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HockeyDad Offline
#1 Posted: Wed, Sep 14 2011, 6:40 AM EST
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More Americans were living in poverty in 2010 than at any time since at least the 1950s, with the overall poverty rate climbing to 15.1 -- a 6 percent jump in just one year -- according to Census figures released Tuesday.

In unrelated news, the "Re-elect Obama" campaign is in full swing!
dpnewell Offline
#2 Posted: Wed, Sep 14 2011, 7:02 AM EST
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It's all Bush's fault.
teedubbya Offline
#3 Posted: Wed, Sep 14 2011, 7:10 AM EST
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dpnewell wrote:
It's all Bush's fault.


No but only a partisan hack would not recognize that he does share a pretty good chunk of the blame.

That said, there is an easy fix. Cut the poverty level in half. Overnight prosperity! Easy peasy.
DrafterX Offline
#4 Posted: Wed, Sep 14 2011, 7:55 AM EST
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I heard Obama was gonna give everyone a million dollars for stimulation and stuff.... Mellow
DrMaddVibe Offline
#5 Posted: Wed, Sep 14 2011, 8:14 AM EST
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teedubbya wrote:
Cut the poverty level in half. Overnight prosperity! Easy peasy.




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Sp-VFBbjpE
tailgater Offline
#6 Posted: Wed, Sep 14 2011, 9:34 AM EST
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The poverty level is the highest it's been in decades.

In other news: Americans are obese, and new cell phone surcharges will make it difficult for those on welfare to keep their third smartphone while traveling abroad.
dpnewell Offline
#7 Posted: Wed, Sep 14 2011, 10:59 AM EST
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teedubbya wrote:
No but only a partisan hack would not recognize that he does share a pretty good chunk of the blame.

That said, there is an easy fix. Cut the poverty level in half. Overnight prosperity! Easy peasy.


Since I've been and voted Libertarian since '96, does that make me a partisan hack? Oh, that’s right, it makes me a “stoner” partisan hack. Dancing And of course Freddie Mac and Fanny Mae, as well as the "Making Housing Affordable Act", staunchly backed by the same Dems that blame Bush for all our problems, even when warned over and over again about the coming crash, and refusing to act to prevent it, have no blame in this at all.

Overnight prosperity? If Obummer had kept his finger up his a*s where it belonged, instead of trying to micro manage the economy, we'd be out of this by now, and stronger then ever.
DrMaddVibe Offline
#8 Posted: Wed, Sep 14 2011, 11:06 AM EST
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dpnewell wrote:
Obummer had kept his finger up his a*s where it belonged, instead of trying to micro manage the economy, we'd be out of this by now, and stronger then ever.



Doubt it...

Jim Cramer, CNBC host: "Now let's talk about the fact that you said the economy is weak. You put out a jobs plan. The New York Times today basically gives its obituary. 'Tax plan for jobs bill.' Familiar ring. Meaning the GOP will not back this. Is this dead on arrival?"

Tim Geithner, U.S. Secretary of Treasury: "Absolutely not. I think that there's no reason now for the Congress of the United States not to act to help strengthen growth in the near term. It's the conservative, prudent, responsible thing to do. You can think of it as protection against Europe."

Cramer: "Okay."

Geithner: "You can think of it as insurance against weaker growth going forward. And you got to think about the alternatives. If Congress or Washington is incapable of acting, then policy will be damaging to growth because what you'll have is a deeper, steeper contraction in fiscal support than is prudent for an economy at this early stage of the crisis given the shocks we face. You know, life is about choices. Life is about alternatives."

Mr. Geithner said we have "some ways to go" to heal the country from the crisis that we are in.

