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The biggest thing conservatives need to stop saying is what liberals think. Every single time some conservative talks about what I say or believe, they get it wrong. This list does nothing more than make the OP look ignorant on the topic he made the thread about...
"Deficits don't matter." -- Dick Cheney
I see arguments in this list all the time. I know you liberals are well meaning and have the best interest of the country at heart. We disagree on what is best for the country and I welcome that debate. But, when you engage in the following practices, I’m not going to listen to you.
1. Racist! – Racist, sexist, homophobe and any other divisive terminology has to stop. People are not spending their days looking for ways to suppress minorities. The only group attempting to suppress anyone is you. You attack people for disagreeing with you and take part in these mindless name calling games. We get that you have a problem with dissenting viewpoints. Now, do the right thing, skip the name calling and come help us try to govern a country.
2. The Earth is Warming! – Ok, yes, the Earth is warming. But let’s be real. We don’t KNOW why. Know is the key word. We have a hypothesis that is accepted by many, but it is not a rule or law of physics or climate science.
3. Deficits don’t matter. – Yes, yes they do...Deficits matter
The 1% is needs to pay their fair share! – They do. They pay higher effective tax rates than anyone in the country, except for corporations (we will get to them next).
Here we gowhen you engage in the following practices, I’m not going to listen to you.
No problem. Just stop everyone from being a being racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic....Racist! – Racist, sexist, homophobe and any other divisive terminology has to stop.
Yes, we do. The evidence is overwhelming that human activity is responsible for a great deal of climate change. And no, sniping about science you don't understand does not disprove what we know.The Earth is Warming! – Ok, yes, the Earth is warming. But let’s be real. We don’t KNOW why.
Sorry, but that is sheer nonsense. The Fed is not printing up money to pay for deficits, or to make debt cheaper.As the deficit increases our government is forced to devalue our currency to make it easier to eliminate the debt that they just can’t pay off.
Yet more nonsense. The middle class is getting railed by, including but not limited to:Deficits are destroying the middle class and preventing the poor from making progress.
Yes, some extremists blame the rich; nothing new there. However, there is no question whatsoever that giving the wealthy massive tax cuts for the past ~40 years has exacerbated both wealth and income inequality, which in turn tilts the system in favor of the wealthy, and that's not good.The 1% is needs to pay their fair share! – They do...
If you say so.Corporations are evil because…. – This one is so diverse and so misguided.
Everyone realizes that radical Islamists are a major problem. Other than that, there are the usual mistakes, e.g.:Radical Islam isn’t the problem and Christians do it to. – Yes, Radical Islam is the problem and no Christians are not flying aircraft into building... etc
And yet, advanced nations around the world subsidize health care and secondary education, often with equal or better outcomes than in the US. Who'da thunk it?It should be free. – It can be anything from Healthcare (it is one word people…ONE WORD) to college. Nothing is free.
If you say soThe Constitution says “provide for the general welfare” so we can do whatever we think is good for the country. – Wrong. Absolutely, 100% wrong.
So you're offended that someone else is offended? LOLIt is a micro-aggression. – Oh just grow up. Why do you have to be so offended by everything?
I'd be careful with that one if I were you. You don't wanna get caught by the Vegan Police.I’m vegan and you should be to! – Ok, maybe so. But I don’t want to be. So stop banning/taxing foods that I like.
From #1: "We get that you have a problem with dissenting viewpoints. Now, do the right thing, skip the name calling and come help us try to govern a country."
Ignorant or predictive? Predictive.
I see arguments in this list all the time. I know you liberals are well meaning and have the best interest of the country at heart. We disagree on what is best for the country and I welcome that debate. But, when you engage in the following practices, I’m not going to listen to you.
1. Racist! – Racist, sexist, homophobe and any other divisive terminology has to stop. People are not spending their days looking for ways to suppress minorities. The only group attempting to suppress anyone is you. You attack people for disagreeing with you and take part in these mindless name calling games. We get that you have a problem with dissenting viewpoints. Now, do the right thing, skip the name calling and come help us try to govern a country.
2. The Earth is Warming! – Ok, yes, the Earth is warming. But let’s be real. We don’t KNOW why. Know is the key word. We have a hypothesis that is accepted by many, but it is not a rule or law of physics or climate science. The Earth has been warming for thousands of years before man came along. In fact, had the Earth not warmed, we couldn’t live here. Understand, we can’t eliminate carbon output. It can’t be done. Nor should we cause millions of people to suffer from the economic destruction that is part of the Global Warming agenda. We can put together incentives to drive innovation towards cleaner energy. But nothing will be perfect. Stop belittling everyone that doesn’t believe in your hypothesis and creating grand conspiracies to account for dissention.
3. Deficits don’t matter. – Yes, yes they do. As the deficit increases our government is forced to devalue our currency to make it easier to eliminate the debt that they just can’t pay off. For the average person, that means our income may increase, but the buying power decreases. That is why you are seeing more and more middle class people living like they are in poverty. Deficits are destroying the middle class and preventing the poor from making progress. Deficits matter.
4. The 1% needs to pay their fair share! – They do. They pay higher effective tax rates than anyone in the country, except for corporations (we will get to them next). This movement that portends that the rich are to blame for all of society’s ills is using that false logic to try the rich in the court of public opinion and get a conviction of monetary remuneration without a trial and without allowing the rich to present one iota of evidence. That is as un-American as it gets. If the rich are truly guilty of harming society, then they need to be brought up on charges and given a day in court to defend their actions. We wouldn’t do this to any other groups based on a single factor like income. Can you imagine putting a bill in congress that requires all white Judeo-Christian men to pay a retribution tax? Of course not….well maybe you can. But the rest of us know that it is wrong. The rich are not to blame for everything you find wrong with America and it is not American to find them guilty of these ills without a trial.
