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For example..the "pro business" box. Who isn't pro business? I'm pro business, but if the box says that being pro business means that I am against ANY regulation of business, and that I am against taxing businesses because they create jobs and anchor society, then I step out of that box. Citizens are regulated by laws and codes, the govt. even at the highest levels has checks and balances....what makes corporations exempt from rules and regulations? And I guess, if you're not in the pro business box..you're a socialist pinko commie?
Gets,
I agree with most of what you said aside from the above statement. You're clearly a thoughtful individual, and I think you are able to take feedback.
What you just did there is overgeneralize, and in doing so, made the opposite argument look simplistic. That, as much as anything else, creates division, and division creates twos. Meaning, those broad boxes that you say people are too focused on, well, the type of generalization you just made, is what causes that type of thinking.
No, being pro business does not mean you are anti any regulations or taxes. Who said it is like that? Smart, common sense regulations and taxes are necessary to provide for the infrastructure of our communities. What we are for is common sense regulation and taxes.
When politicians start getting into the whole "greedy corporation"talk and the whole "the rich need to pay more" that's when you lose me. Especially when the most greedy entities are government unions who demand overcompensation and unreasonable benefits. Benefits, by the way, that nobody in the private sector receives. The damage being done by public sector unions far outweighs the damage being done by private industry. Just take a look at the pension crisis in California, New Jersey, Illinois. I could name more, but you get the idea.
My former and your current Governor, Chris Christie, is the only governor of New Jersey who was willing to address this problem. And in doing so, he saved the teacher's pensions. Instead of lying to the teachers and giving them whatever they wanted, he saved their pensions. But he gets vilified. Why? Because its easier to lie to people then to tell them the truth. Chris Christie, like many republicans, is for common sense government. Bankrupting the state of New Jersey by giving the teacher's triple a benefits is not common sense government.
Why should teacher's get the best benefits in the country when the private sector doesn't? They work about 6 hours a day and are off three months a year. On top of that, they get paid pretty well. Why do they deserve that for working less than your average private sector worker? Especially when they churn out kids like cook who on his best day can't put together a coherent sentence.
