The war on Poverty and how it is affecting the economy.(15 Trillion Dollars spent)

[rightwinger]

Who would fill the vacuum

EU, S Korea, Japan

All have more social programs and more modern infrastructure because they can lean on us to defend them

Please explain for us all how having more social programs, making citizens dependent on government instead of personal responsibility a good thing?

The question, by the way, is who would fill the vacuum and how would that be great for America?

What "modern infrastructure" does the EU, South Korea or Japan have which we do not.

Please do not go to high-speed rail. The only one in the US that pays its way is the Acela line in the NE with about 40 million potential riders along the line. Any others in the US are losing money as are most in Europe and Japan. If anything, we should expand and improve our FREIGHT lines.

Because helping Americans who need help is a better use of our tax dollars than nation building and propping up foreign empires
Our infrastructure problems go beyond high speed rail......it includes roads, bridges, communications and power grids, water distribution
All are substandard...what you expect when you spend 47 cents on every military dollar in the world

."
What does this even mean? Quote from you. "All are substandard...what you expect when you spend 47 cents on every military dollar in the world."

As you know, the vast majority of roads, bridges, and water distribution are all LOCAL matters. Yes, our power grid is extremely vulnerable to a terrorist attack. What has Lame Duck President Obama proposed for our power grid?

Doesn't matter if it is state, local or federal...it is still tax dollars going overseas

Federal money has always "trickled down" to help pay for major infrastructure improvements in the form of grants

Our power grid is ancient and inefficient. Beyond being vulnerable, it lacks the backups and efficient re routing around breakages

So now we have reached a point where it doesn't matter where the tax payers money comes from? Amusing.

Here in Tallahassee, Florida, we have added a major new road joining two northern areas of the county and cutting a great deal of time between the two areas. It was financed by bonds and has a nominal toll to pay for the construction.

Our Capital Circle, originally a truck route running around 3/4th of the outskirts of the city. It was two lanes and has been enlarged to a 4 lane divided lighted highway. It is a Federal Highway. A major subdivision is being built in the SE section of the CC. Florida has a concurrency law that requires developers, in other words, the homeowners in that area, to pay for the needed infrastructure. That massive (for us) cost has been paid for by bonds. Those bonds are being paid from monthly payments by the homeowners of that area to our tax collector over the next 15 years.

Florida is fiscally sound including our government retirement plan, one of the few in the nation. Leon County is a progressive county as the state capital and two universities, a major community college and a major technical school. Yet our state has a Republican governor, house, and senate.

You failed to answer a question I posed. Let me post it again for your convenience.

What does this even mean? Quote from you. "All are substandard...what you expect when you spend 47 cents on every military dollar in the world."

What does it mean?

It means we, as a nation, make trade offs
We always find the money to do and the military and engage in wars of questionable value. We always find the money for more prisons

Yet, when we talk about funding for infrastructure, higher education, healthcare, helping the poor....our pockets are empty

 

[rightwinger]

..what you expect when you spend 47 cents on every military dollar in the world."

we are the world's policeman so we have to spend the most. Imagine how peaceful the world would be if we spent 100%

How peaceful the world would of been if the liberals didn't put restrictions on our military to provide peace. If America could of crossed the 39th parallel, the Korean war would of ended differently. The Vietnam war might of never happened. If the Radical Islamic Fundamentalist who took the Iran embassy were bombed to hell, then the uprising that Jimmy(the peanut) Carter would of been put down, instead of the Air Force having to stand down(I know I was there with the F-4s fully loaded but stopped by the spineless weiner). If more people were FORCED to join the military instead of sitting in their parents basement collecting welfare, then the economy of the US would be a much better place, but since the citizens were FORCED to buy unaffordable healthcare, that just put more people into poverty. Liberals are the dumbest people on the planet.

Why we don't elect conservatives

 

[Mikeoxenormous]

Please explain for us all how having more social programs, making citizens dependent on government instead of personal responsibility a good thing?

The question, by the way, is who would fill the vacuum and how would that be great for America?

What "modern infrastructure" does the EU, South Korea or Japan have which we do not.

