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2) Providing Federal Funding For Rip-Off For-Profit Colleges
3) Protecting And Subsidizing The Drug Industry
4) Boosting The Insurance Industry’s Profits
5) Bailing Out The Big Banks And Then Failing To Regulate Them
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Government actually spends a relatively small amount of its budget on assisting the poor. It actually spends an extraordinary amount of money handing the already-rich even more money.
Actually, the entire OP is a lie and complete failure.
You talk about SPENDING, but then you list 5 things that aren't spending at all.
Number 5 is almost HILARIOUS in that it was OBAMA that bailed out the banks and the Democrats are in control....so exactly who, if anyone, didn't regulate them afterwards?
Here's a REAL pie chart from Wikipedia that shows the USA does spend more on SS, Medicare, and the poor:
I just read your TOTALLY BIASED rag link and it doesn't answer Happy Texan's question at all.
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Originally Posted by HappyTexan How did the Republicans in the House get those laws passed without the rest of Congress and without the President's signature ?
Why don't you quote what part answers his question?
Actually, the entire OP is a lie and complete failure.
You talk about SPENDING, but then you list 5 things that aren't spending at all.
Number 5 is almost HILARIOUS in that it was OBAMA that bailed out the banks and the Democrats are in control....so exactly who, if anyone, didn't regulate them afterwards?
Here's a REAL pie chart from Wikipedia that shows the USA does spend more on SS, Medicare, and the poor:
Who is in support of, or opposed to, the e Dodd-Frank financial reform law?
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Republican presidential candidates want to repeal Congress’s Dodd-Frank financial regulation overhaul to “protect the status quo” on Wall Street.
Drug companies make big $$$ off of Medicare part D because the federal government cannot negotiate drug prices with drug companies.
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By the design of the program, the federal government is not permitted to negotiate prices of drugs with the drug companies, as federal agencies do in other programs.
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