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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]@jeff, that's the whole thing.  This poster acts as if Obama was elected on the premise of "I am going to start a war in Afghanistan."  OBL was found in Pakistan, not Iraq - nowhere near Iraq.  The Bush-Cheney regime took their eye off OBL, even before he slipped away in Tora Bora.

Moving on to the PP's quip about how jobs, not the EITC, pull folks out of poverty.  Please read here and learn how the EITC boosts incomes for [i]working[/i] folks.  http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/09/why-the-gops-plan-for-the-47-percent-risks-putting-millions-into-poverty.php?ref=fpa[/quote]

Obama was not elected on the premise that he was going to start a war in Afghanistan, but rather that he was going to end it.  Here we are 3.5 years later and no better off and 1,000 more dead. Add that to the billions for the war since he came into office.   His strategy was to surge troops and double down.  It failed.  He failed.  I think the violence and inability to train an Afghan army that can self police is clear.  When we leave on the preset and announced timeline, the Taliban will rise again and take control  He could have ended the war and closed Gitmo as promised right after he was elected with the same result.  He did not.  He will go down in history as the president who lost this war.

As to the welfare of giving a tax refund to those who do not pay taxes, this is just another example of subsidies that continue the addiction of government dependence.  Teach a man to fish, do not give him a fish.  Once again, you miss the big point.  The unemployment rate among blacks and hispanics is in the mid teens.   They need jobs.   When you have jobs you have a much better chance of getting out of poverty.   While the possibility that ending the EITC may cause those receiving government subsidies to have to find additional income, the fact is the policies and failed economic policies of Obama and the failure to create jobs have plunged millions back into poverty.  That has happened and continues to happen.  We are seeing a record for food stamp receipts because Obama has miserably failed the poor in creating opportunity.  But of course he has certainly shored up his democratic base among the poor.[/quote]

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