Why We Must Beat Obama
Introduction
There's been a lot of talk about the list of likely Republican Presidential candidates for 2012 being disappointing. I know I'm disappointed: I see no one who I would describe as even remotely "libertarian" who is not simultaneously isolationist to the point of trying to deny the existence of the rest of the world beyond American ( Read more... )
There's been a lot of talk about the list of likely Republican Presidential candidates for 2012 being disappointing. I know I'm disappointed: I see no one who I would describe as even remotely "libertarian" who is not simultaneously isolationist to the point of trying to deny the existence of the rest of the world beyond American ( Read more... )
Take a read and see if you find it reasonable.
The Republican solution to the economy is not simply a constant cry of "tax cuts". It is a fundamental re-assessment of which government programs should and should not exist, leading to a balanced budget that can include tax cuts for the hardest-hit. Since Boehner has taken the Speaker of the House position, the House has passed no tax cuts, but plenty of program cuts.
When you're teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, you need to work on reducing your spending before you can contemplate lowering your income.
Again, if neither the Republican health plan nor their economic plan is reasonable to you, that's your call and your decision. But if you truly believe that both of them are nothing more than a "constant cry of tax cuts", then you may wish to find out what you're actually rejecting.
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People like to hammer with me that I am so selfish and self interested, things are always 'about me', but when you cannot secure your own immediate safety and health. How do you proceed with planning farther ahead? It's fairly hard to override this low level urge.
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The lawsuit reform and opening competition across state lines should lower premiums as well.
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Of course, it's perfectly reasonable to want to secure your own immediate safety and health, and it's meant to be a low-level urge. However, when I seek to secure my own immediate safety and health (and there have been times when I have needed to do so) I have never contemplated that the best and/or only way to do so is to order the government to force other people to hand it to me for free.
My attempts to secure safety/health have always involved seeing what I could do to secure these important things and who would be willing to help me of their own accord.
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Look, my medical bills tend to be on average three to four times my take home pay. That is to say, in one year, I will rack up enough medical bills to completely spend FOUR years of my income.
Exactly who am I supposed to go to get that much covered besides the government? Because I sure as heck don't know.
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I have to wonder why... Hmm, no wait, no I don't! Because I'm sure that they're big evil bigoted Republican doctors who are MEAN MEAN MEAN to transgenders and keeping them from going to whichever bathroom you want to go to. Which, by the way, I'm totally vague on. Even after your lengthy several comments replies which made no explanation to melvin_udall regarding his question as to HOW your being assaulted outside a bathroom by a bigot equates to the Republicans denying you access to said bathrooms and how that attack is a political conspiracy all created specifically to keep you in perpetual victimhood without recourse or hope ever.
And somehow, in the course of all that, you continued to get assaulted right outside or inside public restrooms, per your description. One would think that perhaps you'd learn to avoid them henceforth as potentially lethal locations where bigots hover and look to assault you.
But of course, you're going to say I completely misunderstood your strung together rationalizations and say that I'm misrepresenting what you said, while you completely avoid answering any question put to you and instead, climb on your soapbox and describe in eyewatering detail how you are oppressed and tormented ENDLESSLY ON A FEDERAL GOVERNMENT LEVEL (and I say endlessly because this is ALL YOU EVER TALK ABOUT EVERY TIME YOU'RE HERE).
This should not be a surprise, given that absolutely nothing you've described makes much logical sense, and given that you came out and actually said you're not very rational... should probably stop surprising me.
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I'm not going to dignify the rest with a response.
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Naturally you won't, since I did the you the favor of parsing it down and translating from your diatribe, cutting through the bullshit and laying it out that you haven't got facts to back up your assertions with. You're welcome, by the way.
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As to why things continue to redirect into my history, it's very, very easy to explain this.
Person X asks what it would take for me to vote Republican.
I answer
Person X asks why my answer is that.
I answer
You do this once or twice and you will hit the issue. I could accept the GOP's agenda if only for their GLBT stances. I used to vote for them fairly often. If that was dropped from the platform, I'd vote for them in a second.