Please do not go to high-speed rail. The only one in the US that pays its way is the Acela line in the NE with about 40 million potential riders along the line. Any others in the US are losing money as are most in Europe and Japan. If anything, we should expand and improve our FREIGHT lines.

Because helping Americans who need help is a better use of our tax dollars than nation building and propping up foreign empires
Our infrastructure problems go beyond high speed rail......it includes roads, bridges, communications and power grids, water distribution
All are substandard...what you expect when you spend 47 cents on every military dollar in the world

."
What does this even mean? Quote from you. "All are substandard...what you expect when you spend 47 cents on every military dollar in the world."

As you know, the vast majority of roads, bridges, and water distribution are all LOCAL matters. Yes, our power grid is extremely vulnerable to a terrorist attack. What has Lame Duck President Obama proposed for our power grid?

Doesn't matter if it is state, local or federal...it is still tax dollars going overseas

Federal money has always "trickled down" to help pay for major infrastructure improvements in the form of grants

Our power grid is ancient and inefficient. Beyond being vulnerable, it lacks the backups and efficient re routing around breakages

So now we have reached a point where it doesn't matter where the tax payers money comes from? Amusing.

Here in Tallahassee, Florida, we have added a major new road joining two northern areas of the county and cutting a great deal of time between the two areas. It was financed by bonds and has a nominal toll to pay for the construction.

Our Capital Circle, originally a truck route running around 3/4th of the outskirts of the city. It was two lanes and has been enlarged to a 4 lane divided lighted highway. It is a Federal Highway. A major subdivision is being built in the SE section of the CC. Florida has a concurrency law that requires developers, in other words, the homeowners in that area, to pay for the needed infrastructure. That massive (for us) cost has been paid for by bonds. Those bonds are being paid from monthly payments by the homeowners of that area to our tax collector over the next 15 years.

Florida is fiscally sound including our government retirement plan, one of the few in the nation. Leon County is a progressive county as the state capital and two universities, a major community college and a major technical school. Yet our state has a Republican governor, house, and senate.

You failed to answer a question I posed. Let me post it again for your convenience.

What does this even mean? Quote from you. "All are substandard...what you expect when you spend 47 cents on every military dollar in the world."

What does it mean?

It means we, as a nation, make trade offs
We always find the money to do and the military and engage in wars of questionable value. We always find the money for more prisons

Yet, when we talk about funding for infrastructure, higher education, healthcare, helping the poor....our pockets are empty

How after 7 1/2 years of the most Socialist Dictator in the history of the US, our pockets are empty? Wasn't he supposed to fundamentally transform America? Bring Hope and Change? To lower the oceans and heal the planet? You are pointing out exactly why liberalism is all about failure. And stupid people vote Dumbocrat.

 

[gipper]

..what you expect when you spend 47 cents on every military dollar in the world."

we are the world's policeman so we have to spend the most. Imagine how peaceful the world would be if we spent 100%

How peaceful the world would of been if the liberals didn't put restrictions on our military to provide peace. If America could of crossed the 39th parallel, the Korean war would of ended differently. The Vietnam war might of never happened. If the Radical Islamic Fundamentalist who took the Iran embassy were bombed to hell, then the uprising that Jimmy(the peanut) Carter would of been put down, instead of the Air Force having to stand down(I know I was there with the F-4s fully loaded but stopped by the spineless weiner). If more people were FORCED to join the military instead of sitting in their parents basement collecting welfare, then the economy of the US would be a much better place, but since the citizens were FORCED to buy unaffordable healthcare, that just put more people into poverty. Liberals are the dumbest people on the planet.

Not 39th, but 38th parallel. And we did cross it and went all the way to the Yalu River, but then shit hit the fan when the Chinese invaded. The asshole Gen MacArthur refused to believe China would enter the war even though he was warned repeatedly by Army Intel. Then he demanded Truman drop a-bombs on the Chinese. Good job....

Mac was a primadonna of the worst kind. He would fly over N. Korea when the weather permitted and then return to his cushy palace in Japan, thinking all is well. His actions resulted in thousands of deaths.

