What Do You Think?
I came across this post on a website I tend to frequent. I am not sure if the woman wrote it herself (if so, she's a good writer), but it caused some debate. Although I can see how one would think the idea behind it to be clever, I don' t really like what it implies:
A young woman was about to finish her first year of college. Like a lot of others her age, she considered herself to be a liberal Democrat, and was very much in favor of the redistribution of wealth.
She was deeply ashamed of her father, who was a staunch Republican, a feeling she openly expressed. Based on the lectures that she had participated in, and the occasional chat with a professor, she felt that her father had for years harbored an evil, selfish desire to keep what he thought should be his.
One day she was challenging her father on his opposition to higher taxes on the rich and the addition of more government welfare programs.
He responded by asking her how she was doing in school. Taken aback, she answered rather proudly that she had a 4.0 GPA and let him know it was tough to maintain, insisting that she was taking a very difficult course load and was constantly studying, which left her no time to go out and party like other people she knew.
Her father listened and then asked, "How is your friend Audrey doing? She replied, "Audrey is barely getting by. All she takes are easy classes. She never studies and she barely has a 2.0 GPA. She always goes to the parties on & off campus and lots of times she doesn't even show up for classes because she's hung over."
Her father asked her, "Why don't you go to the Dean's office and ask him to deduct 1.0 off your 4.0 GPA and give it to your friend who only has a 2.0. That way you will both have 3.0 GPA and certainly that would be a fair and equal distribution of GPA."
The daughter, visibly shocked by her father's suggestion, angrily fired back, "That wouldn't be fair! I've worked really hard for my grades! I've invested a lot of time and a lot of hard work while Audrey has done next to nothing toward her degree. She played while I worked my tail off!"
Her father smiled, and said gently, "Welcome to the Republican Party."
One person replied to her post, "I have to disagree with the logic here. You seem to be implying that those that aren't wealthy aren't hard workers..that they are all slackers. It would be nice to live in a world in which your income matched your effort. But it isn't that simplistic. There are wealthy people that do nothing but party all the time (think Paris Hilton) and there are poor people who work long shifts of physically demanding manual labor...these people barely make enough to get by and finding something better is not impossible, but nearly so."
I couldn't agree with this person more. It might feel good to be a Republican and joke about "those damn, lazy ass Democrats" but the truth of the matter is that reality just isn't that black and white. Further, and in reversal, reality is not that black and white when Democrats joke about those "damn, heartless Republicans," either.
In agreeing with the person's comment two paragraphs above this one, there were many times during my internship in the hospital where I clearly saw what she was talking about. As an intern in medical case management, I did a lot of work with the "self-pays" that came there to the private hospital. I will never forget this one patient whom I was interviewing. He was the type of person whom, I would assume, most people would assume would vote on the democratic ticket. During the interview, in discussing resources, the man broke down and began crying hysertically. Asking him what he was thinking about, he told me that he was working three jobs before being hospitalized and that he was worried he was going to lose time, money, and his jobs. This filtered into his fears of not being able to put food on the table for his family. It was a really troubling situation.
The fact of the matter was that I had seen many other people in situations very similar to his -- people who were actually working their behinds off yet barely making it. Believe it or not, this is actually a widespread societal problem that is often, sadly, pushed away to the side as being one big, hopeless sob story.
Sometimes there are so many barriers in society (particularly within a capitalistic economy) that, whether one be born into them or stopped by them somewhere along the road, it is almost impossible to get around them without some form of help. And, sometimes, even when there is help, it is still never, ever enough...
And that's no joke.
A young woman was about to finish her first year of college. Like a lot of others her age, she considered herself to be a liberal Democrat, and was very much in favor of the redistribution of wealth.
She was deeply ashamed of her father, who was a staunch Republican, a feeling she openly expressed. Based on the lectures that she had participated in, and the occasional chat with a professor, she felt that her father had for years harbored an evil, selfish desire to keep what he thought should be his.
One day she was challenging her father on his opposition to higher taxes on the rich and the addition of more government welfare programs.
He responded by asking her how she was doing in school. Taken aback, she answered rather proudly that she had a 4.0 GPA and let him know it was tough to maintain, insisting that she was taking a very difficult course load and was constantly studying, which left her no time to go out and party like other people she knew.
Her father listened and then asked, "How is your friend Audrey doing? She replied, "Audrey is barely getting by. All she takes are easy classes. She never studies and she barely has a 2.0 GPA. She always goes to the parties on & off campus and lots of times she doesn't even show up for classes because she's hung over."
Her father asked her, "Why don't you go to the Dean's office and ask him to deduct 1.0 off your 4.0 GPA and give it to your friend who only has a 2.0. That way you will both have 3.0 GPA and certainly that would be a fair and equal distribution of GPA."
