The Republicans' Inside-Out Approach to Poverty?!!
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You will never get an honest answer from dishonest hyperartisan dunces on the left.
Boris The Animal
It's Just Boris!
Exactly, and before Lyndon Blowjob Johnson enacted his so-called "war on poverty", the country didn't have the massive amount of debt it does now. Imagine that?!?!
Deficit when Johnson made his speech; $1.4 billion.
Deficit when Johnson left office; $25.1 billion.
Deficit when Obama took office; $1.4 trillion.
Average deficit during the Obama Presidency after withdrawing from Iraq and drawing down in Afghanistan - $1.045 trillion.
Poverty; almost identical to when the war was declared 50 years ago. Result= fail.
Ishmael Pequod
Banned
Best cure for poverty is a job. Were are they?
They would end poverty if they were funded at a level that would bring people above the poverty level. Social Security has dramatically reduced poverty among the elderly! But you fucking Republicans want to cut that and food stamps so the elderly will be thrown back into poverty!
Where have the jobs been since 1961 when Michael Harrigton wrote the book that inspired the War on Poverty, The Other America? It's been a recurring nightmare as each generation faces a transformation in technology and the ensuing joblessness and poverty that accompanies such a change.
signalmankenneth
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REPUBLICANS HAVE NOTHING OF SUBSTANCE TO OFFER THE POOR
http://news.yahoo.com/republicans-nothing-substance-offer-poor-050006134.html
http://news.yahoo.com/republicans-nothing-substance-offer-poor-050006134.html
christiefan915
Catalyst
Good question. Repubs always say that giving tax cuts to the rich was supposed to help create jobs. Where are they?
And yet Obama wants to CUT Social Security benefits, a program that people were forced to contribute to all their working lives.....go figure.
Is his idea of "redistributing the wealth" to take from seniors while he don't contribute a penny to the fund and will never need the benefits ?
Anti-Party
Tea Is The New Kool-Aid
What you small brains don't know is that not everyone using the programs are guilty of Government Fraud.. But so much for innocent until proven guilty (R)ight?
I laughed out loud when I read "Or do they just make it more bearable?". OF COURSE THEY DONT FIX POVERTY BONE HEAD! THEY ARE MADE SO PEOPLE IN WORST CASE SCENARIOS FIND THEIR SLUM MORE BEARABLE!.
Right wing thinks everyone on these programs are lazy fakers and the Left wing thinks that there is no one scamming the system. Simple bias minds.
Anti-Party
Tea Is The New Kool-Aid
We gave them tax cuts and today we have the biggest corporate profits of all time and the lowest workers wages of all time. But the (R)ight "won't be controlled by fact checking"
Taft2016
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Which reinforces my point, dumbass. It's not a war *ON* poverty, it's a war *FOR* poverty.
I didn't bring up fraud at all. Knee jerk liberalism at its finest.
Dear dunce; no level of funding will make people prosperous or raise them out of poverty. That is a leftist myth based on 50 years of failure and $20.7 trillion of other peoples money spent.
You will never resolve the issue of poverty through government programs....EVER. Venezeula is the perfect example of such dimwitted efforts and all they have done is made misery a common theme for everyone. The brain dead economic dunces have to ask themselves how a small country rich in oil resources could fail so miserably with their feel good Marxist ideological policies.
Allowing people to keep more of what they earn is a sane policy. Ensuring that there is a strong incentive for risk taking and investments ensures future job growth. Reforming our educational systems and actually focusing on teaching instead of indoctrinating and trying to force equal outcomes will go a long way towards ending poverty.
People aren't poor because the Government doesn't steal enough wealth; they are poor because they make really bad choices and lack education. They remain poor when well intentioned leftist dunces make excuses for their bad choices and promise them a free lunch for their votes.
Please show me one nation that taxed its citizens into prosperity; you just cannot find one.
Dear lying dunce; Repubs never, ever said this. Why are you such a dishonest leftist dunce? Republicans always say letting EVERYONE keep more of what THEY EARN is a good policy.
This tired moronic meme of the left is another example of how dimwitted dunces like you are on autopilot parroting the dunce like talking points of the leftist media and DNC.
If you had the slightest clue, which you do not, you would see the reality of the failure of such dimwitted economic notions that suggest that allowing the Governmental theft of earned income will somehow lead to good outcomes; but they never have and they never will.
Empty headed gullible dunces like you fall for the political rhetoric of dishonest politicians who dupe dunces into voting for them by claiming they care more than anyone else on the planet, when all they really care about is maintaining their political power by promising dimwits something for nothing.
Margaret Thatcher hit the nail on the proverbial head when she stated this; the problem with Liberals is that they eventually run out of other peoples money to spend.
Nothing could be more true. While our founders argued for constrained Government to ensure freedom and liberty, dunces like you clamor for more Government and less liberty desperately wanting to make everyone wards of the state under the mistaken belief that this will somehow make our lives better; history is littered with the failure of such ideolofpgical buffoonery. Unfortunately, dunces on the left desperately want to keep re-learning the mistakes of the past because they can't remember what happened yesterday and stupidly think that if we just keep trying failed Policies of the past, suddenly they will work.
So the tax cuts that brought the rates from 91% to 38% are no longer viable because your hair grows enough to need to be cut every 2-3 weeks. Have your taxes grown every 2-3 weeks too! No they haven't, and the tax cuts didn't create the jobs they were supposed to create in fact if they had there would have been full employment, but there hasn't been anything even approaching full employment since WWII although some states during the Clinton years did get down to 2-3% unemployment, which is damn close to full employment. And this surge in employment followed tax increases. But mostly for the last 30 years the rates have been under 40% and we have had recessions and 5-6 percent unemployment, as well as a general stagnation in wages coupled with huge increases in production. But the money from those production increases have not trickled down to the workers in the form of wages increases, they have gone to the people at the top in the form of huge salary increases.
Yeah, the country also didn't have a massive war in Vietnam to pay for, it didn't have the wars and invasions and military build-up under Reagan to pay for, all on the cuff while he cut taxes, it didn't have the first Iraq war which was fought under the first Bush, 41, to pay for, and it certainly didn't have the wars on the cuff started and fought by his son to the tune of over 3 trillion dollars or more to pay for. Compare all that warfare which is nothing more than blowing piles and piles of money up and what that costs and then compare the budgets of the Pentagon with the budgets for all social programs except Social Security, during these years that you claim the War on Poverty, which was always horribly underfunded, was being fought, and tell me where the money has gone. It wasn't to fight poverty it was to fight the other all over the globe in wars and proxy wars.
The risk taking during the Bush years nearly destroyed the international monetary system and added trillions to the national debt. How are you going to pay for that education that you speak of without taxation?