 

[Mikeoxenormous]

..what you expect when you spend 47 cents on every military dollar in the world."

we are the world's policeman so we have to spend the most. Imagine how peaceful the world would be if we spent 100%

How peaceful the world would of been if the liberals didn't put restrictions on our military to provide peace. If America could of crossed the 39th parallel, the Korean war would of ended differently. The Vietnam war might of never happened. If the Radical Islamic Fundamentalist who took the Iran embassy were bombed to hell, then the uprising that Jimmy(the peanut) Carter would of been put down, instead of the Air Force having to stand down(I know I was there with the F-4s fully loaded but stopped by the spineless weiner). If more people were FORCED to join the military instead of sitting in their parents basement collecting welfare, then the economy of the US would be a much better place, but since the citizens were FORCED to buy unaffordable healthcare, that just put more people into poverty. Liberals are the dumbest people on the planet.

Why we don't elect conservatives

..what you expect when you spend 47 cents on every military dollar in the world."

we are the world's policeman so we have to spend the most. Imagine how peaceful the world would be if we spent 100%

How peaceful the world would of been if the liberals didn't put restrictions on our military to provide peace. If America could of crossed the 39th parallel, the Korean war would of ended differently. The Vietnam war might of never happened. If the Radical Islamic Fundamentalist who took the Iran embassy were bombed to hell, then the uprising that Jimmy(the peanut) Carter would of been put down, instead of the Air Force having to stand down(I know I was there with the F-4s fully loaded but stopped by the spineless weiner). If more people were FORCED to join the military instead of sitting in their parents basement collecting welfare, then the economy of the US would be a much better place, but since the citizens were FORCED to buy unaffordable healthcare, that just put more people into poverty. Liberals are the dumbest people on the planet.

Not 39th, but 38th parallel. And we did cross it and went all the way to the Yalu River, but then shit hit the fan when the Chinese invaded. The asshole Gen MacArthur refused to believe China would enter the war even though he was warned repeatedly by Army Intel. Then he demanded Truman drop a-bombs on the Chinese. Good job....

Mac was a primadonna of the worst kind. He would fly over N. Korea when the weather permitted and then return to his cushy palace in Japan, thinking all is well. His actions resulted in thousands of deaths.

If Truman would of dropped the bomb in China like he did in Japan, would there have been a different outlook? Would the 10,000s of US soldiers been saved later on instead of being butchered in Johnsons Vietnam War? Would of save a lot of money also, but then that wasn't what LBJ wanted with his war machine.

 

[rightwinger]

Because helping Americans who need help is a better use of our tax dollars than nation building and propping up foreign empires
Our infrastructure problems go beyond high speed rail......it includes roads, bridges, communications and power grids, water distribution
All are substandard...what you expect when you spend 47 cents on every military dollar in the world

."
What does this even mean? Quote from you. "All are substandard...what you expect when you spend 47 cents on every military dollar in the world."

As you know, the vast majority of roads, bridges, and water distribution are all LOCAL matters. Yes, our power grid is extremely vulnerable to a terrorist attack. What has Lame Duck President Obama proposed for our power grid?

Doesn't matter if it is state, local or federal...it is still tax dollars going overseas

Federal money has always "trickled down" to help pay for major infrastructure improvements in the form of grants

Our power grid is ancient and inefficient. Beyond being vulnerable, it lacks the backups and efficient re routing around breakages

So now we have reached a point where it doesn't matter where the tax payers money comes from? Amusing.

Here in Tallahassee, Florida, we have added a major new road joining two northern areas of the county and cutting a great deal of time between the two areas. It was financed by bonds and has a nominal toll to pay for the construction.

Our Capital Circle, originally a truck route running around 3/4th of the outskirts of the city. It was two lanes and has been enlarged to a 4 lane divided lighted highway. It is a Federal Highway. A major subdivision is being built in the SE section of the CC. Florida has a concurrency law that requires developers, in other words, the homeowners in that area, to pay for the needed infrastructure. That massive (for us) cost has been paid for by bonds. Those bonds are being paid from monthly payments by the homeowners of that area to our tax collector over the next 15 years.

