Not sure why you even choose to write a blog like that. What a waste of keyboarding. Being a pharmacist, I know you make good money. Not that President Bush has made the right calls at every juncture, but the candidate you endorse is from a party that supports income redistribution, er, taxation. I would think that your education combined with your pay stub would cause you to be a little more protective of what YOU earned and less interested in what the next fatty on welfare who comes into your pharmacy with a nicer cell phone and $0.00 copay can reap from your hard work.This is trick #1 in the Republican playbook my friends. Allow me to translate from Republican-talk to English:
Drugmonkey, you make a valid point about the war in Iraq, and how the people who started it are in no way prepared to make any of the sacrifices they ask of others. I can offer nothing to counter the actual point you made, so therefore I will write condescendingly about a topic never mentioned in the actual post I am pretending to react to. The condescending, fact-free manner of my writing will allow me to feel intelligent without the downside risk of being proven wrong.
Republicans use this maneuver often, thinking they can catch you off guard by pretending the subject they pulled out of their ass is the same one you were talking about. They also love to use the mythical fat welfare recipient who somehow lives a better live than you as a trump card. The fact we've pissed away twice as many dollars in the pointless Iraq war as we spend on the entire medicaid system never sinks into their heads. The only function of the federal government in their eyes is providing money to fat people with ipods. They are blind to the army, the navy, the coast guard, the national parks, the Food and Drug Adminstration, the interstate highway system, and air traffic controllers. They seem to think the only people to whom the federal government has ever paid a dime are overweight and unemployed.
They also ignore the fact that people on welfare get a lot less after Bill Clinton reformed the system in 1996.
They ignore it because it stands in the way of their hate. Republicans have to have someone to kick down so they can be assured they are not on the bottom.
I prefer to kick up. At the bastards who started this war. Kick up at the people who make it impossible for a single working mother to get decent day care so she can start to make her way past all the bootheels being aimed at her jaw. Kick up at the forces that pay me $1.50 to fill a $175 dollar prescription.
Your enemies are not below you my friends. Your hatred properly directed should flow upwards.
