Close the gap between Rich and Poor Americans.

[Truthmatters]

then leave the country if you hate us all.


then we will stop the Republicans from cheating in elections.

then our democracy will win again

 

[The Rabbi]

One thing I will note, is that the rich expect to be paid well for their work; however, they have all kinds of excuses why the average worker isn't entitled to being rewarded better for the work such perform for the wealthy. I do believe that without the workers and patronage, the wealthy would not be such. And it would be wiser, if a rich person would invest more in their workers than in say a bigger house, fancier car, or another luxury yacht.

I will note you are full of shit.

Do the poor not expect to be paid well for their work? Where did you find this person? All people expect to be paid well for their work. The difference is high income people actually do somethign to make others want to pay them well. Low income people need government and unions to insure they get paid more than they're worth.
As for the choices by the wealthy, most millionaires do not own yachts, fancy cars, or big houses.

 

[Truthmatters]

Obama is just a corporate shill, which makes rightwingers calling him a socialist who hates rich people even more laughable.

Half of his economic policies look like Mussolini's, and the other half look like Marx wrote them.

I agree that this is unusual. It is probably the Chicago in him.

Is that why your party has to cheat to try and beat him?


because you cheat anyone can tell your party is a moral void.

How can a Union supporter be a corporate shill ?


Your the party that hates unions idiot

 

[Geaux4it]

cut programs and tax code that helps the rich
increase programs that help the poor and working class

fail

 

[Edgetho]

Cut programs and tax code that helps the rich
Increase programs that help the poor and working class

And you know what will happen, moron?

The 'rich' will simply leave.

Not complicated in the least. At all.

Do you think it's so much nicer here than it is in, say; Switzerland, where a Citizen has access to every EU Country with little to no bother?

The Riviera in South of France, the Italian, Swiss and French Alps.......

Then there's the many Countries of Southern Asia desperately seeking hard currency.

The Brits foolishly did something similar in the 60's and 70's.... They taxed everything that moved and not only did wealthy Brits move (mostly to the USA) but they stopped investing their money.

It was called the ""Rolls Royce" era -- Or something like that.

Instead of people investing their money, they simply spent it on luxury items like RR's and lavish vacations.

Worked well for a (very) few years but a funny thing happened along the way.... Due to a lack of investment, the British economy virtually came to a halt.

And your post is the best example there is of why dimocrap scum should never, ever hold office.

You're stupid. I mean, mouth-breathing fucking stupid.

You want us to fold up as a Country? I think so. Otherwise, why would you propose such an incredibly stupid solution?

Check this out (you won't, you've already proven your unwillingness to learn)

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaylZrHdo1w]Bill O'Reilly On Why Many Americans Cannot Make Much Money (income inequality) - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Truthmatters]

dear fool remember you guys say all the time that its not a ZERO sum game.

let them leave the country.

we will replace them in a day or two

 

[Truthmatters]

You want this country run for their pleasure.

your a sociopath

 

[Truthmatters]

your oparty has failed so badly to reach the American people that you have cheated in elections for decades.


Your party already gave up.

Now they are just cheating everyone to stay Alive.

when your party dies Americans will get to vote again

we will again be a democracy

 

[RandomVariable]

Obama is just a corporate shill, which makes rightwingers calling him a socialist who hates rich people even more laughable.

Oh so now Obama is a corporate shill? I have news for you: all Democrats are corporate shills, and most Republicans. Corporations are an important part of this society. THey will always have influence because, cue it, corporations are people, my friend.

Corporations are not people. Corporate lawyers would call corporations national monuments if they could. Corporate lawyers are arguing corporations are people to pervert the law, nothing more, nothing less. If corporations are people so much try taking one to court for littering or disturbing the peace or physical/mental abuse or murder for that matter.

 

[The Rabbi]

Obama is just a corporate shill, which makes rightwingers calling him a socialist who hates rich people even more laughable.

Oh so now Obama is a corporate shill? I have news for you: all Democrats are corporate shills, and most Republicans. Corporations are an important part of this society. THey will always have influence because, cue it, corporations are people, my friend.

Corporations are not people. Corporate lawyers would call corporations national monuments if they could. Corporate lawyers are arguing corporations are people to pervert the law, nothing more, nothing less. If corporations are people so much try taking one to court for littering or disturbing the peace or physical/mental abuse or murder for that matter.

