Breaking Point?
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Anonymous
+1 Love that quote. |
Anonymous
Total load of crap Fewer than half of Americans even own stock, and most of those own stock indirectly in retirement plans. The rest of America doesn't even know what the stock market is. They won't have good jobs or growing wages because as billionaire business owner Mike Bloomberg wrote in the NY Times, the rich corporations will not pass their tax savings onto their workers. The corporations are already sitting on trillions of dollars in cash, and a few more trillions won't make any difference -- they won't spend it on higher wages or more jobs. The course has already changed. Look at Alabama and Virginia. The tide is turning. Congress will be awash in Democrats in 2018, and then Trump and his enablers will be vanquished and order restored to our government and our country. |
Anonymous
Sure you are, if you're RICH. But if you're middle class, you are getting a TAX HIKE. Watch for it folks! Taxes will increase, especially in high tax states. This is a giveaway to the rich, pure and simple, paid for on the backs of the poor and middle class. The lying, scheming Republicans with their narcissistic orange bully at the helm have succeeded in ripping off the vast majority of the American public. The Republicans will lose their jobs, and the next wave of Democrats will reverse this atrocity, restoring taxes to the rich and corporations, and making them permanent, so the next sleazy Republican-led administration can't reverse them. This tax grab is sickening, completely horrifying, and will harm so many hardworking Americans, many of whom voted for the Orange Piece of Shit. The oligarchs are laughing all the way to their bulging offshore bank accounts in the Caymans. |
Anonymous
Oh. God. Not another Russbot post!! Vlad, are you posting on DCUM yourself?? Wow. Inciting violence. Pretending to be lefty. Woo hoo. You gotta do better than this. |
Anonymous
I'm not rich. Who sad we still have the condo? It was sold in the 1990s. I was just showing the price appreciation of a modestly priced house bought years ago in support of the OP. |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
I'm old enough to remember the old "welfare queens driving cadillacs" argument against paying for poor people's health care back in the 1970s. Your example smells like it was pulled from the same sewer. Poor people--I don't know if you know this--don't have much money. They live in shitty neighborhoods, attend shitty schools, are badly educated, often speak poorly because of their terrible education, so can't get jobs that pay more than minimum wage (which is not a living wage), and thus they remain poor. The exceptional poor person who gets lucky with a combination of brains and a chance to attend a good school may find a way out of that cycle of poverty, but most poor people are not so lucky. If these poor people could find jobs where they earned a living wage, could live in neighborhoods where crime wasn't rampant, could attend good schools and get a good education (which Betsy DeVos is trying to make even more difficult by limiting funding for public schools), they'd get better jobs, pay higher taxes and you wouldn't be bitching about the fact that they can't afford to pay income taxes on their piddling wages. Your stupid example shows how ignorant you are about the lives of people who are poor. Spend a few years working in an inner city neighborhood, and you'll start to see these people as regular working human beings who are struggling against a system where the deck is stacked against them. Sure, the best and brightest may escape poverty, but the rest of the average joes are not going to make it without help from people who have more resources. They are not freeloaders (unlike those spoiled rich kids who inherit millions -- what do you call them?), they are mostly people with few opportunities and little education who are mired in a system they can't navigate their way out of. Why are you so callous towards people you've never met, many of whom look different from you? Why don't you try going out and meeting these people, spend some time talking with them, figure out how nice and kind and generous and welcoming many of them are, how hardworking and peaceful and really great people they are -- before you condemn them solely because they are poor, with little education, who need help from more affluent and educated people? If you're a Russbot, OK, I get it. If you're just an asshole, I get that too. But it would be helpful to you as well as the world if you'd try to regain some of your humanity. |
Anonymous
What kind of bullshit is this? Did the Russian trolls build this website?? |
Anonymous
God, you're stupid and ignorant. |
Anonymous
You're welcome to pay more in taxes anytime. Send your check to the Treasury ASAP. Put your money where your mouth is. |
Anonymous
Intergenerational inheritance has to stop. What has Ivanka done to deserve to inherit billions? |
Anonymous
This is today's Russian talking point. Distract with some stupid example that is pointless and worthless. The big story TODAY is that the rich 1% and wealthy corporations are STEALING middle American taxpayers' money to enrich themselves even further because of this tax steal they PAID for by buying (or threatening) Republicans in Congress. (I'm betting the Russians have all sorts of dirt on every Republican who accepted their dirty Russian money.) The 1% owns 34% of the wealth in this country. If that's not oligarchy, well, we're getting there. Count another win for Vlad. He's the richest man in the world, and he wants to become the most powerful man in the universe by taking over the US government. He's got his Orange Puppet and his GOP puppet congress -- can't wait for his next move -- dismantling Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security?? Trumpkins are going to love that!! But they'll be dead from their loss of health care benefits, so who care about them? says VladTrump. So. Much. Winning. |
Anonymous
That quote reminds me of something I was thinking the other day... Rs love the whole "pull yourself up by your boot straps" mentality. There is no clearer example of that than the Clintons. You can say whatever you want about their policies or their behavior (which I have criticized in the past), but those two people came from humble beginnings and used their intelligence and hard work to get where they are at. For those who claim HRC rode on her husband's coat tails, I don't know how true that is because if you read about her past, and how she graduated magnum cum laude, and how her college classmates thought she would be the first female president, I think it shows how tough and intelligent she is. I'm thinking she was an asset for Bill more than anything. He had the charisma, but I think she had the smarts. Trump, OTH, is the anti-thesis of the R battle cry. BTW, I used to be a R, and voted for both Bushes and highly criticized the Clintons during that whole Lewanski scandal. I remember when people used to call her Billary, but I never understood why they did that and was actually kind of offended by it. As a female, I think men just didn't like that a female could be so ballsy and intelligent. Up until then, FLOTUS were pretty quiet and unassuming. Sorry, totally off topic, I know. |
Anonymous
So Steve Mnuchin can have another sheet mask made out of foreskins and Ivanka can blow another 60K on a clamshell? Lol, no. We'll wait till ethics and morals, a la the Obamas, return to the White House. |
Anonymous
Let's be truthful here (and only a Democrat can do that these days), Obama inherited a recession from Bush II and cleaned it up so the economy could grow. Trump inherited a growing economy that Obama put into place, and then Trump claimed that HE was responsible for all that growth that Obama's policies allowed to happen. Claims that Trumpy is responsible for the stock market and GDP growth isypical GOP deceit and lying. Taking credit for the good things they didn't do and lying about the crappy things they did do. The lying conservatives posting trash here need to take Econ 101 to get a basic grasp of economics before posting. All they post is ignorant bullshit. |