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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: knighttof3   😊 😞
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Subject: What sticks in my gullet
Date: 08/03/24 7:40 AM
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Is that Democrats think my money is theirs to use as they see fit. It really is not, it's mainly to feed and house my family, educate my kids, save for retirement, maybe go on a vacation with the wife, and so on. But Democrats make it impossible because they want to spend spend spend spend spend spend. The road to Hell is paved with Dems' good intentions.

This is why I have mixed feelings about Trump. It's all about the pocketbook. Of course he is a racist Fascist lying pig. But he gave me a tax cut. Biden instead gave "free" money to elite college-educated liberals too dumb or too privileged to know that you have to pay out of your own damn pockets for nice things. Not me. What is so hard to understand? Can't afford college? Get grades good enough for a scholarship or don't go. That is real life. Sorry.

Other than that I would totally be a Democrat. Every Republican who wants to deny a woman an abortion, should be forced to carry a watermelon in their stomach for 9 months and then "deliver" it through you know what without anesthetic.
Homosexuality is natural. Animals do it, and we are animals. Absolutely irrelevant to heterosexuals' life experience or to morality or to propagation of species. If the Bible had not condemned it, nobody would care.

All in all, Dems are kind caring people. Republicans are fearful angry hate mongers. And yet. Every government throughout history has had to do a balancing act between Ayn Rand and Karl Marx (even before they existed and crystallized the two extremes) and Dems definitely are too far towards Mr Marx than I, or any normal person, would like (generalizing a little).

Pay your bills, adults. No society can survive long with a permanent moocher class, be the moochers rich or poor.

(I realize that Bush Jr's crony capitalism gave a trillion dollars to rich bankers so they could keep their four houses and five mistresses, I am not happy about that either. Or the carried interest loophole that both parties somehow cannot get completely rid of. Mysterious how that happens, while I pay taxes on taxes since SALT is limited to 10K.)
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