I'm not obsessed with it, but I'm aware of it. Its just one of several measures this site uses to see who's contributing to the website. IF it wasn't IMPORTANT, the website wouldn't have the "likes" count up. The fact that you don't care is your own opinion; I personally like to know that what I'm doing is creating conversation ... either positively or negatively. With you, its negative ... I started playing you the day I found out you were a Tea Party Republican.Because i really DON'T care. It's nice, but it is not necessary for me to live life. You seem obsessed with it.
Listen to yourself, falcond, first you say you're not pissed off, then you say you are pissed off ... which is it?.... People like Obama, Clinton, Reid, Pelosi, Dodd, Frank, O'Neil, and the ilk that support them have run this country into the ground. Our education system is crap, race relations are crap, our military is being gutted, the IRS and the NSA are being used as weapons against Americans, and if Bin Laden attacked today, instead of in 2001, we wouldn't have a freaking clue where to catch him. You damned right I'm pissed off.
If you're pissed off about education, you should note it is Republicans making cuts to funding of education; wanting t change school systems to charters, etc. Here in NC, they even funneled some of the state lotto money targeted to public schools, to fund charter schools. And they refuse to give state teachers a adequate pay raise and have tried to remove tenure for older teachers.
Same with race relations ... they're doing everything they can to keep minorities suppressed ... hell, you're in one of the worst states for it. Look at what's going on in the Republican run Southern states ... its shameful. It boiled to the surface, and became visabile during the 2008 elections and has grown ever since. The rich, old white men aren't going to relinquish this country anytime soon, not as long as they have MONEY. Hell, its not all that much different from the Apartheid that took place in S. Africa ... we just call it something different here.
And we already spend way too much money on our military, more so than the top 10 other countries combined. We're just not as frugal with how we spend our money on weaponry. Plus, we turn around and GIVE our technology to countries like Israel for their loyalty. The Defense companies (Lockheed, Northrop, General Dynamics, etc) have been taking advantage of the free-spending likes of Dick Cheneys for years. Cheney profited off the Iraq war, you do know that, right?
And you can't pass moral judgement on OTHERS ... whether it is regarding abortion, entitlements, marriage equality, or whatever ... you have no right to tell everyone else what morals we should have.
The biggest problem we have going right now is the BIG MONEY that is taking over politics, and it was Republicans that opened THAT FACET up ... just remember.
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