican that workd my ass off for 15 years to get where I'm at and I don't appreciate it when the government is always trying to raise my taxes to "help everyone else". If you want to help people out, let us keep our money. It is a proven fact that when taxes are lower, charitable contributions go up. Also, assuming you're referring to the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, Clinton may have signed it, but it was a Republican Congress that got it to his desk. In fact, it was part of the Republican Contract with America. Also, while the economy, especially in California, experienced huge growth during the Clinton years, it was not at all due to Clinton. It was in fact, as someone else mentioned, due to the technological breakthroughs of the Internet and massive VC funding for all kinds of Internet startups (most of which failed during the .com bust).
So puhlease try to get at least some of your facts accurate before coming in here and spouting off on how stupid we all are for being Republicans instead of Democrats.