GabonX wrote:Thanks mom. I guess you've got me all figured out
Keeping in mind that just acting snide doesn't make you right, I would be curious what part of my 'diatribe' you take issue with. I don't like that you've taken this to a personal level, but if thats where we are that's fine.. I'll give my opinion and I think I actually have enough information to form one.
I find your sense of entitlement profoundly disturbing and your over all attitude to be self righteous and pompous. I see all of these things you've written and it seems like you don't have any real concern for other people's rights or traditions if they inconvenience you, ie people can't go hunting on state game lands because you want to walk around with your kids in hunting woods. You think that guns are all right, but only the type that your husband would use and for the same things that he would use them for. God forbid somebody would have something more powerful than him and would be prepared to use it (responsibly) at a time when he wouldn't be..
You seem to think that you are entitled to some kind of privilege to stick your nose up at other people because of either your charity, or your husbands charity (which are two different things for the record). In addition it seems like you feel entitled to the fruits of other people's labor partly because of this, and partly because anyone who has more money than you just got it because they're lucky. Nobody is smarter than you, nobody works harder than you, it's all luck and circumstance..
..This despite the fact that you spend tens of hours writing thousand word responses to people on this forum. You have every right to complain and no need to change the way you spend your time. No, you are entitled to what they have worked for because of your husband's "
charity."
If someone disagrees with you it's because they're ignorant, or 'lack intellectual capacity,' or because they are 'extremists' and their views shouldn't be taken seriously. Evolution is sacred, and so is the bible..and you have the perfect understanding of how the two things work together. After all you're a scientist which means that you are rational and intelligent..right?
Basically people are free to live their lives and think their thoughts only in ways which are approved of by 'society.' The thing is, your view of societal standards is a thinly veiled cover which exists in your own mind to rationalize selfishness for yourself and for your family.
I see through it.
I make an admittedly snide, but like response to a remark you make and this is the response?
Basically, you are entitled to your opinion, but when you say things like give me fact, not NPR garbage, whilst you post all sorts of ounverified or outright disproven web posts as if they were somehow valid, it just shows you DO lack intellectual capacity.
As for my husband. You are half right. No, I am not the one currently volunteering, but he could not do what he does if I were not taking care of the kids, house and just about everything else. So, yes, I do get some credit.
Not sure where you get this idea that I think the world owes me a living. We pay our bills. I cannot work outside the home right now because of my husband's extensive volunteer work, the expense and poor availability of childcare, but I am pursuing home options, one reason I am on the computer a lot now.
I DO believe that anyone who WORKS deserves to be paid enough to live on. I know that's a shocker to some, but if you don't pay someone enough to live on, then who, exactly are you expecting to pick up the tab? Basically, "society". If you cannot afford to pay someone that much, then you cannot afford to hire them, at least not full time. Your business is not profitable enough .. either do better or go out. That is the harsh reality. Now, in other threads I have gotten into more details, like the fact that small businesses pay an inordinant level of taxes, etc. I won't get into all that here. I don't fault the small owner who barely makes ends meet himself and pays his employees minimum wage. (Actually, most true small businesses I know pay their employees better than that, because they want quality workers.) I fault the giant companies who come in, get tax breaks, pay employees the barest minimums (not necessarily minimum wage, but not much more) so they can pay stockholders in another county or state or even country big profits. I fault those companies when they decide to ship their business overseas so they can make a few more dollars, particularly when some of those very same owners and stockholders are among the first to pounce on any tax increases to support the poor (i.e. thier employees),etc.
And my saying you are ignorant is nowhere near the same as saying anyone who disagrees is ignorant. I do know a good deal more about natural resource issues than many here, but there are other people who know a good deal about other subjects. I just refrain from posting on most of those topics or bow to those who have the information. There was a time when I actually respected your opinions, but you keep heading into the gutter.
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