I do not see any parallels between the ant and the conservative ..Conservative folk in my opinion seem to judge others much more harsher then they judge themselves...They seem to forget those that helped them along the way,but, yet expect the down trodden to do it on their own...and in my opinion the conservative feel that those that get help are not worthing of the helping hand they get....
Steve said:I do not see any parallels between the ant and the conservative ..Conservative folk in my opinion seem to judge others much more harsher then they judge themselves...They seem to forget those that helped them along the way,but, yet expect the down trodden to do it on their own...and in my opinion the conservative feel that those that get help are not worthing of the helping hand they get....
and do you just base that on here, or do you check a persons' party affiliation before you judge them?
If it is based on this Political web site,.. you need to get out more..
Most of US have helped other... but if we "told about all we do"... it would be bragging...
but just to show how wrong you are... I'm going to brag*...
This weekend.. and for the last several weeks I have been involved in a "project"
yesterday and last night we raised
$551 for world hunger...
$1079 for Volunteers in Medicine..
and while the total is not in.. over $2200 for a local family living in a shelter Homeless program..
and several hundred in pledges for the local food pantry...
I played a troll... and hobbled up to the stage... turned into a rock and then scrambled away... my knees still hurt, but I'll get over it..
add that into getting together prizes from every one who owed (past tense now) me a favor...
My wife made up two prize baskets herself .. and I run the ticket sales... if some one comes back a little short,.. I take the money out of my pocket to make the books balance...
add in several hundred in in cash and prize donations and alot of running around and time...
I thought it was worth it...to help those in need....
but then again as a conservative... I must not fit your stereotype...
*intent was not to brag, Nor to belittle.
Merry Christmas...
Steve said:I do not see any parallels between the ant and the conservative ..Conservative folk in my opinion seem to judge others much more harsher then they judge themselves...They seem to forget those that helped them along the way,but, yet expect the down trodden to do it on their own...and in my opinion the conservative feel that those that get help are not worthing of the helping hand they get....
and do you just base that on here, or do you check a persons' party affiliation before you judge them?
If it is based on this Political web site,.. you need to get out more..
Most of US have helped other... but if we "told about all we do"... it would be bragging...
but just to show how wrong you are... I'm going to brag*...
This weekend.. and for the last several weeks I have been involved in a "project"
yesterday and last night we raised
$551 for world hunger...
$1079 for Volunteers in Medicine..
and while the total is not in.. over $2200 for a local family living in a shelter Homeless program..
and several hundred in pledges for the local food pantry...
I played a troll... and hobbled up to the stage... turned into a rock and then scrambled away... my knees still hurt, but I'll get over it..
add that into getting together prizes from every one who owed (past tense now) me a favor...
My wife made up two prize baskets herself .. and I run the ticket sales... if some one comes back a little short,.. I take the money out of my pocket to make the books balance...
add in several hundred in in cash and prize donations and alot of running around and time...
I thought it was worth it...to help those in need....
but then again as a conservative... I must not fit your stereotype...
*intent was not to brag, Nor to belittle.
Merry Christmas...
PS I never asked for anyone's story of proof,I feel a man knows when he does right and wrong..
Steve said:NoNothingPS I never asked for anyone's story of proof,I feel a man knows when he does right and wrong..
So if I just said,... No your wrong, you would have just accepted that I was right... :wink:
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I do not see any parallels between the ant and the conservative ..Conservative folk in my opinion seem to judge others much more harsher then they judge themselves...They seem to forget those that helped them along the way,but, yet expect the down trodden to do it on their own...and in my opinion the conservative feel that those that get help are not worthing of the helping hand they get....
As far as your question goes,it is a moot point...I never wrote my post towards you
In the end the right people still get help...
Steve said:I expect the down-trodden to lift themselves up with help.. if they want to stay down... not my problem...
I am a conservative .. your wrong.. Your opinion was general and attacked "conservatives".. it painted a broad brush... Since I am a conservative, I responded with an example to show how wrong you were...
as a liberal it appeared you didn't like your portrayal as the grasshopper..tough... do something to make your life better and then you to could support many causes..
Moral of the story might be
"Liberals don't want to support their causes,..they want to force conservatives to support them"...
The best help you can give some one is the ability to be independent,.. and to stand on their own feet... then at some time they could help others...
That is the gift that was given to me... and I pray I can pass it along...
It always seems ok to trash anything liberal here,but if a so called liberal leaves a negative post against the conservative way,
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be warm and well fed while others are cold and starving.
CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. America is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so? Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper, and everybody cries when they sing, "It's Not Easy Being Green." Jesse Jackson stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news stations film the group singing, "We shall overcome." Jesse then has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's sake.
Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.
Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity and Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer! The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the government.
Hillary gets her old law firm to represent the grasshopper in a defamation suit against the ant, and the case is tried before a panel of federal judges that Bill Clinton appointed from a list of single-parent welfare recipients. The ant loses the case.
The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the government house he is in, which just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around him because he doesn't maintain it.
The ant has disappeared in the snow. The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the once peaceful neighborhood.
MORAL OF THE STORY:
Be careful how you vote in 2008!
lyric said:I am a democrat. I am against gun control
lyric said:I am a democrat. I completly appreciate the stories in the ant and grasshopper posts.
lyric said:Have been accused of being a closet republican
backhoeboogie said:lyric said:I am a democrat. I am against gun control
Isn't that an oxymoron?
lyric said:I am a democrat. I completly appreciate the stories in the ant and grasshopper posts.
I am starting to see a pattern develop here.
lyric said:Have been accused of being a closet republican
That would start to make sense to me.
Lyric, there is hope for you. I don't think you need to be all that concerned with what a liberal is. I can only hope there are more demo folks like you out there. Looking forward to reading more of your words.