Florida is fiscally sound including our government retirement plan, one of the few in the nation. Leon County is a progressive county as the state capital and two universities, a major community college and a major technical school. Yet our state has a Republican governor, house, and senate.

You failed to answer a question I posed. Let me post it again for your convenience.

What does this even mean? Quote from you. "All are substandard...what you expect when you spend 47 cents on every military dollar in the world."

What does it mean?

It means we, as a nation, make trade offs
We always find the money to do and the military and engage in wars of questionable value. We always find the money for more prisons

Yet, when we talk about funding for infrastructure, higher education, healthcare, helping the poor....our pockets are empty

How after 7 1/2 years of the most Socialist Dictator in the history of the US, our pockets are empty? Wasn't he supposed to fundamentally transform America? Bring Hope and Change? To lower the oceans and heal the planet? You are pointing out exactly why liberalism is all about failure. And stupid people vote Dumbocrat.

Where do you get the idea our pockets are empty?

There is a net worth of $123 trillion in private hands. $30 trillion has been added to household wealth since Obama became President

 

[Mikeoxenormous]

Yet, when we talk about funding for infrastructure, higher education, healthcare, helping the poor....our pockets are empty

Get off the drugs man, for if you want to debate me, what ever is left of your mind, just cant compete.
By the way nice lie there on what Obama has added, the most in poverty ever, 1 in 5(used to be 1 in 6) children go to bed hungry, FORCED healthcare so if you don't pay you get punished, and many other things that the next president is going to inherit.

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

Where do you get the idea our pockets are empty?

and so we can steal from the rich at the point of a liberal gun.

 

[rightwinger]

Where do you get the idea our pockets are empty?

and so we can steal from the rich at the point of a liberal gun.

Steal from the rich?

Doesn't seem like we are doing a very good job

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

Where do you get the idea our pockets are empty?

and so we can steal from the rich at the point of a liberal gun.

Steal from the rich?

Doesn't seem like we are doing a very good job

1) you don't want to do a good job stealing at gun point!!!
2) top 1% pay 44% of all income taxes so you are doing good violent job at gun point!!
3) its never enough for a liberal since a liberal will lack the IQ to see that socialism makes things worse not better!

 

[rightwinger]

Where do you get the idea our pockets are empty?

and so we can steal from the rich at the point of a liberal gun.

Steal from the rich?

Doesn't seem like we are doing a very good job

1) you don't want to do a good job stealing at gun point!!!
2) top 1% pay 44% of all income taxes so you are doing good violent job at gun point!!
3) its never enough for a liberal since a liberal will lack the IQ to see that socialism makes things worse not better!

Those who pay the most income taxes are doing so because they have the most INCOME

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

Where do you get the idea our pockets are empty?

and so we can steal from the rich at the point of a liberal gun.

Steal from the rich?

Doesn't seem like we are doing a very good job

1) you don't want to do a good job stealing at gun point!!!
2) top 1% pay 44% of all income taxes so you are doing good violent job at gun point!!
3) its never enough for a liberal since a liberal will lack the IQ to see that socialism makes things worse not better!

Those who pay the most income taxes are doing so because they have the most INCOME

yes because liberal corporate taxes, unions, and deficits make it too hard for many to earn good incomes. And this is not to mention the liberal war on families schools and religion!!

 

[Markle]

5

Please explain for us all how having more social programs, making citizens dependent on government instead of personal responsibility a good thing?

The question, by the way, is who would fill the vacuum and how would that be great for America?

What "modern infrastructure" does the EU, South Korea or Japan have which we do not.

Please do not go to high-speed rail. The only one in the US that pays its way is the Acela line in the NE with about 40 million potential riders along the line. Any others in the US are losing money as are most in Europe and Japan. If anything, we should expand and improve our FREIGHT lines.

Because helping Americans who need help is a better use of our tax dollars than nation building and propping up foreign empires
Our infrastructure problems go beyond high speed rail......it includes roads, bridges, communications and power grids, water distribution
All are substandard...what you expect when you spend 47 cents on every military dollar in the world

."
What does this even mean? Quote from you. "All are substandard...what you expect when you spend 47 cents on every military dollar in the world."