The daughter, visibly shocked by her father's suggestion, angrily fired back, "That wouldn't be fair! I've worked really hard for my grades! I've invested a lot of time and a lot of hard work while Audrey has done next to nothing toward her degree. She played while I worked my tail off!"
Her father smiled, and said gently, "Welcome to the Republican Party."
One person replied to her post, "I have to disagree with the logic here. You seem to be implying that those that aren't wealthy aren't hard workers..that they are all slackers. It would be nice to live in a world in which your income matched your effort. But it isn't that simplistic. There are wealthy people that do nothing but party all the time (think Paris Hilton) and there are poor people who work long shifts of physically demanding manual labor...these people barely make enough to get by and finding something better is not impossible, but nearly so."
I couldn't agree with this person more. It might feel good to be a Republican and joke about "those damn, lazy ass Democrats" but the truth of the matter is that reality just isn't that black and white. Further, and in reversal, reality is not that black and white when Democrats joke about those "damn, heartless Republicans," either.
In agreeing with the person's comment two paragraphs above this one, there were many times during my internship in the hospital where I clearly saw what she was talking about. As an intern in medical case management, I did a lot of work with the "self-pays" that came there to the private hospital. I will never forget this one patient whom I was interviewing. He was the type of person whom, I would assume, most people would assume would vote on the democratic ticket. During the interview, in discussing resources, the man broke down and began crying hysertically. Asking him what he was thinking about, he told me that he was working three jobs before being hospitalized and that he was worried he was going to lose time, money, and his jobs. This filtered into his fears of not being able to put food on the table for his family. It was a really troubling situation.
The fact of the matter was that I had seen many other people in situations very similar to his -- people who were actually working their behinds off yet barely making it. Believe it or not, this is actually a widespread societal problem that is often, sadly, pushed away to the side as being one big, hopeless sob story.
Sometimes there are so many barriers in society (particularly within a capitalistic economy) that, whether one be born into them or stopped by them somewhere along the road, it is almost impossible to get around them without some form of help. And, sometimes, even when there is help, it is still never, ever enough...
And that's no joke.
posted by Holly at 10:00 PM
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As posted on my blog site,
My issues with Democrats are based more on moral and spiritual issues than anything else. During the last 20 years, the Democratic Party has become a breeding ground for the anti-God and anti-American cross-section of the American people. Below are key topics to back these claims:
1. Abortion. Routinely hiding behind the slogan of the 'right to choose', Democrats systematically support the slaughter of untold numbers of babies thoughout the country. The popular verbage used in abortion issues is that 'it should be accepted practice when the mother's life is in danger'. This situation is a falsehood and should never be accepted in consideration of this barbarous act. If a woman's life is ever in danger, or is even minorly inconvenienced in today's world, the doctor will give a C-section to her. C-sections are rapidly becoming doctors' perferred method of delivering babies because it
keeps their work schedule from interfering with their tee times on the golf course. Over 25% of all births today are c-sections. If you are a Bible-believing Christian, then you can and should have searched the Scriptures to know that God has created each and everyone of us and has a unique and special plan for each of our lives. Jeremiah 1:5 states "Before I
formed you in the womb I knew you; Before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations." Each and
every one of us has that same assurance from God; he is not a respecter of persons.
2. Prayer in public schools. These self-proclaimed 'defenders of the common man' are eager to jump on any law or organization taking away any citizen's liberty, as long as it doesn't have anything to do with God. When it does, they won't touch the issue with a ten-foot pole. More worried about equal rights, the Democrat Party hypocritically ignores the rights of the largest religious group within the nation (i.e Christians) to pander to the few (i.e. Athiests).
3. Tax laws. Democrats continually want to punish wealthy business leaders and entreprenuers with excessive tax rates because
they are successful. Instead of charging an even percentage of taxes across all income levels, Democrats want to gouge the movers and shakers of this nation with excessive regressive taxation.
4. Anti-American Sentiment. Democrats claim to be 'pro-America' and supportive of the troops, yet they take every opportunity to devalue and disenchant the active duty soldiers in any avenue possible. From dishonoring the President during
nearly every state of the Union address, to broadcasting outright lies concerning overall American support for the War on Terror, liberals have done their hardest to discredit the president and make US soldiers believe that Americans are not supporting their missions overseas.
5. Same-sex marriage. Again, these self-proclaimed 'defenders of the common man' are eager to jump on any issue that is against God's Word to pander to the few (i.e. Homosexuals). They routinely ignore the desires of the majority of Americans to promote agendas that either bring them political support of special interest groups or justify their own immoral behavior. Justifying their own immoral behavior against God is usually the main reason that I have found that determines why someone has decided to become a Democrat.
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