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In reply to the discussion: America's poor are 'envy of the world,' says richest Congressman [View all]Diclotican
(5,095 posts)27. n2doc
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No thanks - I might be seen as a poor man - but I would far more be a poor man in Norway - rather than being a poor man in the US - if I had been - I would not be around - because of not being treated for ilnesses..... Mr Issa is so full about himself - that he might believe what he state.... But for the most part he is just full of it....
But then again - rich tend to belive in their own wacume, and he might be one of them, who do belive it...
Stupid man - and he is elected to the US Congress.. It is a reason US going to hell in a handbasket...
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Is that bar low enough now? Comparing ourselves to life in Third World countries?
Gidney N Cloyd
May 2015
#3
And once the working poor are stripped of all the benefits that the Repugs resent
maddiemom
May 2015
#53
I don't know why many Dems. and the left abstain from using the term fascism,
appalachiablue
May 2015
#95
I guess he's never talked to poor people who live in countries with universal health care.
tanyev
May 2015
#15
India has universal health care. Which country would you prefer to be poor in?
Recursion
May 2015
#86
Considering he's a national elected official, he's either lying, or stupid.
closeupready
May 2015
#16
+5 The set up for more cuts to the safey net and no whining about more job losses cuz
appalachiablue
May 2015
#96
Come on down Issa. Come down here with nothing of your own. Let us set up a situation like we
jwirr
May 2015
#21
Issa thinks America's poor should be knocked down a peg so that we're more in line with
Ed Suspicious
May 2015
#29
Such lack of empathy is vomit inducing to say the least, what a clueless, out of touch bastard. nt
mother earth
May 2015
#32
Ahh, the "they have running water, refrigerators, and toilets. How poor could they be?" argument
PersonNumber503602
May 2015
#36