"You have to keep at it. You say that we are going to continue to do whatever we think will help get more people back to work, make the economy strong in the short term. Until we get definitively through this. And our basic strategy is to make sure we are healing the damage caused by this crisis and we have some ways to go as you know despite the improvement of the financial sector. And we want to make sure at the same time we're making this a better place to invest, make exports stronger and strengthen our long-term fundamentals," Geithner said.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/09/14/geithner_were_in_an_early_stage_of_a_crisis.html



This coming from the idiot that couldn't figure out how to use Turbo Tax correctly~ Frying pan
Brewha Offline
#9 Posted: Wed, Sep 14 2011, 12:29 PM EST
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I check with my local Tea Party rep – Americans living in poverty deserve it;

“ . . . .they don’t work hard enough. They could pull themselves up, but they would rather take money out of the pockets of decent hard working Christian Americans - because they hate the success that we have and the clean and righteous life style we live. The poor and unemployed and are simply un-American scum and hanging is too good for them . . . . “

- Greater Dallas Tea Party Grand Wizard, Hugh Jass.
DrMaddVibe Offline
#10 Posted: Wed, Sep 14 2011, 12:30 PM EST
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Brewha wrote:
I check with my local Tea Party rep – Americans living in poverty deserve it;

“ . . . .they don’t work hard enough. They could pull themselves up, but they would rather take money out of the pockets of decent hard working Christian Americans - because they hate the success that we have and the clean and righteous life style we live. The poor and unemployed and are simply un-American scum and hanging is too good for them . . . . “

- Greater Dallas Tea Party Grand Wizard, Hugh Jass.




Brewha...on the pulse of the Tea Party.

You could learn a lot.whip
dubleuhb Offline
#11 Posted: Wed, Sep 14 2011, 1:17 PM EST
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Brewha wrote:
I check with my local Tea Party rep – Americans living in poverty deserve it;

“ . . . .they don’t work hard enough. They could pull themselves up, but they would rather take money out of the pockets of decent hard working Christian Americans - because they hate the success that we have and the clean and righteous life style we live. The poor and unemployed and are simply un-American scum and hanging is too good for them . . . . “

- Greater Dallas Tea Party Grand Wizard, Hugh Jass.

Boo hoo!
tailgater Offline
#12 Posted: Wed, Sep 14 2011, 1:23 PM EST
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Brewha wrote:
I check with my local Tea Party rep – Americans living in poverty deserve it;

“ . . . .they don’t work hard enough. They could pull themselves up, but they would rather take money out of the pockets of decent hard working Christian Americans - because they hate the success that we have and the clean and righteous life style we live. The poor and unemployed and are simply un-American scum and hanging is too good for them . . . . “

- Greater Dallas Tea Party Grand Wizard, Hugh Jass.


I agree 100%.
But who is this Grand Wizard who has stolen the First Lady's nickname?
ZRX1200 Offline
#13 Posted: Wed, Sep 14 2011, 1:24 PM EST
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I thought your name was Hugh Jorgan Brewha......
wheelrite Offline
#14 Posted: Wed, Sep 14 2011, 2:38 PM EST
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Boo Hoo..

We have the richest poor people in the world.They all have cell phones,TVs cars etc...

Don't believe me ?
ask an Ethiopian
DrafterX Offline
#15 Posted: Wed, Sep 14 2011, 2:44 PM EST
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wheelrite wrote:
Boo Hoo..

We have the richest poor people in the world.They all have cell phones,TVs cars etc...

Don't believe me ?
ask an Ethiopian



Think
don't have one handy... can you still mail-order those..?? Huh
Brewha Offline
#16 Posted: Wed, Sep 14 2011, 3:52 PM EST
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ZRX1200 wrote:
I thought your name was Hugh Jorgan Brewha......


“I am known by many names”
DrafterX Offline
#17 Posted: Wed, Sep 14 2011, 4:08 PM EST
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I have an enormous schwanzstucker....... Mellow
pgje51 Offline
#18 Posted: Wed, Sep 14 2011, 7:38 PM EST
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talking news head just said 1 in 6 americans living below poverty level. how do they define 'american' these days? how do they collect and measure this data?

I guess I was with 1K+ folks at Sunday night concert in Reno who aren't in this demographic.
donutboy2000 Offline
#19 Posted: Wed, Sep 14 2011, 11:41 PM EST
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.

