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Originally Posted by DGthe3
I cannot get over how self centered Americans tend to be. Its all about the rights of the individual. Opposing mass transit funding and opposing health care because it will take your money and give it to someone else. What of the rights of the less fortunate? I am a student, I can't afford the time to have a job and I don't have the money for a car. Without public transit, living would be pretty difficult. Without tax payers helping out, mass transit would be either non existant here or extremely limited and fairly expensive. And so I would be forced to accept that because I am not in a situation where I can use a car. Could I manage? yes. But it would cost me an extra $10 to get groceries each week, just as one example. I would have to pay $50 to go home and see my family who live 2 hours away. to people with jobs, thats an annoyance. to someone who has an annual income of -$10 000 its a bit more important.
I'm sorry for the rant, I'm just one for the little guy. I don't want to hyjack this thread with an off topic debate. So please keep replys to the issue at hand.
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First, don't apologize for the opinion...you are entitled to it.
But, let me throw this out to you...
How self centered am I actually being when I don't want to see my tax dollars (the amount of which I have no control over) going to fund something that I cannot even use. And, I mean cannot use. I don't want to use it, but it doesn't matter because I can't. There is no mass transit where I live. Yes, there is mass transit in Omaha, but not in the part of town I live in. Not the part of town I work in, where I shop, where my family lives, where my friends are, anything that I do....it doesn't exist here. So why should I have to pay for it?
You ask "What of the rights of the less fortunate?" Yeah, what of it? What rights? Mass transportation is not a right. It is a privilege. Don't talk to me about "entitled privileges" for the less fortunate. I've been busting my ass for the last 20 years so that I could afford some of those privileges. Those with less means should have less. Period.
I'm not opposed to helping people, but in general, yeah, I'm totally against the taking of my money so it can be given to someone else. If I have to bust my ass all these years to hand my money to someone else, I want to choose who that someone else is, how often I give them something and how much. If that makes me self centered...fine, then I am the most self centered son of bitch on the planet.
The government is only supposed to pay for a couple things (based on a little thing known as the Constitution). Things like the defense of this country. Not making sure every single person has a subsidized bus/train ride every day.