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isadore

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May 4, 2012 2:03 PM
gut;1162534 wrote:Take a look at the spending side of the equation. This is what you don't understand. And the "balanced budgets" Clinton left was propped up with an internet bubble, they bursting of which led to the creaton of the housing bubble that propped-up some of the Bush years.

Spending continued to increase faster, and then when you remove the inflated revenues from a juiced economy the true budget shortfall emerges, to the tune of $1.5T deficits.
according to you, thanks for your input.
May 4, 2012 2:03pm
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May 4, 2012 2:03 PM
sleeper;1162583 wrote:How much will you contribute isadore?
obviously not as much as the super rich like you.
May 4, 2012 2:03pm
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May 4, 2012 2:05 PM
isadore;1162585 wrote:obviously not as much as the super rich like you.
I'm not super rich. I'm not even in the top 5%. I do have a lot of money though just sitting in my bank account. I might go donate a couple dollars to a local charity to help the poor, would that appease you?
May 4, 2012 2:05pm
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May 4, 2012 2:23 PM
isadore;1162451 wrote:1. http://www.npc.umich.edu/poverty/#2
http://news.yahoo.com/report-shows-more-older-americans-living-alone-102211021.html
http://www.spotlightonpoverty.org/exclusivecommentary.aspx?id=0e1ca1a2-e921-4349-866b-273a2216c664
4.1 million over 65 in poverty
16.5 million children living in poverty
some 32 percent of disabled adults live in poverty
12.5 million unemployed
Poverty is not the definition of need. I did not ask for poverty statistics.
May 4, 2012 2:23pm
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isadore

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May 4, 2012 3:35 PM
gosh a ruddies aren't we being picky
well people living in poverty are living in need.
May 4, 2012 3:35pm
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May 4, 2012 3:37 PM
sleeper;1162586 wrote:I'm not super rich. I'm not even in the top 5%. I do have a lot of money though just sitting in my bank account. I might go donate a couple dollars to a local charity to help the poor, would that appease you?
vote straight democratic in the next election that would appease me and bring peace in our time.
May 4, 2012 3:37pm
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isadore

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May 4, 2012 3:38 PM
If you study the the graphs you can see in the period from1965 to 1975 as welfare payments rose inreal value, poverty declined, but astheir real value declined, poverty decline first plateaued then rose.
We started a retreat from the War on Poverty along time ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US_poverty_rate_timeline.gif
May 4, 2012 3:38pm
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May 4, 2012 3:39 PM
isadore;1162691 wrote:vote straight democratic in the next election that would appease me and bring peace in our time.
So no to the charity thing? Typical. Gosh a ruddies, you only care about ruining America, not helping the poor.
May 4, 2012 3:39pm
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isadore

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May 4, 2012 3:46 PM
sleeper;1162696 wrote:So no to the charity thing? Typical. Gosh a ruddies, you only care about ruining America, not helping the poor.
Obviously I want to help the whole nation by having you vote Democratic.
May 4, 2012 3:46pm
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May 4, 2012 3:48 PM
isadore;1162704 wrote:Obviously I want to help the whole nation by having you vote Democratic.
If I vote Democratic, I would not be helping the whole nation. This is the reality. Obama has done nothing for the poor, and the do-nothing D controlled senate has done nothing either.
May 4, 2012 3:48pm
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isadore

