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And what plans do Republicans have to improve income equality?
Republicans had their chance from 2000 to 2006 and gave the rich major tax breaks and sacrificed 4,000 poor to die in Iraq. At least Obama didn't do this damage. Obama is lesser of 2 evils
None, want income equality, get a higher education or a better job, nobody owes you anything.
Well done Einstain. Why do you think they voted for someone who would try to improve that situation? And why do you think they did not vote for someone who said he doesn't care about the lower 47% of the population?
Romney did not say he didn't care, he said he knew he would not get their vote, because they would vote for free stuff, how could he compete with that?
Romney did not say he didn't care, he said he knew he would not get their vote, because they would vote for free stuff, how could he compete with that?
And they proved him correct, no? How's that working out for them? Have their incomes increased under the Obama Admin? Are fewer of them in poverty?
Romney did not say he didn't care, he said he knew he would not get their vote, because they would vote for free stuff, how could he compete with that?
The left will continue to push the lie and take Romney out of context. His point was that HIS CAMPAIGN was using its funds to get out the vote of the people that were on board with his message. He was not going to waste money pandering to people that were not ever going to vote for him anyway. They were to dependent on welfare and other freebies and had to intention of voting against their own interests.
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Romney did not say he didn't care, he said he knew he would not get their vote, because they would vote for free stuff, how could he compete with that?
And just like with Russia, Romney was right. Politicians have learned you can't beat santa
Romney did not say he didn't care, he said he knew he would not get their vote, because they would vote for free stuff, how could he compete with that?
"my job is not to worry about those people" - Mitt Romney
How appropriate is this?
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(CNSNews.com) – President Obama has characterized income inequality as “the defining challenge of our time,” prodding Republicans to come up with “concrete plans” to reduce it.
However, a new study by the Brookings Institute shows that the highest levels of income inequality in the U.S. are found in Democratic strongholds: the nation’s largest cities.
In his Dec. 4, 2013 speech, “Remarks on Economic Mobility,” Obama praised the New Deal and the War on Poverty for building “the largest middle class the world has ever known,” and lamented “a dangerous and growing inequality and lack of upward mobility that has jeopardized middle-class America’s basic bargain – that if you work hard, you have a chance to get ahead.”
The president challenged congressional Republicans to come up with “concrete plans that will actually reduce inequality, build the middle class, provide more ladders of opportunity to the poor.”
But the highest levels of income inequality in the nation are in cities that voted overwhelmingly to reelect Obama in 2012
And, it turns out, the cities with the highest levels of income equality also happen to be the same places were Obama won some of his biggest victories in 2012.
“In 2012, Obama won 69.4 percent of the vote in cities with more than 500,000 people and 58.4% of the vote in cities with 50,000 to 500,000 people,” UrbanCincy reported. The final popular vote total across the nation was a lot closer: 51 percent for Obama, and 47 percent for Romney.
Atlanta, which Brookings says has the nation’s highest level of income inequality, is the ninth largest metropolitan area in the U.S. The City of Atlanta straddles two counties, and both went for Obama in a big way in 2012. Obama beat Romney in Fulton County 64.1 to 34.4 percent, and pulled in 77.6 percent of the vote in DeKalb County compared to Romney’s 20.9 percent.
"The president challenged congressional Republicans to come up with “concrete plans that will actually reduce inequality, build the middle class, provide more ladders of opportunity to the poor.”
The BEST way is get rid of the dem control of those urban areas and replace them with repubs.
Large cities have the biggest problem of income inequality....yeah, lets make this all about a stupid left vs right argument. If only those left wing voter would have voted for Republicans, it would have magically solved everything.
Which party controls these areas? It just might be a correlation.
Earning an income is not a form of pain or punishment, therefore, how can any earned income be equivalent to suffering?
Is it now "suffering" to earn/have less than someone else? If this is so, then compared to the Obamas, Nancy Pelosi, the Koch brothers, Tiger Woods and the royal family of Great Britain, my suffering eclipses that of a person enduring a medieval "purification" or an Inquisition "confession." Never has anyone suffered so greatly as I, when compared to the opulent lifestyle of the President and the First Lady.
That is the definition of suffering now? I have less luxury and comfort than someone else?
Which party controls these areas? It just might be a correlation.
No parties control these cities, they are filled with free Americans that can do what they want. The income disparity comes from these cities having very high paying jobs besides the minimum wage jobs.
There is more to it that idiotic left vs right logic.
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