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ProfessionalLeftist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-26-11 12:08 AM
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Boehner plan: "If enacted, it could well produce the greatest increase in poverty and hardship ... "
Analysis of the Boehner budget plan by the nonpartisan Center on Budget & Policy Priorites. " If enacted, it could well produce the greatest increase in poverty and hardship produced by any law in modern U.S. history."

http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=3548
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cantbeserious Donating Member (270 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-26-11 12:11 AM
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1. In All Honesty That Is What Republicans Want - A Return To Slavery Economic Or Otherwise
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FreakinDJ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-26-11 12:19 AM
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2. Gee - Who would da thunk it
Edited on Tue Jul-26-11 12:21 AM by FreakinDJ
House Speaker John Boehner’s new budget proposal would require deep cuts in the years immediately ahead in Social Security and Medicare benefits for current retirees, the repeal of health reform’s coverage expansions, or wholesale evisceration of basic assistance programs for vulnerable Americans.

My only question is why isn't our National Media reporting this
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ProfessionalLeftist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-26-11 12:29 AM
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4. Who owns 'em? Big corp. The "owners"
They're the ones getting all our money. Mum's the word....
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AsahinaKimi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-26-11 12:23 AM
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3. "If enacted, it could well produce the greatest increase in poverty and hardship ... "
Edited on Tue Jul-26-11 12:32 AM by AsahinaKimi
Why would a Republican really care about the Poor and their Hardships? Seriously... Uso!
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krispos42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-26-11 12:45 AM
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5. Which is exactly the point of the Republican Economic Plan



Note the difference in the lines when the New Deal was implemented (purple line), vs. when Reaganomics was (green line). Average of the bottom 99% is in blue, and scaled on the left vertical axis. Average of the top 1% is in red, and scaled on the right vertical axis.
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Bill USA Donating Member (628 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-26-11 04:31 PM
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6. please consider making your opinion known to ABC News, link to Deficit Reduction war, comment page
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