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<blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 2907282" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>Maybe it depends on what your definition of the &quot;poor&quot; is.&nbsp; You don&#039;t have to be impoverished to be poor.&nbsp; You can have a halfway decent job and be poor.&nbsp; The Middle Class has taken a huge hit recently.&nbsp; A lot of what were good jobs have been shipped overseas and many have never recovered from that.&nbsp; Nothing you don&#039;t know.&nbsp; My premise is that we need to build the economy so that people can get jobs that can support their families and give them a future.&nbsp; And I don&#039;t want anyone excluded from that opportunity, or one group given preference over another.&nbsp; But I do want jobs given on merit and ability, earned.&nbsp; There&#039;s a consistent theme in your writing suggesting the Right is a bunch of bigots.&nbsp; And if conservative writes something that&#039;s not consistent with your view it&#039;s a lie.&nbsp; That&#039;s lazy.&nbsp; You can do better.&nbsp; Most conservatives I know are concerned that what they achieve will be taken away from them and their families and given to those who didn&#039;t achieve.&nbsp; Wealth redistribution.&nbsp; I think there&#039;s a huge difference between the top brass of large corporations raking it in at the expense of their employees and a guy who starts a business, works very hard to make it succeed, and has some nice things because of it and is able to send his kids to school and not worry about starving in his old age.&nbsp; He not only wants to keep as much as possible of what he has earned, but wants to leave as much as possible to his kids.&nbsp; So things like estate and inheritance taxes trouble him, after all he paid income taxes his entire working life.&nbsp; You seem to want to create an utopia where everyone gets an equal slice.&nbsp; Great if it works, doesn&#039;t really.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="vantexan, post: 2907282, member: 24302"] Maybe it depends on what your definition of the "poor" is. You don't have to be impoverished to be poor. You can have a halfway decent job and be poor. The Middle Class has taken a huge hit recently. A lot of what were good jobs have been shipped overseas and many have never recovered from that. Nothing you don't know. My premise is that we need to build the economy so that people can get jobs that can support their families and give them a future. And I don't want anyone excluded from that opportunity, or one group given preference over another. But I do want jobs given on merit and ability, earned. There's a consistent theme in your writing suggesting the Right is a bunch of bigots. And if conservative writes something that's not consistent with your view it's a lie. That's lazy. You can do better. Most conservatives I know are concerned that what they achieve will be taken away from them and their families and given to those who didn't achieve. Wealth redistribution. I think there's a huge difference between the top brass of large corporations raking it in at the expense of their employees and a guy who starts a business, works very hard to make it succeed, and has some nice things because of it and is able to send his kids to school and not worry about starving in his old age. He not only wants to keep as much as possible of what he has earned, but wants to leave as much as possible to his kids. So things like estate and inheritance taxes trouble him, after all he paid income taxes his entire working life. You seem to want to create an utopia where everyone gets an equal slice. Great if it works, doesn't really. [/QUOTE]

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