Take it up with the Supreme Court.

 

[ScienceRocks]

something he promised to do five years ago and now the middle class is in poverty, the rich and the illegals have gotten richer. You go Obama.


White House warns Obama could go around Congress - CenturyLink

No matter what you do, the stupid will remain poor

You can do a lot to fix stupid with the right kind of education system...Not only book smarts but skilled base education like craft schools.

The conservatives don't have a plan besides give it all to the higher class.

 

[Sallow]

something he promised to do five years ago and now the middle class is in poverty, the rich and the illegals have gotten richer. You go Obama.


White House warns Obama could go around Congress - CenturyLink

You folks are fun.

You elect politicians that hate the government and do nothing but obstruct..then complain that it is Obama's fault.


That's rich.

 

[RandomVariable]

Oh so now Obama is a corporate shill? I have news for you: all Democrats are corporate shills, and most Republicans. Corporations are an important part of this society. THey will always have influence because, cue it, corporations are people, my friend.

Corporations are not people. Corporate lawyers would call corporations national monuments if they could. Corporate lawyers are arguing corporations are people to pervert the law, nothing more, nothing less. If corporations are people so much try taking one to court for littering or disturbing the peace or physical/mental abuse or murder for that matter.

Take it up with the Supreme Court.

You agree with that ruling and I don't. What's your point? That you agree with the Supreme Court 100% of the time? The Supreme Court, in its entire history, has never made a ruling you disagree with?

 

[Edgetho]

something he promised to do five years ago and now the middle class is in poverty, the rich and the illegals have gotten richer. You go Obama.


White House warns Obama could go around Congress - CenturyLink

No matter what you do, the stupid will remain poor

You can do a lot to fix stupid with the right kind of education system...Not only book smarts but skilled base education like craft schools.

The conservatives don't have a plan besides give it all to the higher class.

Where they gonna work, genius? China? Japan? Germany?

Not here, I can tell you that much. Not with dimocrap scum ruining the economy

I worked at a Company that required a 'Business Plan' every year. Don't ask...

They top guys (half-million dollar incomes +) would submit their Business Plan with the simple words, "Same as last year".

The rest of us would have to draw up detailed plans.

Know why that is, dumb-fuck?

Because if you're already the best, you don't need to change. Republicans kick ass, dimocrap scum fuck things up.

And for over 100 years, this Country did just fine... Until dimocrap scum came along.

Now look..... The young have the highest unemployment rate since the Great Depression. So do Blacks.

The young also have the highest College Debt and the lowest chance of landing a good job -- In American History. Ever.

And the same people who fucked the economy up are trying to tell us they know how to fix it?

Great.

dimocraps are too stupid for words.

 

[Truthmatters]

something he promised to do five years ago and now the middle class is in poverty, the rich and the illegals have gotten richer. You go Obama.


White House warns Obama could go around Congress - CenturyLink

You folks are fun.

You elect politicians that hate the government and do nothing but obstruct..then complain that it is Obama's fault.


That's rich.

they draft and back laws and then VOTE WHOLESALE against the SAME bills ONLY because Obama said he agrees with them.


their dishonesty is rampant

 

[ScienceRocks]

something he promised to do five years ago and now the middle class is in poverty, the rich and the illegals have gotten richer. You go Obama.


White House warns Obama could go around Congress - CenturyLink

You folks are fun.

You elect politicians that hate the government and do nothing but obstruct..then complain that it is Obama's fault.


That's rich.

they drat and back laws and then VOTE WHOLESALE against the SAME bills ON:Y because Obama said he agrees with them.


their dishonesty is rampant

O'boy I thought the left was bad against George Bush. These righties are nuts.

 

[Edgetho]

I'm posting this as Public Service.

I doubt it will do any good, but here goes--

Ace of Spades HQ

Articles like this make me wonder if the bien pensant journalist-and-pundit class knows any actual poor people. I was born poor, grew up poor, and spent a good chunk of my 20's poor. Not genteel poor, either -- I mean hard, stony-bottom, empty-pocket poor. I come from poor people.

