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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Freeper on December 09, 2010, 08:24:50 PM
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KansDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Dec-09-10 04:16 PM
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When you stop and think about it, the wealthy really didn’t uphold their part of the bargain.
Reagan wanted “trickle down†economics. He said slashing tax rates will mean the rich will have more money to invest in the country. He slashed tax rates for the richest Americans.
Then Bush said giving the rich tax cuts will give them more money to invest in the country. The GOP passed his tax cuts for the richest Americans.
The richest Americans invested their newfound wealth in jobs…overseas jobs, and our unemployment rate is now at 9.3%
The richest Americans invested their newfound wealth in the economy…the economies of Brazil, Russia, India, and China to name a few.
Why should we continue to give them tax breaks? They didn’t do what was expected of them.
The wealthy didn’t uphold their part of the bargain. What made us think they would?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9736676
I trust the evil rich more than I trust the govt.
Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Dec-09-10 04:17 PM
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1. Yep, and their day of reckoning is a lot closer than they realize. eom
Yep socialism will make them poor along with the rest of us.
Liberalynn (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Dec-09-10 05:45 PM
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12. I still have my "Reaganhood: Rob From the Poor to Give to the Rich"
button.
Just the other day a rich person mugged me.
cottonseed (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Dec-09-10 04:23 PM
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3. That's actually a sensible way of putting it to more conservative folks.
I like it.
Yep it converted me to liberalism when I read it. :whatever:
madokie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Dec-09-10 04:25 PM
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4. The rich never play fair
I suspect thats why some are where they are to begin with.
Funny that's how I view democrats in power.
TriplD (42 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Dec-09-10 08:03 PM
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14. They didn't create the jobs they were suposed to either
That's what I find so maddening about the narrative - if extending the tax cuts is supposed to create jobs, why are we at 10% unemployment 9 years into the policy?
They didn't hold up their end of the bargain. Not only shouldn't they continue to be rewarded, they should pay it all back.
Pay it all back? I wasn't aware the govt cut them a check. Silly me I thought we just didn't take as much money from them.
applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Dec-09-10 09:00 PM
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15. I'm on pins and needles waiting to see what the rich will sacrifice for their country in this time
of war and economic uncertanty....... I'm waiting...
And what have you sacrificed?
You sit there with open hand waiting for Obama to fill it from his stash. How about taking responsibility for your own life?
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Dec-09-10 04:17 PM
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1. Yep, and their day of reckoning is a lot closer than they realize. eom
Yeah? What are you going to do, hack out another one of your green-tinted, unimaginative Photoshop jobs?
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TriplD (42 posts) Thu Dec-09-10 08:03 PM
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14. They didn't create the jobs they were suposed to either That's what I find so maddening about the narrative - if extending the tax cuts is supposed to create jobs, why are we at 10% unemployment 9 years into the policy?
They didn't hold up their end of the bargain. Not only shouldn't they continue to be rewarded, they should pay it all back.
I don't know. Maybe you ask that Bwaney Fwank why there are no jobs and why the economy is so bad? How's that sound?
You DUmmies are so quick to pass judgement without even knowing the facts or what's at stake. It wasn't the Bush tax cuts that got us here.
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The richest Americans invested their newfound wealth in jobs…overseas jobs
So did ordinary, everyday, middle class Americans, Dems included, when they invest in publicly traded companies, or in mutual funds. All these companies are going to invest to maximize profit, and that includes union-avoidance and preferential tax treatment. That's just financial analysis, it's not Scrooge McDuck counting his gold coins.
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Okay now, what was the unemployment rate during the majority of the Bush administration and when he left office? What was Reagan's when he left? And how much has it been since 0bama took office? It's HIS policies in place now. HIS stimulus, HIS crony capitalism, HIS using tax monies to pay off his union buddies, HIS takeover of private industry, HIS increasing the public sector while shrinking the private sector WHO PAY THEIR SALARIES, etc. What have unions done? They've artificially driven up prices, managed to hold businesses and citizens hostage while gaining unsustainable wages and retirement packages for their workers, all to keep them under their little socialist thumbs. Did they hold up their end of the bargain with their workers? They were bargained right out of their jobs. What happens when the private sector shrinks so much they can no longer pay for such a massive government?
Sometimes you have to do more than bitch and hold your hand out. Get the chip off your shoulder and help yourself.
Cindie
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USA Inc. was doing very well. GDP up, incomers up, unemployment down, then along came the donks in January 2007.
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KansDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Dec-09-10 04:16 PM
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When you stop and think about it, the wealthy really didn’t uphold their part of the bargain.
Well damn, pull out the contract they signed on that and take their asses to court!
:rotf:
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Well damn, pull out the contract they signed on that and take their asses to court!
:rotf:
...it's stacked in their favor.....liberal judges and all, you know.