As you know, the vast majority of roads, bridges, and water distribution are all LOCAL matters. Yes, our power grid is extremely vulnerable to a terrorist attack. What has Lame Duck President Obama proposed for our power grid?

Doesn't matter if it is state, local or federal...it is still tax dollars going overseas

Federal money has always "trickled down" to help pay for major infrastructure improvements in the form of grants

Our power grid is ancient and inefficient. Beyond being vulnerable, it lacks the backups and efficient re routing around breakages

So now we have reached a point where it doesn't matter where the tax payers money comes from? Amusing.

Here in Tallahassee, Florida, we have added a major new road joining two northern areas of the county and cutting a great deal of time between the two areas. It was financed by bonds and has a nominal toll to pay for the construction.

Our Capital Circle, originally a truck route running around 3/4th of the outskirts of the city. It was two lanes and has been enlarged to a 4 lane divided lighted highway. It is a Federal Highway. A major subdivision is being built in the SE section of the CC. Florida has a concurrency law that requires developers, in other words, the homeowners in that area, to pay for the needed infrastructure. That massive (for us) cost has been paid for by bonds. Those bonds are being paid from monthly payments by the homeowners of that area to our tax collector over the next 15 years.

Florida is fiscally sound including our government retirement plan, one of the few in the nation. Leon County is a progressive county as the state capital and two universities, a major community college and a major technical school. Yet our state has a Republican governor, house, and senate.

You failed to answer a question I posed. Let me post it again for your convenience.

What does this even mean? Quote from you. "All are substandard...what you expect when you spend 47 cents on every military dollar in the world."

What does it mean?

Quote from you. "All are substandard...what you expect when you spend 47 cents on every military dollar in the world."

"It means we, as a nation, make trade offs
We always find the money to do and the military and engage in wars of questionable value. We always find the money for more prisons."

Yet, when we talk about funding for infrastructure, higher education, healthcare, helping the poor....our pockets are empty

Quote from you. "All are substandard...what you expect when you spend 47 cents on every military dollar in the world."
Were you stoned when you made that post?

"It means we, as a nation, make trade offs
We always find the money to do and the military and engage in wars of questionable value. We always find the money for more prisons."

Yet, when we talk about funding for infrastructure, higher education, healthcare, helping the poor....our pockets are empty

Did You take all that for something which is not true?

Our military is underfunded and in dire trouble.

We don't have enough prisons and we are releasing dangerous criminals onto our streets.

Our infrastructure, in my area, is doing just fine, North Florida, Central Florida, and South Georgia.

We have two Universities, a Community College and a Technical school just in our county. The student number grows each year. We have a nationally ranked college football and baseball teams.

Just ask Lame Duck President Obama has solved healthcare with Obamacare, has he not? Or was that a lie?

We have over 60 programs to help the poor. Since LBJ put the "War on Poverty" into action, we have spent over $15 TRILLION and we have the same rate of those living in poverty or higher. Far more on Food Stamps and all sort of government handouts.

Oh, what does this mean" Quote from you. "...what you expect when you spend 47 cents on every military dollar in the world."

Quick, come back when you are prepared to join the real world.

 

[Moonglow]

The richest woman in Venezuela is Hugo Chavez's daughter

• Diario las Americas claims that Maria Gabriela Chavez, 35, has $4.2billion in assets held in American and Andorran banks

• Hugo Chavez famously declared 'being rich is bad' and during his lifetime railed against the wealthy for being lazy and gluttonous

• Efforts to determine Chavez's wealth have been made before, without much luck

• It happens everytime when socialism/liberalism/Marxism/fascism/progressivism is enacted in a country. Everyone else must be poor and miserable, but those in charge get millions and billions of dollars. You dumbass liberals want government cheese and shit healthcare, you got it, want to be like Venezuela? Vote for the Vagina candidate. Clintons are worth 150 billion dollars, have you received any of that money? Not one cent. Stupid people vote dumbocrat.

