[OFB Cafe] Who's Still on Here?

[saki]

Fred Smith wrote:

> Both candidates are "marxists" in that they've both been on welfare
> for quite some time. We've been paying them and all the other
> government "employees" for years.   The difference, I guess, is the
> length of time that each has been on welfare.  Obama started getting
> his welfare checks in 1996, but contributed to the system with a
> series of real jobs for about 12 years before that.  McCain on the
> other hand has been on government welfare since barely graduating high
> school in 1954. McCain is also a big proponent of welfare in just
> about every form. He believes in increasing military welfare spending,
> he supports corporate welfare like mortgage and banking bail-outs, and
> even nation-wide welfare like a "gas holiday" where the government
> buys everyone discounted gas.
> 
> I say we stop paying all these bums to just sit on their asses all
> day.  Make them go out and get real jobs, and to stop living off of my
> paycheck. Obama supports that;  he wants to reduce the amount of money
> we pay out through welfare organizations like the US Army and Navy. I
> think he's a little too generous in some areas, though; he wants to
> fly all these welfare bums back from places like Iraq and Afghanistan
> and let them hang out on the streets of America draining the system
> even more. I say leave them there. Let them scrounge up enough money
> for their own flights back home by getting real jobs, and maybe
> they'll have the work ethic to be able to contribute when they get
> back.

I thought we Brits had enough problems of our own. You Americans have to 
go one better with this asinine analysis of reality!

Or are you just taking the p***, Fred Smith? A little easy satirical fun 
at "liberal thinking"'s expense?

I think the latter- surely no-one with an ounce of logic could really 
think like that!

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