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Old 09-08-2011, 01:59 PM
 
Location: The Land of Reason
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All that I do know is that close to a billion dollars disapeared in Iraq during the war and has never been accounted for.
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Old 09-08-2011, 08:18 PM
 
Location: Oregon
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The rules on this board do not allow me to call another poster stupid .
90 % of Americans still have jobs , do you think they come from the people in the housing projects ?!?
If your thinking that unemployment can't get any lower your wrong. The rich will work or invest even less if they are going to be penalized even more with more taxes .
The rich will close their business and live off of what they earned and saved in past years .
good, then that allows another business to take up their slack, and actually, the more that the large numbers of lower middle class and poor people can buy, the more that it stimulates the economy. the tiny numbers of "the rich" can only buy so many tvs and toasters and underwear, so they don't consume enough products to justify their hoarding of wealth. if the larger populace can buy more, then the sheer numbers of people buying every type of consumer goods, will get things moving more so.
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Old 09-08-2011, 08:24 PM
 
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Poor and Middle Class Conservatives, How do you benefit by helping the wealthy?... Are the tax cuts creating jobs for you?...
False premise.
People should get to keep most of what they earn, how about cutting government by 50% and getting the government employees down from 10% of the population back down to under a half of one percent as they used to be in the 60s?

The wealthy are taxed now as high as 55% for their payroll taxes. They pay property taxes, sales taxes, value added taxes and when they die half goes to the death tax.

Half the wealthy went away during the Obama administration, so why punish the rest out of existence? Most are your employers, as we've seen, attack them and you have 18% unemployment as we do now when adding those out of work over a year.
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Old 09-08-2011, 08:26 PM
 
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Are the tax cuts creating jobs for you?...
Is Obama creating a job for you? Do you have a job? Seems like you post on this forum 24/7
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Old 09-08-2011, 08:49 PM
 
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The Op qustion begs the question;what do anyone who pays taxes benefit from the poor who only consume and contribute no wealth to the country? He seems to be confused who is actually a liabilty and brings nothing to the game.i am surprised that progressives are not callig for eliminatig them like unwanted children really. That is their normal logic thinking'elimination of the ones who weaken the herds survival.
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Old 09-09-2011, 06:13 AM
 
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good, then that allows another business to take up their slack, and actually, the more that the large numbers of lower middle class and poor people can buy, the more that it stimulates the economy. the tiny numbers of "the rich" can only buy so many tvs and toasters and underwear, so they don't consume enough products to justify their hoarding of wealth. if the larger populace can buy more, then the sheer numbers of people buying every type of consumer goods, will get things moving more so.
That's another bogus stat... The actual Unemployment Rate is 22%...
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Old 09-09-2011, 07:06 AM
 
Location: the very edge of the continent
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The Op qustion begs the question; what does anyone who pays taxes benefit from the poor who only consume and contribute no wealth to the country? He seems to be confused who is actually a liabilty and brings nothing to the game. I am surprised that progressives are not calling for eliminating them like unwanted children really.
Very good question, and very good point.
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Old 09-09-2011, 10:16 AM
 
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The Op qustion begs the question;what do anyone who pays taxes benefit from the poor who only consume and contribute no wealth to the country? He seems to be confused who is actually a liabilty and brings nothing to the game.i am surprised that progressives are not callig for eliminatig them like unwanted children really. That is their normal logic thinking'elimination of the ones who weaken the herds survival.
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Very good question, and very good point.
If there were no outsourcing and no hiring of illegals... there would be less poor people... Why aren't any conservatives repealing NAFTA?...
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Old 09-09-2011, 10:19 AM
 
Location: the very edge of the continent
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If there were no outsourcing and no hiring of illegals... there would be less poor people... Why aren't any conservatives repealing NAFTA?...
Who has control of the Senate and the White House? Not conservatives.

Why didn't Pelosi, Reid, and Obama repeal NAFTA when they had control of both the legislative and executive branches?
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Old 09-09-2011, 10:20 AM
 
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Who has control of the Senate and the White House? Not conservatives.

Why didn't Pelosi, Reid, and Obama repeal NAFTA when they had control of both the legislative and executive branches?
So the question now remains... Why won't anybody repeal NAFTA?...
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