That is a blatantly racist statement.
The biggest thing conservatives need to stop saying is what liberals think. Every single time some conservative talks about what I say or believe, they get it wrong. This list does nothing more than make the OP look ignorant on the topic he made the thread about...
Are you trying to compile a list of things conservatives need to stop saying?liberals are brainwashed and/or greedy. they want you to work to provide for them. they want you disarmed so they can steal from you. so they can kill you. liberalism is a disease. the left has done nothing but destroy societies which allow it to seize power. it can happen here. don't let it.
MOST of us don't use the blanket accusation. Some do, but most don't. Please don't broad-brush-paint the many with the actions of a few. Likewise, we can say the same thing about the name-calling that comes from the Right: Socialist, communist, statist, nanny-state liberal, "Godless liberals" (courtesy of Ann Coulter), etc. I think you must agree that there's LOTS of blame to go around.
And one more thing - read up on Nixon's Southern Strategy sometime. Consider what the plan was...and how its unintended consequences have led to what we see in racial politics today. Most conservatives are NOT racist...but as a direct result of Nixon's adaptation of that "Southern Strategy", much of your politics is informed by the influence that the Deep South's "negrophobes" (yes, that's what the plan called them) have wielded on the GOP since the 1970's.
Sir, we DO know why the Earth is warming. Yeah, AGW is a "theory"...but gravity itself is a theory, too. Yeah, we can never eliminate carbon output, but does that somehow require that we shouldn't keep from outputting too much? Of course not. To make it simple, look at the output from cars alone. Let's say each car has on average a fifteen-gallon tank, and that each tank is filled up about once a week? Is that reasonable? I think so. Now bear in mind that for every 8-pound-or-so gallon of gas that is burned, 20 pounds of CO2 is created. YES, 8 pounds of gasoline becomes 20 pounds of atmospheric CO2 - that's simple chemistry.
NOW multiply that 20 pounds of CO2 by 15 gallons of gas per car, times 52 gas-tank fill-ups per year (once a week, remember)...and THEN multiply that total by the half billion automobiles we have operating worldwide every single doggone day. In other words, our world's cars alone are pumping several gigatonnes of CO2 into the air every year...and that's not counting the output from the world's factories, trains, industrial plants, military vehicles, ships of every type, and aircraft.
And this is ALL from a source of CO2 with which our planet's climate has never before had to contend. In other words, how can you not see that yeah, human civilization IS warming our planet?
I love threads that instantly fail . . .
what country are you from? That sucks that stuff happens in your country but it doesnt happen here on any large scale especially the way you describe it. LMAO
Any Thread that starts out by grouping liberals, conservatives, dems, repubs, righties, lefties, christians, muslims etc etc together as a whole is an an instant fail and bound to be based on biased, hypocritical, dishonest retarded illogical nonsense and this original POST in this thread. Good lord that was a lot of crying about others crying HILARIOUS!!!!
A perfect example of dishonesty and hypocrisy,.
thanks for that laugh and huge failure.
"Deficits don't matter." Who said that? Was it a Democrat or a liberal? No. It was Dick Cheney. But for some reason, y'all love blaming us for deficits.
If you'll check, the federal deficit skyrocketed under Reagan, Bush 41 got it somewhat under control, and it went down under Clinton to the point that it became a surplus. Bush 43 slashed taxes (like Reagan did), and bye-bye went the surplus. Obama took over during the worst economic recession in 80 years and our deficit became accordingly astronomical in 2009 (which, btw, was the last year for which Bush 43 submitted a budget). Since 2009, Obama's cut the deficit in half.
But y'all still want to blame us for the deficits.
So why, then, did Warren Buffet famously point out that he pays a lower percentage of his income in taxes than does his secretary? Those who are rich can and do use high-powered accountants to pay as little as possible...and if you'll check, ever since Reagan took office, the income of the rich has skyrocketed...whereas the income of the middle- and lower classes has barely budged. If requiring the rich to pay higher taxes is so terrible for them, then why is their income increasing at such a higher pace than that of middle- and lower classes?
And when it comes to corporations, if you'll check, many of our largest corporations pay ZERO taxes - thanks to all the loopholes and deductions, they pay FAR less in taxes than most conservatives seem to think. To give you your due, if all we look at is the nominal rate, you're absolutely right! BUT if we look at their taxes after loopholes and deductions, our EFFECTIVE corporate tax rate is one of the lowest in the developed world. Get rid of the loopholes and deductions, and THEN we'll be happy to talk about cutting the nominal tax rate.
Here we go
No problem. Just stop everyone from being a being racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic....
"Deficits don't matter." -- Dick Cheney
People are not spending their days looking for ways to suppress minorities. .
This list does nothing more than make the OP look ignorant on the topic he made the thread about...
I did not call you names, I commented on what you posted. It was ignorant. And the little chunk you quote here is highly hypocritical in a thread you made telling people to stop disagreeing with you.
I added your original quote just so you could prove yourself wrong.
Here is an off the wall idea: if you want to know what liberals think, why not ask them, instead of telling them, and then saying they can't have those views?
Ha! Because your side does exactly the same thing and I'm playing the part of a liberal using conservative ideals to show your hypocrisy. Just to show you my inspiration: Ten Things White People Need To Quit Saying
So, just out of curiosity, why are liberals banned from using a word you do not hesitate to use? Hypocrisy much?
Designed hypocrisy. I had a purpose in this whole thread.
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