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May 4, 2012 3:56 PM
his healthcare program is to help the poor and his continuing efforts to resist Republican attempts to cut the safety net to shreds.
May 4, 2012 3:56pm
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May 4, 2012 4:00 PM
isadore;1162688 wrote:gosh a ruddies aren't we being picky
well people living in poverty are living in need.
Totally going over your head.
May 4, 2012 4:00pm
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May 4, 2012 4:06 PM
isadore;1162584 wrote:according to you, thanks for your input.
No, according to us living outside the delusional liberal bubble....or as most would call it, reality.
May 4, 2012 4:06pm
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May 4, 2012 4:08 PM
isadore;1162716 wrote:his healthcare program is to help the poor and his continuing efforts to resist Republican attempts to cut the safety net to shreds.
Where's the safety net once the country is bankrupt? What, do you pray someone else's dead body breaks your fall? But, hey, at least then you'll have your equality you hold so dear.
May 4, 2012 4:08pm
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May 4, 2012 4:12 PM
isadore;1162716 wrote:his healthcare program is to help the poor and his continuing efforts to resist Republican attempts to cut the safety net to shreds.
Unfortunately that law is unconstitutional. You'd think after 4 years of a guy failing you'd look elsewhere.
May 4, 2012 4:12pm
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gut

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May 4, 2012 4:13 PM
isadore;1162565 wrote:“hardships”what a dismissive attitude toward the situation of the poor in America. Nowonder you are so ready to cut their funding. Each night millions of American children go to bed hungry. But that is not enough of a hardship foryou. Let them suffer like they do inDarfur, it will motivate them.
Why do you keep dodging the question? 3B+ people living in abject poverty, living on just 5% what those have in American you claim are so poor, poor and suffering. Why are you so dismissive of nearly half the world that is so much much more needy? It makes you hypocritical and transparent. You don't care about the poor, you care about yourself.
May 4, 2012 4:13pm
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May 4, 2012 4:22 PM
isadore;1162704 wrote:Obviously I want to help the whole nation by having you vote Democratic.
That hasn't worked out too well the last 4-6 years...
May 4, 2012 4:22pm
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HitsRus

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May 4, 2012 5:20 PM
his healthcare program is to help the poor
No...medicaid is for that. It is to buy votes from the people who choose to use their money to buy cell phones and flat screen TV's rather than healthcare.
May 4, 2012 5:20pm
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May 4, 2012 9:01 PM
WebFire;1162727 wrote:Totally going over your head.
no
May 4, 2012 9:01pm
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May 4, 2012 9:03 PM
gut;1162737 wrote:No, according to us living outside the delusional liberal bubble....or as most would call it, reality.
yes you, just waiting to cut the safety net and save yourself a few bucks at the expense of the needy.
May 4, 2012 9:03pm
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May 4, 2012 9:04 PM
gut;1162739 wrote:Where's the safety net once the country is bankrupt? What, do you pray someone else's dead body breaks your fall? But, hey, at least then you'll have your equality you hold so dear.
America has been hearing this phony threat of bankruptcy for 200 plus years.
May 4, 2012 9:04pm
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isadore

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May 4, 2012 9:12 PM
gut;1162742 wrote:Why do you keep dodging the question? 3B+ people living in abject poverty, living on just 5% what those have in American you claim are so poor, poor and suffering. Why are you so dismissive of nearly half the world that is so much much more needy? It makes you hypocritical and transparent. You don't care about the poor, you care about yourself.
Every night Americans go to bed hungry, every day americans are expelled from their homes, every day Americans sleep on the streets, to you those may be
gut wrote:"hardships" America's poor suffer?
if your heart does not go out to these American veterans, American families, American children, you should emigrate so you can invest your time in nations who draw your sympathy instead of these "Americans"
May 4, 2012 9:12pm
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isadore

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May 4, 2012 9:14 PM
jmog;1162750 wrote:That hasn't worked out too well the last 4-6 years...
the small injection of compassion is worth it, instead of the self rigtheous i got mine, screw you so prevalent with folks like you.
May 4, 2012 9:14pm
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isadore

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May 4, 2012 9:15 PM
HitsRus;1162763 wrote:No...medicaid is for that. It is to buy votes from the people who choose to use their money to buy cell phones and flat screen TV's rather than healthcare.
no
May 4, 2012 9:15pm
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May 4, 2012 10:01 PM
isadore;1162864 wrote:no
yes
May 4, 2012 10:01pm