Originally Posted By: whomod
So using that logic, only poor people may seek to help those who are poor?

What about FDR?

What about the Kennedy's?

LBJ?

what about philanthropists now and thru the ages??

It's kinda bullshit this argument I CONSTANTLY hear from people on the right, that if you're rich, then you must be insincere about helping poor people or you're somehow unqualified. If you use a car or have ever sat in a plane to get somewhere then anything you do concerning the environment is hypocritical.

It's as if they're trying to DISCOURAGE doing ANYTHING.

Let the status quo be, why bother? It's a head in the sand mentality and i'm pretty tired of it.
we should help the poor and we should make sure that everyone can have some kind of health insurance.....but many democrats are indeed insincere about this. Edwards is full of shit. His idea of helping the poor is to tax the hell out of and squeeze the middle class and upper middle class dry till we are all poor except for the elite super rich class that he is a part of. If politicians really cared they would star regulating how much banks could charge on mortgages.... how much apr the credit card companies could charge.......tax the hell out of the oil companies and other fortune 500 companies......put limits on much ceos bonuses are and how much they can be paid....etc. etc.



Also don't let douchebag personal injury lawyers drive up the costs of insurance premiums when they win damges that are incredibly excessive and only end up hurting the whole country specifically the little guys that they are supposedly trying to protect like Edwards did.... he's a douchbag allright! *deep breath*