Poor people don't think about money in the same way that more well-off people do. When you're poor, money -- and the lack thereof -- informs your every moment, waking and sleeping. You know exactly, at any given moment, how much money you have, down to the penny. How much in the bank, how much in your jeans, how much in the coffee can on the counter at home. Every purchase is a choice -- if I buy this six-pack now, that means hot dogs instead of hamburger for dinner tomorrow; if I pay my cable bill, that means that instead of dinner and a movie my best girl and I get to spend a night at home watching the TV. You triage your bills -- rent comes first, then heat. Then...you decide: cable or cellphone? Who can you put off the longest? How long can you float things?

You start with the credit cards because you figure you have the right to treat yourself once in a while. If you have to sit at home instead of going out, what's wrong with having a nice flat-screen TV to watch? And then the car went south, and that blew a $500 dollar hole in your budget, so you had put your groceries and gas on the credit card that week just to make ends meet. The kids needed new clothes and shoes and supplies for school. You've got to pay the minimums on the card just to keep things going, and the balance just creeps higher and higher until you're butting up against the limit. Then you get another card, and maybe the old lady gets one too. And pretty soon...well. You wake up at night in a cold sweat because you know that bankruptcy and ruin are only a breath away. It's not just a question of if you lose your job or get sick and can't work; it's a question of losing the overtime hours you've become accustomed to, or if the wife goes back to part-time instead of full time. You realize you're barely treading water as it is; it would only take a small wave to drown you.

The thing is...when you're poor, credit isn't a way to live a life beyond your means. Your day-to-day doesn't change much. Yes, some people splurge on stupid shit like vacations and electronics and clothes. But lots of poor people just get accustomed to living just slightly beyond their means. It's stupid because it's perfectly possible to live reasonably comfortably on even a fairly low wage, but it takes one critical thing that many poor people lack -- the ability to think ahead. To plan not just a week or two ahead, but months or years ahead. Poor people don't think about the future much because honestly they feel that it doesn't hold much for them (and they're often right). The future is the end of the week; it's having enough money to make the rent and have enough left over to go to the clubs on the weekend. Credit buys little pleasures, not big ones: new shoes, a dinner out with the wife, a small gadget or some DVD's. Something to bring some pleasure into an otherwise pretty drab life.

Poor people, in short, are not stupid. They just don't see their options as being particularly varied, and they have very short time-preferences. They spend their money where they figure it will do them the most good in the short term. They don't actually use their credit differently than other people -- they use it at need, for critical out-of-budget stuff (car or home repairs, medical bills) or to purchase entertainment items (electronics, movies, etc.). The problem is that poor people can't pay down that debt. Most poor people don't go extravagantly nuts with credit cards, but the burden creeps and creeps and creeps because they can only ever pay the minimums.

I always push Dave Ramsey's course on people, and you can get some of it free through churches and civic groups. I don't agree with everything he says, but he's one of the only financial planners I know who focuses on lower-middle-class and poor folks with financial advice. Rich people don't need financial advice -- poor people do. Poor people, in general, are not victims. They are not poor because they were cheated, or because they were hampered in their careers by someone else. Mostly, they are poor because they are unskilled and made bad life choices. But even then, it is not only possible but not all that difficult to live a moderately comfortable life with a small income -- all you need is to follow some simple rules. The first of which is: avoid debt like the plague. If it's a question of buy it with cash or do without, then learn to do without.

To boil it down to gravy: poor people are poor because they behave differently than wealthier people. Change the behavior, and you change your financial situation. It really is just that simple.

 

[Wry Catcher]

I find it quite ironic that income inequality has rapidly increased during the presidency of a democrat, especially since part of that presidency included democrat control of both houses of congress.
It's almost as if they purposely advanced income inequality so that they could squeal about it like the pigs that they are.
I like my bacon thick cut.

Are you intentionally obtuse or really so ignorant of the Constitution and the rules of the H. of Rep. and the Senate?

 

[ScienceRocks]

Adopt Japans educational system that is 1#. Ours is 17th...

Set out some goals and areas of strength that we can compete in. Slave labor is a loser!!!

 

[rightwinger]

rightwinger does not realize it yet, but the government has adjusted the definition of the word 'rich' to include him.

I am willing to contribute more, I would rather see more programs that help my kids