USA !!! USA !!! USA !!! USA !!!

[SmileyRose]

Land of the free
Home of the brave
Where there is so much money to be had by all that people have to CHOOSE to be poor.

That's right. If you are born into deep poverty, or slightly above, just work your ass off 16-20 hours a day and you'll be Warren Buffet someday. Anyone can do it.

No don't listen to THE FEDERAL RESERVE BANKwhen they say only a small percentage of people born into poverty manage to even barely get over the poverty line over a course of their entire lives. Or that people born into the lower edges of middle class are quickly slipping into poverty.

Instead listen to the Republican party. You would be so much better off with no legal minimum wage or government safety net. You just quit blowing your $2 an hour wages on luxuries like $1 cheeseburgers for your only meal of the day and entrust it to the rich white guys in the stock market.


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OK in all seriousness, WHY IN THE BLUE HELL IS THE SOCIAL SAFETY NET EVEN OPEN FOR DISCUSSION ????

[Amonester]

1. Because cheneyourself/bu$h gave it all to helliburton and xe?

And they want more, more, more, more, more, more?

[woo me with science]

2. Because we now have government

of Wall Street, by Wall Street, for Wall Street.

No more representatives. We have leaders now.

[aquart]

3. Because pissed off Dems and independents didn't vote in 2010.

We are being destroyed by short-sighted, self-righteous, sanctimonious assholes.

[bvar22]

5. Oh yes. THATS the reason.

It couldn't possibly have anything to do with a Failure of Leadership,
or the inability to articulate a clear Pro-Working Class message.
It is not the job of Leadership to motivate the troops!


YEP! "Its the voter's fault!!!"
That way, we don't have to "change" a thing!

"I've seen it happen time after time. When the Democratic candidate allows himself to be put on the defensive and starts apologizing for the New Deal and the fair Deal, and says he really doesn't believe in them, he is sure to lose. The people don't want a phony Democrat. If it's a choice between a genuine Republican, and a Republican in Democratic clothing, the people will choose the genuine article, every time; that is, they will take a Republican before they will a phony Democrat, and I don't want any phony Democratic candidates in this campaign."
---Democratic President Harry Truman

QED 2010

[The Big Vetolski]

7. Oh, stop making sense. You'll upset the...you know. nt

[Agony]

8. Thumbs UP!

:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[SmileyRose]

9. This did not start in 2010

Our wages, benefits and safety net have been eroding for 30 years.

[FiveGoodMen]

4. Why? Because the rich want slaves.

Yes, really.

What good is all that money if you can't boss people around and get them to do your dirty work?

While there are civil rights and economic security, people will refuse to play the role of slave.

So...you take away their civil rights (PATRIOT ACT) and their economic security (SS and health care) and they are at your mercy.

Seriously, that's what all this is about.

[Amonester]

6. And if they can't get them here, they'll get them in India.

Ooops. They already do.

[krispos42]

10. And that article is 5 years old... it's got to be twice as bad now

K&R, rightclick-save

[reformist2]

11. Of course, don't tell everybody ol' Warren was born on 3rd base...

[Obamanaut]

12. Even so, there are people from other places still coming to the USA

to live.

Many legally. Others, not so much.

But move here they do.