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I'm curious if you have kids.  I remember my first glimpse of my daughter on ultrasound.  Fully formed and fully human.  That really hardened my opinion.


 


I feel those who haven't taken care of themselves owe the most to society.  I've been working since the age of 12, and have always taken education and other opportunities seriously.  I now make very good money, and pay more in taxes than my parents made in a year.  I met people all along the way, many of whom are now permanent "tax eaters."  What they lacked in ambition, they've made up for in getting politicians to take my money and give it to them.  I don't owe them a thing.


I do feel a responsibility to those who, through no fault of their own, cannot earn enough to survive.  If only my taxes were spent on them, versus the serial underachievers....




True that, but not as numerous as unprincipled politicians, I think.  :)


I didn't find such careerist to be systemic, certainly not to the point where they'd be able to stage a coup, or start a meaningless war.  That still takes a politician. 


My broad generalization was only meant to convey that there are real failsafes unintentionally built into our current system of government that many don't consider, because we've not seen a civic breakdown of such a magnitude that it'd be apparent (thankfully) in the last 40 years.


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