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Isn’t the whole “gifts” thing a perfect example of the sense of entitlement that has come over the American right. When they explicitly vote for the candidate who will give them a tax cut, that’s not a gift, it’s a matter of patriotism. When Democrats vote for candidates who propose programs they benefit from, it’s a gift and bribery. It’s like the right thinks the largess they receive isn’t a gift because they are entitled to it, but Democrats are entitled to nothing and therefore receive only “gifts.”
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Why not put the whole post here – or is this just a blogwhore?
That’s the whole post.
And, that says it all! Rec’d.
A better title would be “It’s not a gift if you paid for it.”
This is the thing that drives me crazy: Americans are part of a social contract where they give their money to the government to invest so that they can use the proceeds of that investment to support themselves when they are no longer working.
Americans honored that contract. The government wants to break or modify the contract after the fact.