Breaking Point?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm not going to be happy until American poor people are bone-thin and wearing rags! Right now they're fat, wearing $200 shoes and living it up with air conditioning!!!! Plus free internet!!!

Food stamps should only be used for gruel!! And I should be allowed to work my nanny like a slave! Have a job but can't afford the basics? Get another job you lazy bum!!!

Why do libs always take things to a ridiculous extreme in a failed attempt to make a point? There is a big difference between questioning why people on welfare buy $200 sneakers (more than I've ever paid!) and saying they have to live in rags and eat gruel. All we are saying is that people who are living off other people's money need to stop buying crap that even upper-middle class people wouldn't.

Also, anybody who is spending $200 on shoes and then claims he is too poor to pay even a few dollars in taxes should be ashamed.

Stop this Russbot talking point about some stupid shoes!!

You read that somewhere (Breitbard? Fox?). It may be true in a few cases, but the vast majority of poor folks use their food stamps to buy FOOD.

And what difference does it make if 1 in a million people on food stamps makes poor choices? Does that mean you must take food stamps away from everyone?

Your logic is, well, not logical.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:With the House having passed this bill, the breaking point is here. The ones that are going to be destroyed by this just don't feel it yet. I am so angry right now, I can barely see.

+ 13 billion

I'll only be angrier if TreasonGOPTrump succeeds in getting Russian sanctions lifted and The Orange Grifter gets his $13 billion payout from Vladimir Putin.

Just an FYI.......

200,000 employees at AT&T are happy right now. $1000 bonus as a result of this tax cut.

LINK?

Not the PP, but here's the link. Lots of grateful T employees today!
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/20/tax-reform-reaction-att-is-giving-bonuses-to-200000-employees.html

Yeah. Talk is cheap. They may be grateful when they get their cash, if they get it. But the cost of their healthcare will skyrocket, so they'll have to spend more than $1K on health insurance premiums.

Didn't your mother tell you not to believe everything you read or see on the news?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Post your taxes. Potomac at one time had houses selling for $50,000. My dad was military. I’m not sure why you need to get all snooty. A lot of people have their net built in the increases in their house value, especially lower income folks - that’s their major investment.

Oh, Patton Oswalt posted a quote just for you: "Nobody talks more of free enterprise and competition and of the best man winning than the man who inherited his father's store or farm." -- C. Wright Mills, 1951

That's basically the entire White House and the GOP donor class: DJT, Jr, Ivanka, Jared, Mnunchin, The Koch Brothers, etc.

I've said it many times: everything happening in politics right now is a war being perpetrated at the hands of inherited wealth. They've managed to convince a large segment of America that a bunch of people with large inheritances are somehow fighting "the Establishment." It's the cruelest trick ever played on Americans.

+1 Love that quote.

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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.

The Republicans love to throw around the Horatio Alger rags-to-riches myth. It's a myth because it would only be true if everyone were endowed with the same attributes (brains, skills, abilities) as Horatio Alger. But we all know some people have many more God-given talents and skills than others.

The Clintons are an example of the people who are genetically lucky. They are both very smart and, while neither was born rich, they had the benefit of good educations and families who supported their ambitions. But they are exceptional. They are the type of people who will excel no matter what.

Most people are not so lucky. The ones with little brains and skills but who have the luck to be born into a rich family (like the Trump children) will appear to "succeed" because the have the cushion of wealth to support them for their entire lives. The ones with few talents and skills but who are born poor have no support and thus no way out of poverty. They will not make it without help.

The Republicans want to leave the untalented and unlucky folk to die in the gutter.

The Democrats want to give a helping hand to these people, regardless of how "deserving" they are. (The rich Trump kids aren't "deserving" either, but they are lucky to be born rich so don't need a helping hand.)


Tell us more about folk dying in the gutter. I love the hyperbole and blissful stupidity of your post.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm not going to be happy until American poor people are bone-thin and wearing rags! Right now they're fat, wearing $200 shoes and living it up with air conditioning!!!! Plus free internet!!!

Food stamps should only be used for gruel!! And I should be allowed to work my nanny like a slave! Have a job but can't afford the basics? Get another job you lazy bum!!!

Why do libs always take things to a ridiculous extreme in a failed attempt to make a point? There is a big difference between questioning why people on welfare buy $200 sneakers (more than I've ever paid!) and saying they have to live in rags and eat gruel. All we are saying is that people who are living off other people's money need to stop buying crap that even upper-middle class people wouldn't.

Also, anybody who is spending $200 on shoes and then claims he is too poor to pay even a few dollars in taxes should be ashamed.

Stop this Russbot talking point about some stupid shoes!!

You read that somewhere (Breitbard? Fox?). It may be true in a few cases, but the vast majority of poor folks use their food stamps to buy FOOD.

And what difference does it make if 1 in a million people on food stamps makes poor choices? Does that mean you must take food stamps away from everyone?

Your logic is, well, not logical.

Food is then resold to buy the $200 sneakers. Why you so dumb?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:With the House having passed this bill, the breaking point is here. The ones that are going to be destroyed by this just don't feel it yet. I am so angry right now, I can barely see.

+ 13 billion

I'll only be angrier if TreasonGOPTrump succeeds in getting Russian sanctions lifted and The Orange Grifter gets his $13 billion payout from Vladimir Putin.

Just an FYI.......

200,000 employees at AT&T are happy right now. $1000 bonus as a result of this tax cut.

1k? that is just crumbs...dumb suckers.

Trump is flinging hot pennies to the Uriah Heaps of the world and you're cheering him on.