Did you know I voted for Bush both times? Somehow I suspect you won't believe me on this one sadly.
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I don't really have any reason to believe you, given that you have repeatedly 1) contradicted yourself 2)outright lied 3)refuse to answer direct questions 4) never given proof of your assertions and claims. You constantly reach into events that happened ages ago and describe them as if they happened recently and use them as examples of political oppression or religious oppression of YOU when in fact, they aren't, from your own admission.
And on the very first statement you outright lied again.
Here:
In general the GOP wants to force me into the men's room for necessary matters. The last two times I tried to comply with this fact in a red state, I was assaulted. One time involved me beaten even worse than that video meme of the attack in the McDonald's. The right side of my face is partially paralyzed to this day as a result of the attack.
Yet you assert that you don't blame republicans:
No, I don't blame republicans, not directly anyway.
Yet in this thread with Melvin, you state, clearly:
The general consensus from the rightwing is that I should undergo therapy and return to living as a man. I'm pretty sure this is a negative view on my life.
Currently it is within the rights of an employer to fire me for being transsexual, it is within the rights of a landlord to evict me for being transsexual. No behaviors are necessary, simply the state of being is enough and legal.
Exactly how can they not be against me, when they oppose any efforts for equality?
So I have presented very clearly how you lie. You have personalized the issue yourself, then say 'it's not a personal hate'. Uh huh.
Further, you contradict yourself even more:
http://melvin-udall.livejournal.com/1176315.html?thread=7423483#t7423483
I am very out here on the net, but at work I tell *NO ONE*. It's no one's damned business. I'm there to work, not discuss politics or gender theory. Anything besides work gets in the way and hurts our performance. The only people that know are my managers and that's because they found out the moment they took my hiring paperwork and photo copy of my various identifications.
I had to move from Virginia to Washington state due to the lack jobs. I would get to the final stages, but soon as we started to do the HR paperwork, they'd change their minds and say something about my 'lifestyle' not suiting me for the position. Keep in mind this includes places like McDonald's and Dominos, places where all you need is the ability to nod and sport a PULSE to get hired. Of the jobs I did get in Virginia, I was ussually fired. Not for being a bad performer, but for causing such unease with religious coworkers. Four or five times I got the same sort of speech.
"Look, you're a really hard worker, but you're just one person and X, Y and Z all act negatively around you. I know it's not your own fault, but I can't fire all three of them, so I'm going to have to let you go."
I've also been evicted from two apartments, due to quirks (transpeople were specifically written out of ADA and the Fair Housing Act by Jesse Helms) I can actually be evicted faster than a drug dealer. Criminals have more rights.
If you're not open about your trans-whatever, how would anybody KNOW you're trans? But from how you phrase your victimhood, EVERYONE AND THEIR DOG KNOWS. Do you strip and dance naked, or wear a giant banner "I'M SEXUALLY MALE BUT LOOK FEMALE" or something similarly obvious? because you whine endlessly about breaking the law about going to the female bathroom, but clearly have no problems breaking the law to get your supposedly 'life sustaining drugs.' You also assert that you've been called out and had the cops sicced on you for using a bathroom, which could NOT have been done unless EVERYONE AROUND YOU knew you were intersex. But you say you're not open about it in meatspace. Hmm.
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My employers know because it shows up in my background check. It also shows up in some documentation that cannot be changed. Social Security for example cannot be modified. If you do a credit check, it shows up, if you do a simple criminal background check it will show my legal name name. How many women do you know named Richard? It becomes obvious really quick to anyone working with that paperwork. As soon as I have HR paperwork done, I am outed to my company instantly. Something like this is scandalous.
It takes a day or two for it to filter through the rank and file. Then a day or two more for people to get the gumption up to ask me out of the blue 'Have you cut your dick off yet?' in the workplace. I suppose I can thank Jerry Springer for the directness of people's questioning @_@
I don't really see any contradiction or lies in what you're trying to provide examples of here. One can be emotional, frustrated and upset with a situation without hating the people involved. Being 'against me' is not hatred. It is merely a lack of progress, lack of perspective, lack of understanding.
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