Well, now now people. Let's keep to attacking the Argument and not the Argu-er or Argu-ee.

I don't think that limiting this board is necessarily the right thing to do. I was on this board since I was just under 16 as well, and now I am 18, and I learned a lot and have taught a lot to people. Life experience is important, I will fully admit, but I must also admit that I have a very big problem in watching people take government handouts, that I cannot get, yet am forced to pay for. Now, as I am out of the military and finished my high-school, I am a full-time Factory worker and I do live with my parents and I pay for room and board, and I am saving in the mean-time to get higher education.

My entire life I have been surrounded by success, and I have watched this country I live in (which is TEN BAJILLION TIMES more socialist than any of yours) continue to tax and whip my parents and friends and loved ones who work the hardest, spend the most blood sweat and tears to live on, and all the while give OBSCENE amounts of MONEY ($$$) (Dollars, not food-stamps) to tens of thousands of very pathetic, useless, annoying squeaky wheels, who long-ago dishonored their families by deciding that they would rather become escapists and avoid their problems by taking a Federal check instead of contribute to the community, and then dishonor their families again by spending it not on food or housing repairs, but on their never-ending supplies of cheap liquor and pot. And THEN, they have the NERVE to go and yell at ME, who pays more than 60% in TAXES out of my own Godforsaken income every year, money that I will never see again, because I am JUST over that damned little bracket that signifies the "poverty-line," and they whine that their needs are not being met and that they have no "quality of life," so now they want me to pay for movies and vacations and their plasma-screen TVs??!!!?!?!!?!?!
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*Takes a Deep Breath*

It does not take much life experience to see that is a steaming PILE o' Monkey.

I went around, place to place, looking for 4 months for a job, voluntarily paying my way in my parent's house with not but the money I saved away from the Army, and I waited in the Employment center as the Stupid little students that no-doubt knew somebody that knew somebody to get that job told me day after day that "Oh, it's HARD to get a job, oh, it's so difficult to get by without the government." F*ck that Sh*T. I went and I found myself a job. Yeah, Factory work is some dirty sh!t, and you start at the bottem. But Hey, Its MY job, and I am earning $MONEY$ for it. Nobody helped me when I needed it. Nobody but ME.

In the flood of '97, the army went and helped the people on the perimeter, but they didn't help US in the city all that much in sandbagging. We did it ourselves. Thankyou Goverment once again for giving us, the people that PAY YOUR SALARY, the shaft. Damn you all.

Anyhow, I sound right now like a very hateful person, but I'm not, really. I understand that everynow and then, life craps on you, and your means to get out aren't quite enough. I know people that have had their families break apart due to drugs and alcoholism, and unfortunately they were left with nothing. They didn't need a handout to get them hooked on the system, they needed a Hand UP. Government can do this, I suppose, but then again, so can private insurance, and last but not least, the charity of your fellow man. My parents find a way to donate sums of money to 217 charities every year, in addition to the charity that they are forced to give. I'm not blowing their horn, but that is in my opinion, kind-heartened commitment. That is the kind that we need to see more of, and we need to see less of the forced kind.

All religious and charitable beliefs aside, If I am FORCED to pay into something, I BETTER get EVERY SINGLE PENNY back, or they had better think twice about stealing from me. If I voluntarily pay into something, a EXPECT to get every single penny back. Call me greedy, but fair is FAIR, and that's what its all about isn't it? what's Fair?!?

Colt is young, and he reminds me a lot of people I know, and partly myself, especially when I was new to this board. But I can at least understand his argument, especially after the experiences that I have had so far.

There are adults on this board that bring FAR more shame to the Constitutional Militiamen than Colt does. No names, but I think that deep down, most would be in agreement.

OKay, now go ahead and take your shots.