I apologize for mistaking the wealth of the Clintons, it is 150 million dollars. Still how much has the dipshit liberal received from the redistribution of wealth that Obama promised? How is that Hope and Change.....

Around 10k a year is what I get, on top of all the other free shit I get, well that's really my fecal feliac side confessing..

 

[Moonglow]

Where do you get the idea our pockets are empty?

and so we can steal from the rich at the point of a liberal gun.

Steal from the rich?

Doesn't seem like we are doing a very good job

1) you don't want to do a good job stealing at gun point!!!
2) top 1% pay 44% of all income taxes so you are doing good violent job at gun point!!
3) its never enough for a liberal since a liberal will lack the IQ to see that socialism makes things worse not better!

Those who pay the most income taxes are doing so because they have the most INCOME

yes because liberal corporate taxes, unions, and deficits make it too hard for many to earn good incomes. And this is not to mention the liberal war on families schools and religion!!

When has it changed during GOP control? I mean, please, inform us.....

 

[rightwinger]

5

Because helping Americans who need help is a better use of our tax dollars than nation building and propping up foreign empires
Our infrastructure problems go beyond high speed rail......it includes roads, bridges, communications and power grids, water distribution
All are substandard...what you expect when you spend 47 cents on every military dollar in the world

."
What does this even mean? Quote from you. "All are substandard...what you expect when you spend 47 cents on every military dollar in the world."

As you know, the vast majority of roads, bridges, and water distribution are all LOCAL matters. Yes, our power grid is extremely vulnerable to a terrorist attack. What has Lame Duck President Obama proposed for our power grid?

Doesn't matter if it is state, local or federal...it is still tax dollars going overseas

Federal money has always "trickled down" to help pay for major infrastructure improvements in the form of grants

Our power grid is ancient and inefficient. Beyond being vulnerable, it lacks the backups and efficient re routing around breakages

So now we have reached a point where it doesn't matter where the tax payers money comes from? Amusing.

Here in Tallahassee, Florida, we have added a major new road joining two northern areas of the county and cutting a great deal of time between the two areas. It was financed by bonds and has a nominal toll to pay for the construction.

Our Capital Circle, originally a truck route running around 3/4th of the outskirts of the city. It was two lanes and has been enlarged to a 4 lane divided lighted highway. It is a Federal Highway. A major subdivision is being built in the SE section of the CC. Florida has a concurrency law that requires developers, in other words, the homeowners in that area, to pay for the needed infrastructure. That massive (for us) cost has been paid for by bonds. Those bonds are being paid from monthly payments by the homeowners of that area to our tax collector over the next 15 years.

Florida is fiscally sound including our government retirement plan, one of the few in the nation. Leon County is a progressive county as the state capital and two universities, a major community college and a major technical school. Yet our state has a Republican governor, house, and senate.

You failed to answer a question I posed. Let me post it again for your convenience.

What does this even mean? Quote from you. "All are substandard...what you expect when you spend 47 cents on every military dollar in the world."

What does it mean?

Quote from you. "All are substandard...what you expect when you spend 47 cents on every military dollar in the world."

"It means we, as a nation, make trade offs
We always find the money to do and the military and engage in wars of questionable value. We always find the money for more prisons."

Yet, when we talk about funding for infrastructure, higher education, healthcare, helping the poor....our pockets are empty

Quote from you. "All are substandard...what you expect when you spend 47 cents on every military dollar in the world."
Were you stoned when you made that post?

"It means we, as a nation, make trade offs
We always find the money to do and the military and engage in wars of questionable value. We always find the money for more prisons."

Yet, when we talk about funding for infrastructure, higher education, healthcare, helping the poor....our pockets are empty

Did You take all that for something which is not true?

Our military is underfunded and in dire trouble.

We don't have enough prisons and we are releasing dangerous criminals onto our streets.

Our infrastructure, in my area, is doing just fine, North Florida, Central Florida, and South Georgia.

We have two Universities, a Community College and a Technical school just in our county. The student number grows each year. We have a nationally ranked college football and baseball teams.

