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Another example would be the complaints about "ObamaCare" and the individual mandate... a concept that is entirely their creation. Another example would be the housing crisis where they blame Democrats but are 90% responsible. Newt Gingrich was pushing home ownership for low income minorities for years as a way to bring those voters into the Republican fold... now he claims the opposite. THAT is what defines the Republican Party... BULLSHIT. They hold responsibility for the majority of the major scandals over the last 40 years... but if you ask any of them about it they will lie about it and claim it was something other than what it was. Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney are not flukes... they are a total reflection of the Republican Party and the conservative movement in general. FULL OF SHIT. |
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The SCOTUS treating them as people gives the people who control them an extra voice in the political process. Corporations don't take a shareholder vote to see which candidates to support OR which lobbyists to pay. Shareholders get their own vote and donation limit... why do they need an extra avenue to express that political opinion? Corporations should have no influence on the Democratic process... it's "We the People"... not "We the People and the wealthy who can control the political process through the capital power of their corporations". |
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or as is typical of your kind, pretend its not there.:1orglaugh |
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don't tax corporations like they are people and you won't then have to treat them like people. I'm in full agreement there but then your governmental teat would dry up that much more.:thumbsup |
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http://www.mediaite.com/online/media...reet-protests/ http://www.theblaze.com/stories/meet...occupy-a-desk/ You must love eating shit sandwiches. |
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http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-me...-debt-accumul/ And distort what it said by using Debt vs. debt as a percentage of GDP. |
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and there is no distortion, silly boy. here is a cut and paste: Reagan: Up 14.9 percentage points George H.W. Bush: Up 7.1 percentage points Clinton: Down 13.4 percentage points George W. Bush: Up 5.6 percentage points Obama: Up 21.9 percentage points (through December 2010 only) So by this measurement -- potentially a more important one -- Obama is the undisputed debt king of the last five presidents take note that we're now in nov. of 2011 so obama's number will now be even higher. |
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nice try though.:thumbsup |
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obama could have cut governmental spending. he did not, he inflated it. the end. |
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The other day we were driving through town and went past a whole slew of road construction projects. Big ones. Almost immediately after we were discussing how the state was broke. He looks over and says "you know... all of this is great... but I really wonder more and more, who is going to pay for this stuff and when do we stop?" I also have my theory on how the older generations (60+) have screwed the younger generations... but we'll cover that a different day I suppose... |
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during that time, we've allowed 50% of our ADULT population to stop paying income tax. our government explained that we didn't have to save for a rainy day. and now its raining. |
My paternal grandfather came to NYC in 1911 -- he was 11 years old and came from Czarist Russia. Louis pushed a cart in the streets of NYC peddling new men's socks and underwear. He bought his own pushcart and some inventory and became his own boss in a few years. |
yes it great to watch the ustream kids live feeds. totally different that the non-stop smears from the msm. you see the majority of protesters are just average decent people who don't like where their country and world is right now.
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we have a sliding idiot scale where the less able you are, the less you have to pay. sadly, we've allowed much of our adult population to pass as grown children who can't pay their way. the earned income tax credit is a gift from the government. when you give the government $1000.00 and the government gives you $1500, you did not EARN any tax credit nor did you pay taxes so don't go patting yourself on the back when you check box that credit:thumbsup |
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for every protester begging for a handout, there's someone like your grandfather working his way to the top. back in 1911 there was no income tax, no unemployment benefits, no welfare, standard oil was a bigger, more powerful monopoly than ANYTHING we have now, the list goes on and on yet you think today's beggars (uh, protesters) have it hard but your grandfather had a fair shake? wow:1orglaugh |
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What is fair? And when did life ever become fair? Who came up with that silly notion? The day I stopped begging for life to be fair was the day I became my own person. |
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Very well said. :thumbsup |
No, I am just not stupid -- I earn my money from the spending of the top 20% of that 99% |
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and please.......stop confusing the bottom .00005% with the actual 99% |
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son, you go on believing whatever makes you imagine you're right.:thumbsup |
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is your point that the stupid should make as much as the smart? your grandfather didn't believe that. |
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http://www.linfo.org/standardoil.html """The saga of Standard Oil ranks as one of the most dramatic episodes in the history of the U.S. economy. It occurred at a time when the country was undergoing its rapid transformation from a mainly agricultural society to the greatest industrial powerhouse the world has ever known. The effects of Standard Oil on the U.S., as well as on much of the rest of the world, were immense, and the lessons that can be learned from this amazing story are possibly as relevant today as they were a century ago. Standard Oil Company was founded by John D. Rockefeller in Cleveland, Ohio in 1870, and, in just a little over a decade, it had attained control of nearly all the oil refineries in the U.S. This dominance of oil, together with its tentacles entwined deep into the railroads, other industries and even various levels of government, persisted and intensified, despite a growing public outcry and repeated attempts to break it up, until the U.S. Supreme Court was finally able to act decisively in 1911............"""" |
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The movement can do whatever it wants. I don't really care. I think a little chaos is good every now and then. I don't think they are going to accomplish much though and demanding "fairness" is just silly. If things did get more "fair", that would require somebody to set the rules to make things "fair." And guess who that somebody would be? The dreaded 1%. Times are tough for a lot of people, I'm not denying that at all. But if you want to compare tough times today and tough times 100 years ago, I'll take tough times today without thinking twice. Life is good for most people. Making demands without putting forth the sweat just doesn't work. |
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Sadly in the end, we keep electing Politicians. No one goes into politics to help people. they go into it to get paid. |
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