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Old 11-16-2013, 05:19 AM
 
Location: the very edge of the continent
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Originally Posted by samiwas1 View Post
You can't pay someone crumbs, then chastise them for not contributing to the system.
They get market wages. They get paid what their work is worth. If you're unhappy about that, STOP buying products and services. No more iCrap, etc., for you. Shun the corporations you revile.

Just do it...
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Old 11-16-2013, 05:34 AM
 
Location: Florida
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. Please try expressing a moral thought in your next reply, rather than just self-serving avaricious claptrap, so it too won't be vacuous.
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Here's a 'moral' thought for you regarding health care.
Why aren't you campaigning for all the poor people of the world?
Isn't it sick that you have a computer and probably a car and a refrigerator and so much else when so many are dying in 3rd world countries?
Where is your compassion, man??
Actually, you should probably find deserving recipients of the cash without even leaving your city. Don't be so greedy and selfish.
Once you've lived up to what you preach, come back.
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Old 11-16-2013, 05:46 AM
 
Location: the very edge of the continent
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Here's a 'moral' thought for you regarding health care.
Why aren't you campaigning for all the poor people of the world?
Isn't it sick that you have a computer and probably a car and a refrigerator and so much else when so many are dying in 3rd world countries?
Where is your compassion, man??
Actually, you should probably find deserving recipients of the cash without even leaving your city. Don't be so greedy and selfish.
Once you've lived up to what you preach, come back.
Nice call out on the blatant hypocrisy.
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Old 11-16-2013, 06:54 AM
 
Location: San Antonio
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You who hate the 1% , would you like to be them, or would you deny the request to be one of them?
I'll take it in a heartbeat.
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Old 11-16-2013, 07:00 AM
 
Location: Long Island, NY
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You who hate the 1% , would you like to be them, or would you deny the request to be one of them?
I'll take it in a heartbeat.
Liberals don't hate the 1%. They just think the 1% should pay more taxes and that policies should be formed to limit income inequality.
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Old 11-16-2013, 07:04 AM
 
Location: Long Island, NY
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...why would the Dems want to shrink their voter base by lifting people out of poverty? Of course, they wouldn't. Strategically, that would be a mistake that would cost them significant amounts of political power.
That's exactly what Democratic policies did in the 1930s and 1940s and the middle class grew. It got the the point where President Eisenhower said this:

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Old 11-16-2013, 07:16 AM
 
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Liberals don't hate the 1%. They just think the 1% should pay more taxes and that policies should be formed to limit income inequality.
Sorry, those two demands are mutually exclusive. Already explained, here:
http://www.city-data.com/forum/32238641-post492.html
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Old 11-16-2013, 07:18 AM
 
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That's exactly what Democratic policies did in the 1930s and 1940s and the middle class grew.
That was then, this is now. How are the poor and middle class doing now that so many have been conditioned to receiving artificial means of support?
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Old 11-16-2013, 07:19 AM
 
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So many years and poverty balloons. It's amazing that anyone believes that government can fix it.
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Old 11-16-2013, 07:26 AM
 
Location: USA
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So many years and poverty balloons. It's amazing that anyone believes that government can fix it.
Well seeing that there's an entire world out there with different systems (some better) when it comes to the issue of income distribution, it would only make sense.


Maybe the issue is too complex for some, but others of us see exactly what's going on.
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