Just ask Lame Duck President Obama has solved healthcare with Obamacare, has he not? Or was that a lie?

We have over 60 programs to help the poor. Since LBJ put the "War on Poverty" into action, we have spent over $15 TRILLION and we have the same rate of those living in poverty or higher. Far more on Food Stamps and all sort of government handouts.

Oh, what does this mean" Quote from you. "...what you expect when you spend 47 cents on every military dollar in the world."

Quick, come back when you are prepared to join the real world.

Again, we spend 47 cents out of every military dollar in the world, we have a military stronger than the next eight nations combined.....and you call that underfunded

We have 2.5 million filling our prisons, vastly more than anywhere in the world....you claim it is not enough

Spending money to help those who desperately need help is better than spending on a bloated military and overloaded prison system

 

[Mikeoxenormous]

.

The richest woman in Venezuela is Hugo Chavez's daughter

• Diario las Americas claims that Maria Gabriela Chavez, 35, has $4.2billion in assets held in American and Andorran banks

• Hugo Chavez famously declared 'being rich is bad' and during his lifetime railed against the wealthy for being lazy and gluttonous

• Efforts to determine Chavez's wealth have been made before, without much luck

• It happens everytime when socialism/liberalism/Marxism/fascism/progressivism is enacted in a country. Everyone else must be poor and miserable, but those in charge get millions and billions of dollars. You dumbass liberals want government cheese and shit healthcare, you got it, want to be like Venezuela? Vote for the Vagina candidate. Clintons are worth 150 million dollars, have you received any of that money? Not one cent. Stupid people vote dumbocrat.

I apologize for mistaking the wealth of the Clintons, it is 150 million dollars. Still how much has the dipshit liberal received from the redistribution of wealth that Obama promised? How is that Hope and Change.....

Around 10k a year is what I get, on top of all the other free shit I get, well that's really my fecal feliac side confessing..

At one time I only made 5k a year and do you know what I did? I didn't sit in my parents basement bitching and moaning that life isn't fair. Instead of working at McD's making $2.10 cents an hour, I started looking for other higher paying jobs. I went to work as a short order chief at Bill Knapp's making $2.15 an hour. After 1 year I was up to $2.25 an hour but then the liberals in charge raised minimum wage to $2.25 and I was right back getting paid entry level wages. So I knew this wasn't going to be the way to get rich, and I entered the Military. Talk about a pay cut. I was making about $1 a day plus perks, but what I really got was skills. I worked on A-10s for 3 years in Arizona, and F-15s in Virginia for 3 years. Went to work at Home Depot at $6.50 an hour(not taking welfare during any of this time since employed) which was $1.00 more than Minimum wage, for 3 years, and when an overseas job opened up for experienced technicians for F-15s paying $70,000 a year, I took it. I went to Saudi Arabia, as a contractor, my experience from the Military enabled me to get this uber Job, took my family with me, saw the world, and came back quite well off. There are many jobs out there that you have to get your hand dirty or work up a sweat(110 degrees in the shade of a hanger working on jets) but I enjoyed that life for 5 1/2 years. When the liberal nutjob radical Islamic fundamentalist terrorist blew up the marine barracks in Dhahran Saudi Arabia, I knew it was time to come back. Since then my SKILLS of troubleshooting and critical thinking enabled me to work in building maintenance, where once again, the pay is excellent. So bash the military as spending too much money, while you welfare puke get paid more than a military member and do nothing for the world except POLLUTE it with your excrement and CO2.

 

[Markle]

Where do you get the idea our pockets are empty?

and so we can steal from the rich at the point of a liberal gun.

Steal from the rich?

Doesn't seem like we are doing a very good job

1) you don't want to do a good job stealing at gun point!!!
2) top 1% pay 44% of all income taxes so you are doing good violent job at gun point!!
3) its never enough for a liberal since a liberal will lack the IQ to see that socialism makes things worse not better!

Those who pay the most income taxes are doing so because they have the most INCOME

Shouldn't EVERYONE contribute income taxes to support America?