INCOME



REDISTRIBUTION



NOW !!!
Brewha Offline
#20 Posted: Thu, Sep 15 2011, 12:29 PM EST
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I asked my friend, a Zen philosopher about the poverty;

“Nothing is what I want”
- Judah Mandood
HockeyDad Offline
#21 Posted: Thu, Sep 15 2011, 2:41 PM EST
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Poor Democrats.
DrafterX Offline
#22 Posted: Thu, Sep 15 2011, 2:54 PM EST
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ya.... poor Democrats... Sad
Brewha Offline
#23 Posted: Thu, Sep 15 2011, 3:23 PM EST
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Poor liberal Democrats . . . . .
Pour me . . . . .another
Beer
DrMaddVibe Offline
#24 Posted: Thu, Sep 15 2011, 3:32 PM EST
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Brewha wrote:
Poor liberal Democrats . . . . .
Pour me . . . . .another
Beer



One cup o' Biden comin' up!horse
DadZilla3 Offline
#25 Posted: Thu, Sep 15 2011, 5:07 PM EST
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HockeyDad wrote:
More Americans were living in poverty in 2010 than at any time since at least the 1950s, with the overall poverty rate climbing to 15.1 -- a 6 percent jump in just one year -- according to Census figures released Tuesday.


Only because we rich folk haven't fully embraced the righteous Socialist agenda. We're too greedy to properly share.
dpnewell Offline
#26 Posted: Thu, Sep 15 2011, 5:41 PM EST
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Silly people. Everything is going to plan. Once the Dems get the poverty level up to 51%, they'll be in power for life.
engletl Offline
#27 Posted: Thu, Sep 15 2011, 6:23 PM EST
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DrafterX wrote:
I heard Obama was gonna give everyone a million dollars for stimulation and stuff.... Mellow


Sad thing is...if they would have given every tax paying U.S. Citizen $1million we might be better off and out of recession right now. Not sure when our economy would end up having tanked if that was done
DrafterX Offline
#28 Posted: Fri, Sep 16 2011, 8:18 AM EST
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engletl wrote:
Sad thing is...if they would have given every tax paying U.S. Citizen $1million we might be better off and out of recession right now. Not sure when our economy would end up having tanked if that was done




I'd like a million dollars handed to me .. no doubt... but I'd prolly keep on working and saving... I mean I'd pay stuff off and buy some toys but I would invest until it's time to retire... (prolly a little earlier)..
But how many people out there would just walk away from thier jobs...?? I'd bet a very high perentage would live off that million bucks till it was gone and then hold their hands out for more..... Mellow
Brewha Offline
#29 Posted: Fri, Sep 16 2011, 9:50 AM EST
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I say we take the useless 1/3 who won’t work and put them on a space ship. If we simply got rid of everyone who is poor, it would all be good – although I not sure who would drive the cabs or clean the toilets . . . . . .

My zealot buddy tells me that the Bible says that “the poor will always be among up”. This really screws up my space ship plan.

I guess next time you’re angry or discussed at some sloth that won’t work, remind yourself; That’s the way the God of Abraham wanted it.

Pray
HockeyDad Offline
#30 Posted: Fri, Sep 16 2011, 10:02 AM EST
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Brewha wrote:
I say we take the useless 1/3 who won’t work and put them on a space ship. If we simply got rid of everyone who is poor, it would all be good – although I not sure who would drive the cabs or clean the toilets . . . . . .



NASA doesn't have enough budget, unless you're proposing to privatize this.

As long as we create arbitrary definitions of "poor", "middle class", and "rich", getting rid of the current "poor" would just result in a bunch of "middle class" being redefined as "poor".

Getting rid of the lazy might be a better goal. There are plenty of hardworking "poor".
DrafterX Offline
#31 Posted: Fri, Sep 16 2011, 10:04 AM EST
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Think
I think God said something about sloths going to hell.... I may be wrong.. I dunno..
DrMaddVibe Offline
#32 Posted: Fri, Sep 16 2011, 10:05 AM EST
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Brewha wrote:
I say we take the useless 1/3 who won’t work and put them on a space ship. If we simply got rid of everyone who is poor, it would all be good – although I not sure who would drive the cabs or clean the toilets . . . . . .

