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It’s the governments role to provide us with the road to prosperity, but it is ours to provide the means to get down that road ourselves.  The importance of this self determination is often missed by liberals, who think it unfair that somebody can go farther down this highway than others.

What a typical mischaracterization of the left.  That sort of logic is the very reason I love being a liberal, because most right-wingers dont understand us, at all.

Further, leave it to a tard to politicize a song by Chris Cornell and put a right-wing spin on it.  Lame.

I am a liberal, and I worked my ass off to get where I am.  I watched all my rich friends spoil their opportunity trying to be cool and fit in due to peer pressure.  They threw all of their advantages away and still, they will inherit their fathers wealth or company because they won’t fall behind the same way a poor person would.

I fought, struggled and took advantage of every opportunity I had to get where I am.  I started my own business in college and I would get pulled over by the police for driving my crappy truck to my rich business partners house in the posh neighborhoods of Blackhawk, and why?  Because I drove a crappy truck and because I am dark.  The cop asked if he could search my car for drugs.  Why would he do that?  Because I was dark-skinned.

Most right-wingers dont understand the challenges lesser advantaged people must work through to stay ahead or keep their heads above water on a daily basis.  If they do than they mischaracterize those of us who worked hard to get to the top and now care and understand for those other disadvantaged kids who might not grasp how important it is to capitalize on ever opportunity.  For their rich peers will fall down but get back up again. When they fall, they better find a way to catch up because they can not afford to fall behind.

We only fight to make sure the road is paved evenly for each child.  When you are in a race, you have a much more difficult time keeping up with your opponent if his road is paved, while your is made of dirt. 

I think you don’t know what you are talking about.

H,

Life is tough. Liberalism never created one economic opportunity that could be acheived the way you achieved it.  Economic prosperity creates these opportunities.  If you understood economics in the slightest you would know that as well as the opportunities that are lost to taxes and regulations which attempt unjustly to level the playing field.

There are lots of ways of interpreting the lyrics to this song.  One of my favorites involves the proper role of government.  “I am not your rolling wheels, I am the highway”.

Great song (Chris Cornell is a personal favorite of mine), and I’d never really thought of the political interpretations of the song.  Yours makes sense, and it could be true though I can’t expect that commie Tom Morello would have been too happy about it.

I don’t know much about Cornell’s politics, but I do know that one of his conditions upon joining Audioslave was that their songs not be overtly political like Morello’s were with Rage Against The Machine (also a great band, though the socialist preaching was often grating).

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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Liberalism never created one economic opportunity that could be acheived the way you achieved it.

Maybe not the way I achieved it.  But I was lucky because I had a family to support me with a roof over my head and food, when times were tough.  So many lesser advantaged kids will never have the same chance I had and certainly not the same chance my friends had, who had it better than me.

I dont think you do understand economics the way you say you do.

Companies that I have worked for certainly did do well from Liberal ideas.  Do you know what an 8A is? 

Look it up and get back to me.

...and I’d never really thought of the political interpretations of the song.  Yours makes sense, and it could be true though I can’t expect that commie Tom Morello would have been too happy about it.

Give me a break Rob.  Do you really think Chris Cornell, a former Heroin addict is a Conservative?????

Did you know they released a DVD called “Audioslave – Live in Cuba”???

I also see you listen to Jack Johnson.  Do you think he is a conservative too?  Do you think he is also writing songs that belittle his audience as well?