 

[Markle]

5

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What does this even mean? Quote from you. "All are substandard...what you expect when you spend 47 cents on every military dollar in the world."

As you know, the vast majority of roads, bridges, and water distribution are all LOCAL matters. Yes, our power grid is extremely vulnerable to a terrorist attack. What has Lame Duck President Obama proposed for our power grid?

Doesn't matter if it is state, local or federal...it is still tax dollars going overseas

Federal money has always "trickled down" to help pay for major infrastructure improvements in the form of grants

Our power grid is ancient and inefficient. Beyond being vulnerable, it lacks the backups and efficient re routing around breakages

So now we have reached a point where it doesn't matter where the tax payers money comes from? Amusing.

Here in Tallahassee, Florida, we have added a major new road joining two northern areas of the county and cutting a great deal of time between the two areas. It was financed by bonds and has a nominal toll to pay for the construction.

Our Capital Circle, originally a truck route running around 3/4th of the outskirts of the city. It was two lanes and has been enlarged to a 4 lane divided lighted highway. It is a Federal Highway. A major subdivision is being built in the SE section of the CC. Florida has a concurrency law that requires developers, in other words, the homeowners in that area, to pay for the needed infrastructure. That massive (for us) cost has been paid for by bonds. Those bonds are being paid from monthly payments by the homeowners of that area to our tax collector over the next 15 years.

Florida is fiscally sound including our government retirement plan, one of the few in the nation. Leon County is a progressive county as the state capital and two universities, a major community college and a major technical school. Yet our state has a Republican governor, house, and senate.

You failed to answer a question I posed. Let me post it again for your convenience.

What does this even mean? Quote from you. "All are substandard...what you expect when you spend 47 cents on every military dollar in the world."

What does it mean?

Quote from you. "All are substandard...what you expect when you spend 47 cents on every military dollar in the world."

"It means we, as a nation, make trade offs
We always find the money to do and the military and engage in wars of questionable value. We always find the money for more prisons."

Yet, when we talk about funding for infrastructure, higher education, healthcare, helping the poor....our pockets are empty

Quote from you. "All are substandard...what you expect when you spend 47 cents on every military dollar in the world."
Were you stoned when you made that post?

"It means we, as a nation, make trade offs
We always find the money to do and the military and engage in wars of questionable value. We always find the money for more prisons."

Yet, when we talk about funding for infrastructure, higher education, healthcare, helping the poor....our pockets are empty

Did You take all that for something which is not true?

Our military is underfunded and in dire trouble.

We don't have enough prisons and we are releasing dangerous criminals onto our streets.

Our infrastructure, in my area, is doing just fine, North Florida, Central Florida, and South Georgia.

We have two Universities, a Community College and a Technical school just in our county. The student number grows each year. We have a nationally ranked college football and baseball teams.

Just ask Lame Duck President Obama has solved healthcare with Obamacare, has he not? Or was that a lie?

We have over 60 programs to help the poor. Since LBJ put the "War on Poverty" into action, we have spent over $15 TRILLION and we have the same rate of those living in poverty or higher. Far more on Food Stamps and all sort of government handouts.

Oh, what does this mean" Quote from you. "...what you expect when you spend 47 cents on every military dollar in the world."

Quick, come back when you are prepared to join the real world.

Again, we spend 47 cents out of every military dollar in the world, we have a military stronger than the next eight nations combined.....and you call that underfunded

We have 2.5 million filling our prisons, vastly more than anywhere in the world....you claim it is not enough

Spending money to help those who desperately need help is better than spending on a bloated military and overloaded prison system

Please show us your unbiased source and link showing that we spend half of all the money spent in the world combined for our defense. How too do you place a figure on what Russia or China spend we they tell us what they spend. How far do their dollars go when they use slave or near slave labor for many of their resources. China does not count any of their rocket systems in their military budget, that is considered research. Their massive cargo shipping "company" also is not counted as part of their military budget in spite of the fact that it operates under the guidance of the Red Army.

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

Shouldn't EVERYONE contribute income taxes to support America?

only to extent absolutely necessary since country was formed to oppose govt and taxes. Do you understand?