[Anonymous]

Well, they'll have to use that 1k to pay for real property taxes or health care premiums over the next year so, yeah, that's bullshit.

[Anonymous]

I see plenty of white dudes with $200 sneakers bopping around in shiny jeeps, etc., that their daddies bought for them. What is the racist's obsession with black people and their shoes? So weird.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Post your taxes. Potomac at one time had houses selling for $50,000. My dad was military. I’m not sure why you need to get all snooty. A lot of people have their net built in the increases in their house value, especially lower income folks - that’s their major investment.

Oh, Patton Oswalt posted a quote just for you: "Nobody talks more of free enterprise and competition and of the best man winning than the man who inherited his father's store or farm." -- C. Wright Mills, 1951

That's basically the entire White House and the GOP donor class: DJT, Jr, Ivanka, Jared, Mnunchin, The Koch Brothers, etc.

I've said it many times: everything happening in politics right now is a war being perpetrated at the hands of inherited wealth. They've managed to convince a large segment of America that a bunch of people with large inheritances are somehow fighting "the Establishment." It's the cruelest trick ever played on Americans.

It's Fascism, pure and simple. And it's going to get worse with this tax steal for the rich.

How is it for the rich. Every bracket sees a cut. The standard deduction is doubled, that benefits the lowest tiers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I see plenty of white dudes with $200 sneakers bopping around in shiny jeeps, etc., that their daddies bought for them. What is the racist's obsession with black people and their shoes? So weird.

Nobody ever mentioned race. Why are you turning this into a race thing? Just so you can scream racist, as usual?

And....dimwit....if someone is bopping around in expensive shoes their daddies bought them, fine! We are talking about people on the government dole spending that kind of money.

Liberals are going insane trying to defend this. Why would you give as an example the fact that some kid gets his shoes paid for him by his father as justification for welfare dependents wasting taxpayer money on luxury items? Are you saying that in Liberal LaLa Land, a poor person dependent on taxpayers is as ENTITLED to expensive stuff as self-supporting people?

O....M.....G!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Post your taxes. Potomac at one time had houses selling for $50,000. My dad was military. I’m not sure why you need to get all snooty. A lot of people have their net built in the increases in their house value, especially lower income folks - that’s their major investment.

Oh, Patton Oswalt posted a quote just for you: "Nobody talks more of free enterprise and competition and of the best man winning than the man who inherited his father's store or farm." -- C. Wright Mills, 1951

That's basically the entire White House and the GOP donor class: DJT, Jr, Ivanka, Jared, Mnunchin, The Koch Brothers, etc.

I've said it many times: everything happening in politics right now is a war being perpetrated at the hands of inherited wealth. They've managed to convince a large segment of America that a bunch of people with large inheritances are somehow fighting "the Establishment." It's the cruelest trick ever played on Americans.

It's Fascism, pure and simple. And it's going to get worse with this tax steal for the rich.

How is it for the rich. Every bracket sees a cut. The standard deduction is doubled, that benefits the lowest tiers.

It also removes some of the lowest income from the tax rolls altogether.

[Anonymous]

Bannon here on this thread spewing his alcohol-fueled, addle-brained trumpenomics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I see plenty of white dudes with $200 sneakers bopping around in shiny jeeps, etc., that their daddies bought for them. What is the racist's obsession with black people and their shoes? So weird.

Nobody ever mentioned race. Why are you turning this into a race thing? Just so you can scream racist, as usual?

And....dimwit....if someone is bopping around in expensive shoes their daddies bought them, fine! We are talking about people on the government dole spending that kind of money.

Liberals are going insane trying to defend this. Why would you give as an example the fact that some kid gets his shoes paid for him by his father as justification for welfare dependents wasting taxpayer money on luxury items? Are you saying that in Liberal LaLa Land, a poor person dependent on taxpayers is as ENTITLED to expensive stuff as self-supporting people?

O....M.....G!

We all hear your dog whistle when you start talking about "poor people wearing expensive sneakers"--gmafb

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I see plenty of white dudes with $200 sneakers bopping around in shiny jeeps, etc., that their daddies bought for them. What is the racist's obsession with black people and their shoes? So weird.

Nobody ever mentioned race. Why are you turning this into a race thing? Just so you can scream racist, as usual?

And....dimwit....if someone is bopping around in expensive shoes their daddies bought them, fine! We are talking about people on the government dole spending that kind of money.

Liberals are going insane trying to defend this. Why would you give as an example the fact that some kid gets his shoes paid for him by his father as justification for welfare dependents wasting taxpayer money on luxury items? Are you saying that in Liberal LaLa Land, a poor person dependent on taxpayers is as ENTITLED to expensive stuff as self-supporting people?

O....M.....G!

We all hear your dog whistle when you start talking about "poor people wearing expensive sneakers"--gmafb

You hear what you want to hear - and your false screams of racist is not detracting from the point....that people living off other people's money should not buy ridiculously overpriced and unnecessary items.

[Anonymous]

The GOP is passing bills that the majority of voters don’t support. Who do they represent exactly?!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I fully expect violence against the economic and/or political elite within the next two years. Don't be surprised we start hearing about the murders of corporate execs, finance types, and lobbyist swamp creatures. It's only a matter of time - it hasn't happened in the US since the 1960s but we are quickly headed that way.

Read about the Lead Years in Italy in the 1970s...very scary times ahead:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Years_of_Lead_(Italy)

Libs and democrats have already demonstrated many times that they recquite capable of political violence, so I'd say we're already past the stage you predict happening.

What in the hell spdo you call the democrat guy shooting up the republican baseball team, if not political violence?