You pay all these taxes but you don't want anything in return for it. You don't want free health care. You don't want time off of work. You don't want anything. You're not selfish enough.
You get mad when someone is taking welfare and sitting on their ass. What have you got against sitting on your ass? The whole point behind having a government and paying taxes is to have more time to sit on your ass. That's what technology is for. You Americans work longer than anyone, pay all these taxes, make all these robots, and then not only don't you sit on your ass, but you get mad when anyone else does. You're fucking crazy.
Robots are so you can sit on your ass, don't you get that? In other countries they make the robots and then get in some good ass-sitting. You make the robots and go homeless, which you think is your fault because you were sitting on your ass. Bonkers.
You aren't selfish enough. That's your whole problem. In a regular country, if anyone tried to take away health care and free time, there would be riots in the streets. Why? Because people want free health care and free time. That's all. They are selfish.
That's why people in other countries have a goverment. That's why they fund all the robot-making. I can't for the life of me tell why you have a government and do all the robot-making. Near as I can tell, you have machines that do more work than you just so you can be homeless and die. Which is the wrong kind of ass-sitting.
You say, "people on welfare are lazy." What the hell is wrong with lazy? Do you want lazy people to starve to death? Don't you want to be more lazy? Don't you want a hobby? Why not?
Again, I could understand that if you weren't paying all these taxes, I guess. But you are, and you seem like you don't want anything for it.
Oh, defense. Yes. You give money to the government and then they give it to Boeing and GE for defense. And that's why there's no money left to sit on your ass and get free hip-replacement surgery. Got it. Feeling safe are ya? You and your busted hip and 60 hour a week job that you could lose tomorrow?
There is something wrong with your calculations. And here it is: you aren't selfish enough.
Growing up means understanding self-regard. And you got none. You think anything for you must be bad. You're like a kid whose hand has been slapped above the cookie jar. Thing is, you made the cookies, idiot. This is your country, your government, and your taxes . . . you get to say what is done with it. And here's a clue: you want to sit on your ass more. You want free health care.
The above is an embellished version of something a Canadian friend said to me recently. It was such a strange thing to my American ears, and yet seemed so obviously correct, that I thought I would pass it along.