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I have a question that my husband asked me. What is a millionaire? Is it someone that makes a million dollars or more per year or someone who is worth a million dollars.
He is also wondering if middle class people all make $250,000 a year like the candidates kept talking about?
We are just country people living very comfortably on a lot less and wonder what all the hoopdela is all about?
Actually the 47% who you hold dearly, overwhelming reside in conservative states.
LOL..but what about the details my friend ?
Texas is conservative yes.
We have the 3 poorest counties in the US top 10 poorest counties in the US.
Those three counties are solid Democrats who voted for Obama both in 2008 and 2012.
Get rid of those 3 counties and Texas would be a net giver of Federal Funds instead of a net receiver.
Just because the state is conservative don't assume the poverty is conservative as well.
Here ya go..one of the fastest growing, poorest counties of the US here in Texas.
30% of the county is on food stamps.
They haven't voted Republican since 1972.
Obama is following suit, and tens of millions of idiots voted for that.
Uh, first of all posting a single article from UCLA doesn't makes this correct. Secondly, this is from 2004 and there aren't too many parallels to Obama here.
From your article:
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"So he came up with a recovery package that would be unimaginable today, allowing businesses in every industry to collude without the threat of antitrust prosecution and workers to demand salaries about 25 percent above where they ought to have been, given market forces. The economy was poised for a beautiful recovery, but that recovery was stalled by these misguided policies."
....In the three years following the implementation of Roosevelt's policies, wages in 11 key industries averaged 25 percent higher than they otherwise would have done, the economists calculate. But unemployment was also 25 percent higher than it should have been, given gains in productivity.
Wages have been flat for most Americans throughout this.
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No, but the chart shows that an overwhelming majority vote Democrat:
It certainly is curious that they are in a conservative state, with conservative policies instead of a liberal state with liberal policies. Curious indeed.
Uh, first of all posting a single article from UCLA doesn't makes this correct. Secondly, this is from 2004 and there aren't too many parallels to Obama here.
From your article:
Wages have been flat for most Americans throughout this.
It certainly is curious that they are in a conservative state, with conservative policies instead of a liberal state with liberal policies. Curious indeed.
Not really. If they are poor then they get their social benefits regardless of the state they live in.
Politics are not that big of a concern to the poor.
BS. That would only be true if we had a 100% labor force participation rate. We don't. It's only 63.8%.
That means... the mooches AREN'T working.
What?, non workers pay taxes. I'm retired and pay a hell of a lot of taxes.
A good part of that 47% does work, we call them the working poor, like my 78 year old mom. You still haven't told me how much more she should pay.
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