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Anonymous wrote:It's has nothing to do with "deserving". It's time the able bodied pick themselves up.

Can't subsidize them forever, even though you would like that to happen.

Intergenerational welfare has to stop.

Then why are you bitching about shoes?

That was ME talking about poor people wasting money on $200 shoes....not the PP you're replying to. Why do liberals always assume they are talking to ONE conservative? Can't you tell the difference in writing style and content? Jeez.

You mean there is more than one f-ing idiot dotard?

You dotards all want to punish people for their sins - being poor, getting pregnant, etc.

You call me an idiot? How many times do I have to tell you that expecting a poor person to go without a $200 pair of sneakers is not a punishment. "You are going to have to wear a $100 pair of shoes as punishment for being poor!" These liberal attitudes that poor people are entitled to throw out (taxpayer) unnecessarily or otherwise they're being punished is the source of a lot of problems.

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.

You are unhinged and wrong on just about every point you attempted to make.

Unhinged is debatable, but "wrong" is provable. Have you any evidence, or are you just spewing garbage?

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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.)

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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.

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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.

Maybe your soul could be bought for cheap. I sincerely doubt all of these people are happy for the crumbs their bosses are throwing at them. Mark 8:36.

Why is some liberal throwing out New Testament quotes all the time? It's getting annoying.

Annoying? Yes. But still 100000x less annoying than Rs trying to fake morals. Suck it, a-hole Rs.

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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)

The US is going to split apart like the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia unless we find another Lincoln.

I know it feels this way, but that's what Vladimir Putin is trying to foment. He wants the US to break into a civil war. That would benefit him.

But, let's face it, the differences among red and blue states are mostly superficial. Trump is an extremely divisive leader who is exploiting the ignorance of the less educated and racist Americans to take sides against their own best interests believing, incorrectly, Trump's claims that "liberals" want to take their rights and money away. Stupid people fall for rhetoric, and that's what Trump has fed these people, winking all the while at the rich oligarchs who are getting richer under the Trump regime.

(BTW, Do you know that Mitch McConnell is the richest man in the US Congress? He's among the 1% who will make a killing off this tax steal!!)

It would be nice right about now to find another Lincoln, someone who can bring Americans together. I don't know who that person is, but sometimes a crisis like this Trumpean regime, brings out the very best in the very greatest people, and we may see a leader arise who can lead us out of this morass.

The divide in the US is between rich and poor. Abortion, immigration, etc. are just smokescreens. Follow the money, and it leads to the rich, who are getting richer under Trump while the poor get poorer.

Fascists always tell their followers that they are working in their followers' best interests, while at the same time working completely opposite their followers' interests. That's the Trump/GOP, Fascists all.

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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.

Maybe your soul could be bought for cheap. I sincerely doubt all of these people are happy for the crumbs their bosses are throwing at them. Mark 8:36.

Why is some liberal throwing out New Testament quotes all the time? It's getting annoying.

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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.

Maybe your soul could be bought for cheap. I sincerely doubt all of these people are happy for the crumbs their bosses are throwing at them. Mark 8:36.

Why is some liberal throwing out New Testament quotes all the time? It's getting annoying.

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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.

This will be voted on (in effect) a year from now. Half the people will be thrilled with the swelling blalance in their retirement accounts, and the other half don't pay taxes anyway - and still won't. Add in that 80% of taxpayers will have seen their taxes drop! and we will have a country of happy campers.

What a total load of crap!!! Lying liars!!!

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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)

Good thing I'm getting that Ak47 for Christmas.

MAGA! More guns! More blood!

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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.

Maybe your soul could be bought for cheap. I sincerely doubt all of these people are happy for the crumbs their bosses are throwing at them. Mark 8:36.

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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 [...] failed attempt [...]be ashamed.

No one's buying your sad straw man. You believed in welfare queens, too.

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.

Hasn't Trump lived his whole life off of other people's money?

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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.

This will be voted on (in effect) a year from now. Half the people will be thrilled with the swelling blalance in their retirement accounts, and the other half don't pay taxes anyway - and still won't. Add in that 80% of taxpayers will have seen their taxes drop! and we will have a country of happy campers.

What a total load of crap!!! Lying liars!!!

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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.

This will be voted on (in effect) a year from now. Half the people will be thrilled with the swelling blalance in their retirement accounts, and the other half don't pay taxes anyway - and still won't. Add in that 80% of taxpayers will have seen their taxes drop! and we will have a country of happy campers.

There's going to be a recession because of this tax bill and the relaxation of banking laws the Trump administration is pushing.

But the GOP is going to lie and lie and lie about the "benefits" of this tax bill. They will claim (as Trump has over and over again, and we all know how much he lies) that the middle class will benefit from the tax scam.

The stupid middle class Americans who believe Trump will find out in 2019 (which is when they will pay their 2018 taxes), that they've been scammed and screwed royally. Even if they get a few bucks off their tax bill, it won't pay for the enormous increases in their health insurance that are certain to follow when the health care mandate disappears. But they are ignorant and the Trumpite oligarchs and the complicit GOP is counting on that ignorance to carry them to reelection in 2018 on their wave of lies.

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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

PP here. Thanks for posting the link.