The Tea Party is American Fascism.

[Dinner]

My catastrophe is important....... yours is not.

Yet another example of folks that typically support the "close the government down; close it all down" crowd and how the people they send to congress don't like to vote "yes' when it comes to providing relief to others in other parts of the country (remember Sandy). Now that they've shut the govt. down, it seems like that old shoe is on their foot.

Blizzard ravages South Dakota's livestock industry

These days, Reder passes a federal Farm Services Administration office whose doors are closed. Like most American ranchers, the 47-year-old is a resilient small businessman used to tending to his own problems, with help from neighbors whose families settled this land generations ago.

Still, he's frustrated and feels that federal lawmakers have turned their backs on the nation's heartland in a time of need.

"We're just a bunch of ranchers from South Dakota — it's hard for our voices to be heard," he said, sitting at the kitchen table at dawn Friday, drinking coffee, fielding calls from fellow cattlemen. "You see crises across the country, the hurricanes and tornadoes, and officials are right on top of it. But something of this magnitude, that has just about leveled this part of the country, and there's nothing."

Many residents in this conservative region had supported the government shutdown as a way to make Washington more fiscally responsible. "But one appropriate role for these guys is to lend a hand after disasters like this," Christen said, "and they're not here."

Blizzard ravages South Dakota's livestock industry - latimes.com

[Dinner]

Kinda like when GOP legislators voted for Oklahoma to get federal disaster aid but not Hurricane Sandy victims to get the same.

"Because that's different."

Conservatives love to cut services until they need them.

[Sava]

The liberals' problem is that they care. Overwhelmingly, government benefits people in rural (and thus conservative) states. Those states are the takers. The cities are the makers.

At some point, I think maybe we should just stop caring and let all those toothless hillbillies wallow in their own ****.

[Ben Kenobi]

Ben should worship American liberals. We're the ones that allow him to exist. If the other side had its way, he'd have no rights whatsoever. But they wouldn't kill him outright. They'd just deport his ass.

Right. I'd not be here if American and Canadian Liberals ruled the day. I'd have ended up aborted in a trash can after a prenatal diagnosis of a hearing defect. American and Canadian liberals can KMA.

I'm very lucky that prenatal diagnosis for my hearing condition didn't exist when I was born.

[Dinner]

Right. I'd not be here if American and Canadian Liberals ruled the day.

You heard it, folks. Vote for liberals so Ben will leave the country.

[Ben Kenobi]

The liberals' problem is that they care.

About who? They support abortion (killing the unborn because they are inconvenient). They support euthanasia (killing old and sick people because they are inconvenient). They support income taxation to steal money from those who do work to support their own causes. They are against private charities, private business, private schools, private anything.

Who exactly do liberals 'care' about? Themselves?

[Ben Kenobi]

Vote for liberals so Ben will leave the country.

Did you miss the rest of what I wrote? I would have been aborted.

[Ben Kenobi]

They'd just deport his ass.

Umm, why? I'm friends with Tea party folks. They really really like me. They think I should get asylum from Canada.

[MRT144]

Man, my life has vastly improved since ignoring Ben.

[Dinner]

This is what TMM posted and what DD claimed was a riot. Now, those people were scumbags basically trying to steal from the store by committing fraud but this isn't most people on food stamps; just one ghetto area full of low class people.

[Ben Kenobi]

Now, those people were scumbags basically trying to steal from the store by committing fraud but this isn't most people on food stamps; just one ghetto area full of low class people

Isn't that racist?

[Berzerker]

Yeah. We call you stupid... because you say stupid things. We don't use the government to try to punish you for being stupid... like conservatives do.

liberal pols tried to punish chick filet by blocking expansion of the business because the owner's speech was deemed unacceptable

[Dinner]

Isn't that racist?

It's not discribing a race but a social class and a mentality. Thus the fraud and theft. Yes, as TMM pointed out this is a problem but, no, it isn't a black problem so much as a mental state of mind which could effect any person in the same situation. I do find it disturbing.

[Dinner]

liberal pols tried to punish chick filet by blocking expansion of the business because the owner's speech was deemed unacceptable

I don't finding it surprising that politicians grand stand on issues which will get them votes especially since the target was such an easy target; namely a really bigoted owner of a crappy fast food company. He put a big target on his forehead and then whined when people took shots at the target he put on himself.

[PLATO]

The liberals' problem is that they care. Overwhelmingly, government benefits people in rural (and thus conservative) states. Those states are the takers. The cities are the makers.

At some point, I think maybe we should just stop caring and let all those toothless hillbillies wallow in their own ****.

I think liberals do care. The problem is that they see themselves and their ideas (i.e. "everything government") as the solution to the problem. True conservatives see government's role as providing the opportunity and environment for people to solve their own problems.

That being said, there are a lot of "so called conservatives" that have co-opted conservatism to push regressive, anti-gay, racist, and exclusionary agendas. It is equally true though that a lot of liberals have co-opted the democratic party to push intrusive and restrictive policies that limit the individuals incentives to find their own solutions.

As far as the "toothless hillbillies" not getting any government aid...I am all for that. Just make sure it doesn't come with the government restrictions to what they can do as well.

So...I sound like an anarchist? Well, not really. My point is that government is necessary, but it is trying to fulfill more of a role than it should. Government's role to me is not to mandate most things...it is to provide the environment and incentive for people to be able to make good choices.

There really is a sound philosophy behind this. The problem is that liberals are so convinced that their's is the only solution that they are to pig headed to listen to anything else.