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? asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 9 years ago

Why don't people learn a different perspective..?

Instead of thinking your government is Santa Clause...

Watch and learn something..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PtKo9EW3EM

Update:

No one is addressing the topics in the video. Some are whining about the source, and not listening to what's being said.

Right now BenJammin is in the running for Best Answer. and he only wrote 4 words.

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  • Anonymous
    9 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    Everyday more are.

  • 9 years ago

    The mentally and physically disabled survive only because governments are

    there to provide them with food, clothing, and shelter. You can call that a

    dependence on Santa Claus, if you want to, but I wonder what you think

    the alternatives are in your community.

    Many people are born into the wrong families, have the wrong skin color, and

    never have the opportunities to succeed that others enjoy.

    You can dismiss then as "losers", if you want to, but you don't really want

    to watch them starve to death, do you?

    Well, maybe you are one of those people who do.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    I'd say "GET a JOB" to those unemployed or on different forms of Government welfare...

    BUT...

    Like Santa Clause...

    THERE ISN'T ANY JOBS........ Or Santa Clause...

    Why?

    The self proclaimed elite alone have bought our Presidents off for over 20 years now and signed into law, NAFTA CAFTA WTO ETC... Signed into law by WJ Clinton and GW Bush...I call that one group of people "Communist Capitalists™***"

    They have paid Billions to Politicians, and made Trillions of dollars on the wage differentials between Slave Labor and American Labor over the last 20 Years...

    What will stop them? Your Vote against them who did this to America OR YOU and I working for less that the wage Communist Capitalists™*** Pays their lowest paid workers...

    *** The Communist Capitalists™ are the ones who would choose Foreign Slave Labor over their own Countries Labor JUST to Maximize their own Personal Profit Margins… Those Capitalists who remained in America using American Labor are the unsung Heroes of America***

    IMO... TTIV...

    Source(s): Source(s): Source(s): * * * To see what others fail to see is BOTH, a curse and a blessing… Telling you what no one else will tell you in the media. The truth will set you free, lies will enslave you… §† FNS †Â§
  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    http://www.ted.com/talks/ivan_krastev_can_democrac...

    People are more and more well lazy and emotional and well politicians sure feed on that. Things have become Hyper-Partisan and it's only going to screw us all over.

    Second with all the constant blasting of media and just **** in general from Television and Online resources it is everywhere and people are literally consumed by the ideologies of the political party they represent. The parties dont want them to disagree with them and the best way to do that is to try and shut them out from the rest of them.

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  • ?
    Lv 4
    9 years ago

    Ok, but if I switch perspectives, I would be almost required to believe corporations are Santa Claus. Wouldn't it be better if we didn't have Santa Claus?

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    I don't think the government is a bottomless well of susetanence, but neither can I listen to Alex Jones for 5 seconds.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    I eliminated the Santa Clause from my contract a few years ago.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Why don't the wealthy contribute to the health of the society that they derive ALL of their wealth from instead of treating the middle class as something they can write off?

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    We tried that by electing Obama...it didn't work.

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