Buckwheat said in part: "If I had adopted the Democrat dogma, I would have lost my job, gone on disability, continued my alcoholism, been dependent on government programs, remained on the bottom rungs of the economic ladder, and blamed someone else on my condition.
I believe the Republicans on the lower levels of the economy remain republicans because they still believe they can move up, or at least independent and not become attached to and dependent on the government teat."
You are disregarding your personal natural internal strength and attributing them to the Republican Party [classic not Trump style I hope!] Also you imply that you if helped for food or health care would have continued to drink, sat on your butt and grown fat living off the government doll. Nonsense, that is not your core which is one of personal strength and energy. If your father had been a take advantage of Democrat help programs you would still have had the drive to succeed in the long run.
Should we do away with programs that feed the people who do not have the where-with-all to be successful people. I taught 9th-grade special ed integrated into norm classroom after retiring from industrial management; during that 3 years I learned that some just do not have the brain power. Perhaps with better nutrition in-utero and beyond, their brains would have developed to be higher IQ. Those nutrition, school lunch, and early head-start programs would not have been Republican Programs would they?
My grandfather [dirt poor alcholic] was a republican because he enjoyed the Democratic WPA and Social Security as well as other New-deal Programs. He would talk about the big dollar republicans like they were drinking buddies. Associating himself with those very successful men by name linkage; in this way he avoided admitting his failures and weaknesses. To speak of the good FDR had done and helped him would be associating himself with the hand that helped him when he was down on his and the countries Herbert-Hover, "let them eat cake," ** neglective-luck.
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"Let them eat cake" is the traditional translation of the French phrase "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche",[1] spoken in the 17th or 18th century by "a great princess" upon learning that the peasants had no bread.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_them_eat_cakeBuckwheat said in part: "If I had adopted the... (