The rich and the doing wells and have 5 figure jobs people are totally oblivious of just how bad it is out there....they are immune
Why do you say it is the fault of "the Right" - as opposed to the fault of incumbents in Washington? Obama exempted the 6 WalMart heirs from healthcare requirements - those each worth from $14 BILLION to $25 BILLION each. When Obama and the Democrats controlled both sides of Congress - what did they change??? NOTHING.
Same breaks for the rich. Some special treatments. Same lobbyists. They changed nothing, when they could have changed everything.
When it comes to insider trading, taking lobbyist money, voting on tax exemptions etc - BOTH sides DO EXACTLY THE SAME VOTING.
I stopped buying "the big lie" that there is a partisan fight at all. They say opposite words, but end up voting/doing exactly the same at every substantive level. WITH NO DEBATE, BOTH SIDES agree to INCREASE the massive military budget - despite the wars supposedly over - and BOTH voted in that bill to decrease civil rights.
What is the different between "the left" and "the right" in ANY REAL terms? Other than words? Both sides end up "compromising" to give the other side what they want - meaning the argue furiously in a trillion words - then agree to vote exactly the same, claiming the other side made them do it.
It's sickening.
Give it a rest, your lying. You can convince whomever you'd like of whatever you'd like. It won't make it true.
Ever hear of the term: "path of least resistance".. It's human nature (Genrally) to gain the most by doing the least. Welfare entitlements corrupt human nature!
Democrats try to lure jobs back to U.S.
Senate bill offers payroll-tax breaks, cut in subsidies for outsourcing
“We’re going to take away the incentives corporations have to send our jobs overseas, and give them powerful new incentives to keep American jobs in America,” said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in remarks on the Senate floor.
Introduced last week by Sen. Dick Durbin, an Illinois Democrat, the bill also would end subsidies for firms that move facilities abroad."
Senate Democrats target job outsourcing - MarketWatch
To suggest that people would stay in poverty, voluntarily, because it's easier would be to suggest that a person would leave a spike in their foot if it were easier than pulling it out.
Being poor sucks. Being hungry sucks. Worrying about money all the time sucks. It's not easy at all. Living in squalor sucks. Being bored all the time because you have no reason to leave your home sucks. No one would remain in an awful position like that simply because they're lazy. Doing whatever they can and fighting until their last breath is human nature.
Whenever I hear about poverty in America this video comes to mind:
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Great, but it should have been done long ago and I'll bet there are loopholes galore but I thought the left didn't like corporate tax breaks?
Wait, never mind........this is from over a year ago. So what happened?
I find this statement kind of galling:
Being poor in America, you have little security. Having a car, a roof and a TV (as if they're rare or expensive) is hardly representative of your ability to afford health insurance or provide for yourself or your family in old age. We live in a consumer society filled with cheap electronics. The working poor have ample access to Wiis, as they are affordable. Health insurance, however ...
I think this is what we need to be focusing on. It really doesn't have a whole lot to do with left or right. Both sides are on the same payroll. Or at least similar ones. Both sides are bought and paid for. That is the real problem. And it will only go away once money no longer determines elections. A candidate who does not function as an employee for the ones who paid for their campaign finds himself quickly unemployed after the next election.
To suggest that people would stay in poverty, voluntarily, because it's easier would be to suggest that a person would leave a spike in their foot if it were easier than pulling it out. Being poor sucks. Being hungry sucks. Worrying about money all the time sucks. It's not easy at all. Living in squalor sucks. Being bored all the time because you have no reason to leave your home sucks. No one would remain in an awful position like that simply because they're lazy. Doing whatever they can and fighting until their last breath is human nature.
That would be the equivalent of running a marathon speed wise.
Whats a average time for an amateur to run a marathon and a half marathon? - Yahoo! Answers
Walking is closer to 3 mph. So that mean about 12-14 hours walking--6 to 7 hours each way. Add an eight hours shift with a half hour break, we're talking 20 - 23 hours a day just in work and transport back and forth from work. That's a pretty rough schedule.
"According to the U.S. Census Bureau, a higher percentage of Americans is living in extreme poverty than they have ever measured before."
All the while Wall Street is clamoring for QE3.
Just to get it out of the way.....I'm NOT claiming this is the norm and I have no evidence that shows it anything but the fringe, but have you seen the things drug addicts are willing to live with?
Inflation is at historical lows.
So then we are agreed that anyone who, by their own volition, abuses social support systems and stays in poverty is a tiny minority?
Tell that to those going to the grocery store. It's another government twisting of numbers. It's being held down by poor housing figures. A double wack for the lower classes. Pay more while they are losing more.
You are confusing the increased cost of everything due to increased fuel costs, as we approach world peak oil, with inflation as result of QE.
QE being a huge part of the problem.
Food Price Watch - February 2011
What's Driving Food Prices in 2011?
Tell that to those going to the grocery store. It's another government twisting of numbers. It's being held down by poor housing figures. A double wack for the lower classes. Pay more while they are losing more.