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Old 05-05-2017, 10:30 PM
 
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5.6 million people INTERNATIONALLY!

How about saving some Americans first?
Why?
Americans are, in large part, less in need of being saved.




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You know if all the liberals pool their money together, they can solve real problems without increasing taxes.

Actions speak louder than words. Do what you say and show us you can put your money where your mouth is.
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They enjoy pooling OTHER FOLKS money far more.
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Because Liberals wanna spend everyone else's money, not theirs.
So clueless these types of posts
If "liberals", whatever the hell a liberal is, want tax money to pay for a program, then liberal's tax money is going to the program. They are pooling their money and they are putting their money where their mouths are.

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Old 05-05-2017, 10:46 PM
 
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Why aren't you also calling for rich conservatives to pool their money and contribute to and coddle the MIC they love so much? Would that be too much like looking at both sides of the coin?
That makes no sense. The rich Dem hawks love the MIC just as much: the Clintons, Obama, etc... they're warmongers.
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Old 05-05-2017, 10:49 PM
 
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Liberals are only generous with other people's money.
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Old 05-05-2017, 10:50 PM
 
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Spot on. Really, this country is so completely split. I would love to have blue states operate independently of red states.
Many people would love that. California has 34% of the US Welfare population. Let California fund that without Federal aid.
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Old 05-05-2017, 10:51 PM
 
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Why?
Americans are, in large part, less in need of being saved

So clueless these types of posts
If "liberals", whatever the hell a liberal is, want tax money to pay for a program, then liberal's tax money is going to the program. They are pooling their money and they are putting their money where their mouths are.
It cracks me up the way a lot of people on here use the word 'liberals' as though it's to be taken as some kind of insult. It's not an insult at all.
Liberal means open minded to new ideas, behaviour and opinions and broadening ones general knowledge and experience.
Who wouldn't want that? It's very odd to me. What you are saying when you use the word against someone is that you are the opposite of all those things.

I also have to laugh at the way they all use the new buzzword 'snowflake' as an insult, when it's actually about the least offensive word in the dictionary.
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Old 05-05-2017, 11:16 PM
 
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You mean by doing something like creating government programs, paid for by taxes, that address those issues? Hmm...

Unsurprisingly, given the current state of politics, the general public's ability to discuss politics, and, it appears, this specific forum, your idea doesn't seem very well thought out.

First of all, as my first sentence alluded to, liberals do want to pool money together to pay for "ideas" such as health care, refugees, illegal immigrants, equal pay, etc.
No, they don't. Look at all the balking in the other thread about implementing a 25% national VAT tax to fund single payer health care for all.
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Old 05-05-2017, 11:18 PM
 
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It cracks me up the way a lot of people on here use the word 'liberals' as though it's to be taken as some kind of insult. It's not an insult at all.
Liberal means open minded to new ideas, behaviour and opinions and broadening ones general knowledge and experience.
Who wouldn't want that? It's very odd to me. What you are saying when you use the word against someone is that you are the opposite of all those things.

I also have to laugh at the way they all use the new buzzword 'snowflake' as an insult, when it's actually about the least offensive word in the dictionary.
I have absolutely no problem with the term liberal. Here is how Kennedy defines a liberal.

Quote by John F. Kennedy:

And I'll take liberal policies over conservative ones every time. I just don't want to pay for conservatives.
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Old 05-05-2017, 11:23 PM
 
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It does if you are a blue state that doesn't want to absorb the costs of red state refugees.
That's actually pretty funny. Blacks and others are fleeing blue states to live in red states.

Many U.S. Blacks Moving to South for Better Opportunities - NY Times

Why a lot of people are moving out of California - CNN - Nov. 4, 2016
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Old 05-05-2017, 11:24 PM
 
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No, they don't. Look at all the balking in the other thread about implementing a 25% national VAT tax to fund single payer health care for all.
The balking is over your math
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Old 05-05-2017, 11:34 PM
 
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Why don't we have all Trump supporters pay taxes to JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs instead of the government. We'll totally cut them off and they'll be slaves to the corporations.
Won't work. Here's why...

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"Can you name the biggest American investor? No, it's not Warren Buffett; as a matter of fact, it is not a person. It is CalPERS, the California Public Employees' Retirement System"...

Exxon
General Electric
Microsoft
Citigroup
Bank of America
Johnson & Johnson
Wal-Mart
Pfizer
Proctor & Gamble
JP Morgan Chase
The Ten Largest Holding of CalPERS, the Biggest U.S. Investor

Are California public employee union members more likely to be Dem voters or Republican voters? See what I mean?
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