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Noel
Like most liberals you have taken my words and twisted them to suit your agenda.

I guess you missed the part where I said Handicapped persons need help and should get help. Or the part where I said everyone, including me, should pay their fair share. Of course my "Fair Share" is supposed to be the same as someone else's "fair share". But liberals don't believe that. They think folks that earn more than they do should have to pay more.

As far as taxes go. Well IMHO someone who pays 20 percent of there income is paying their fair share. It is a lie that millionaires don't pay more taxes than their employees. The IRS has given a number of about 19 percent for the top earners as the amount they pay. That means a person who makes 200 Million pays about 40 million in taxes. Liberals don't think that's enough. I don't agree. I think 40 million is a hell of a lot of money. That comes to about 4000 of me. It takes about 4000 people like me to equal the amount that one person pays.
And liberals don't think it's enough.

I am not a millionaire, I'm not even a thousandaire. I'm a retired carpenter who never made much more than I needed to pay my bills and buy a few toys.
I'm on fixed income. I don't consider myself a parasite, It MY money.
I am also a veteran. Through the luck of the draw I went to Germany for my tour while a few of my friends went to Vietnam. One came home in a box. Another came home with a damaged mind. I still mourn them. So don't you dare mention military service and sacrifice to me and say I don't care about the men and women who serve and die for your right to express your opinion. Whether I agree or not I won't lump you as "Your Kind".

That we need to protect our environment is a given. I am a Hunter and I like to fish. I was in favor of the free flow of the river initiative that eliminates Dams that are no longer needed to produce electricity. Unfortunately it hasn't been completely successful. It also pisses me off when I see what people do to the environment. I was a land owner in Michigan with river frontage and, believe me, the crap I use to find on my river bank and property was disgusting. You know who put the trash there. The same lazy assholes who sit around and wait for someone else to feed them.

I am NOT against drilling for oil on our own soil. I AM for drilling for Oil responsibly. Liberals don't want us to do anything that might change the landscape or even hint at developing our resources, Then they show up on the sidewalk of Wall Street and whine about the cost of their Gasoline.

I ran a business. I had one rule. I paid my employees first. As a result there were many weeks I didn't get paid. I also paid them well.
But It cost me about $34.00 an hour to put $15.00 per hour person on the job. The rest was overhead and most of that was taxes. Taxes in one form or another.
I went out of business because of two things. The economy and the IRS. That's right. My fair share put me out of business. When I closed my doors 6 people became unemployed. But I was paying my "Fair Share". Until I couldn't pay it any more.

So I have been in the shoes of the poor and the middle class. I am somewhere in between now.
I am against handouts. If you want to eat you should earn the food.
In other words; You don't work...You don't eat.

That doesn't say; if you CAN'T work.... you don't eat.

There is a difference. But liberals want to take the two quotes and make them the same.
That's the difference between us.

As far as the percentage of people who are the lazy parasites versus the people who are the rich parasites. Well I can say for certain. I do not personally know a single rich parasite but I do know quite a few Lazy parasites.