My zealot buddy tells me that the Bible says that “the poor will always be among up”. This really screws up my space ship plan.

I guess next time you’re angry or discussed at some sloth that won’t work, remind yourself; That’s the way the God of Abraham wanted it.

Pray



Ask your "buddy" to show you where it says that.
DrafterX Offline
#33 Posted: Fri, Sep 16 2011, 10:06 AM EST
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DrMaddVibe wrote:
Ask your "buddy" to show you where it says that.




somewhere towards the back.... Mellow
HockeyDad Offline
#34 Posted: Fri, Sep 16 2011, 10:08 AM EST
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DrafterX wrote:
somewhere towards the back.... Mellow



Could be in the appendix. I'm not sure why that is even there.
DrafterX Offline
#35 Posted: Fri, Sep 16 2011, 10:16 AM EST
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Proverbs 13:4
The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.

2 Thessalonians 3:10
For even when we were with you, we would give you this command: If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat.

Proverbs 15:19
The way of a sluggard is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright is a level highway.

Proverbs 12:24
The hand of the diligent will rule, while the slothful will be put to forced labor.

Think Think Think Think
DrMaddVibe Offline
#36 Posted: Fri, Sep 16 2011, 10:17 AM EST
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=b_mwjaEI_hM
ZRX1200 Offline
#37 Posted: Fri, Sep 16 2011, 10:55 AM EST
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Drafter laying a thump down!
DrafterX Offline
#38 Posted: Fri, Sep 16 2011, 10:58 AM EST
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Laugh

I do feel sorry for the sloths... damn lazy humans givng them a bad name and stuff... Mad

I mean I guess if you were a sloth born in a tree it would be ok to be a sloth.... Think
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#39 Posted: Fri, Sep 16 2011, 11:45 AM EST
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Chewbacca says.........

LET THEM EAT ROCK!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20t4gBf_1d4
Brewha Offline
#40 Posted: Fri, Sep 16 2011, 12:14 PM EST
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Poor Sloths . . . .
Brewha Offline
#41 Posted: Fri, Sep 16 2011, 12:56 PM EST
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A Co-worker has offered this:

"When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that individual is crazy."
DrafterX Offline
#42 Posted: Fri, Sep 16 2011, 12:59 PM EST
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I don't see the relevance to the, 'God loves sloths' comment.... Think
HockeyDad Offline
#43 Posted: Fri, Sep 16 2011, 1:20 PM EST
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Brewha needs a co-worker upgrade!
Brewha Offline
#44 Posted: Fri, Sep 16 2011, 1:24 PM EST
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But does the Sloth love God?

If a sloth falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, is it still lazy?
HockeyDad Offline
#45 Posted: Fri, Sep 16 2011, 1:26 PM EST
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If a sloth falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, is it still registered as a Democrat?!
DrafterX Offline
#46 Posted: Fri, Sep 16 2011, 1:26 PM EST
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are you refering to the tree sloth or the welfare sloth..?? Huh
Brewha Offline
#47 Posted: Fri, Sep 16 2011, 1:28 PM EST
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HockeyDad wrote:
Brewha needs a co-worker upgrade!


How can I argue with a man who can say “I surrender” in every language?
DrafterX Offline
#48 Posted: Fri, Sep 16 2011, 1:50 PM EST
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Think Think
maybe if God hadn't used so much gold paving the streets of heaven it may not be so hard to find down here... Mellow
Brewha Offline
#49 Posted: Fri, Sep 16 2011, 1:55 PM EST
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DrafterX wrote:
Think Think
maybe if God hadn't used so much gold paving the streets of heaven it may not be so hard to find down here... Mellow


I understand that for all his glory, God is actually not very good with money – that is why he is always asking for some more . . . . . .
HockeyDad Offline
#50 Posted: Fri, Sep 16 2011, 2:37 PM EST
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DrafterX wrote:
Think Think
maybe if God hadn't used so much gold paving the streets of heaven it may not be so hard to find down here... Mellow



That is why Obama had to use milk and honey. Have you seen the price of gold? The only way he would buy gold is if it was sold to him by a green energy company.
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