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Fair enough.
Those who work a second job or the second-income earner in the same household might very well be working for minimum wage or the range in which their wages would go up depending on the amount of increase.
The Tea Party does not take votes away from the democrats. They can ignore them until the cows come home.
The left has been wrong about them before. If they want the democrat party to continue on, they'd be wise not to ignore anything.
I don't want either party to continue on, but the Tea Party is the best gift the conservatives have given to democrats in a generation.
Very well. I hope you enjoy the gift.
I do enjoy a good horror movie once in awhile. Listening to the Tea Party reminds me that there really is true evil on this planet.
It seems odd to me how much hate I see for the "Tea Party".I don't want either party to continue on, but the Tea Party is the best gift the conservatives have given to democrats in a generation.
I do enjoy a good horror movie once in awhile. Listening to the Tea Party reminds me that there really is true evil on this planet.
It seems odd to me how much hate I see for the "Tea Party".
Perhaps it's just because I don't pay that much attention to em, but why are they so disliked?
Its ironic to me that the welfare state keeps women home barefoot and dependent.
Except the facts do add up to my conclusions though. The war on poverty has been a failure particularly if you consider the unimaginable amount of money that has been spent over the last two generations. There is still massive, crushing poverty in virtually every major city. And the people trapped on these violent, drug infested liberal plantations have very little hope of ever escaping. Add in the squeezing of the middle class and the leftist welfare state can only be objectively viewed as a total failure.
80 percent of poor households have air conditioning. In 1970, only 36 percent of the entire U.S. population enjoyed air conditioning.
92 percent of poor households have a microwave.
Nearly three-fourths have a car or truck, and 31 percent have two or more cars or trucks.
Nearly two-thirds have cable or satellite TV.
Two-thirds have at least one DVD player, and 70 percent have a VCR.
Half have a personal computer, and one in seven have two or more computers.
More than half of poor families with children have a video game system, such as an Xbox or PlayStation.
43 percent have Internet access.
One-third have a wide-screen plasma or LCD TV.
One-fourth have a digital video recorder system, such as a TiVo.
96 percent of poor parents stated that their children were never hungry at any time during the year because they could not afford food.
83 percent of poor families reported having enough food to eat.
82 percent of poor adults reported never being hungry at any time in the prior year due to lack of money for food.
Over the course of a year, 4 percent of poor persons become temporarily homeless.
Only 9.5 percent of the poor live in mobile homes or trailers, 49.5 percent live in separate single-family houses or townhouses, and 40 percent live in apartments.
42 percent of poor households actually own their own homes.
Only 6 percent of poor households are overcrowded. More than two-thirds have more than two rooms per person.
The average poor American has more living space than the typical non-poor person in Sweden, France, or the United Kingdom.
The vast majority of the homes or apartments of the poor are in good repair.
There are things that need to be tightened up, and there are people who abuse the intent of the system, but seriously this stereotype is just plain ignorant. It's not, in any way, the life of luxury that you're spinning here.Again...why go and and work when you can have babies by an assortment of men, stay home, watch the soaps on their big screen HDs, buy junior his new Michael Jordans, and live off us stupid taxpayers while we're out there supporting her? And they're losers...not loosers, although they, in fact, are pretty damned loose with their morality.
The left has been wrong about them before. If they want the democrat party to continue on, they'd be wise not to ignore anything.
Again...why go and and work when you can have babies by an assortment of men, stay home, watch the soaps on their big screen HDs, buy junior his new Michael Jordans, and live off us stupid taxpayers while we're out there supporting her? And they're losers...not loosers, although they, in fact, are pretty damned loose with their morality.
That's not what I asked, but it does lead to another question though. What agenda does she have that is going to blow through the door?
So much wrong with that. But not the subject of this thread.
There were a couple of post IN THIS THREAD that I commented on. In THIS thread. But thanks anyway.
Raising the minimum wage has nothing to do with the middle class. The middle class doesn't work for minimum wage.
Locally, as dems, we're thinking of actually coordinating with the Tea Party around pot legalization. Just started talking about it. We're hoping there will be a proposition on the ballot in 2016 and that might be something we can team up on.
Well then, the dems in the last 6 yrs have done nothing, zip zero, noda for the middle class, in fact under Obama's liberal policies the middle class wages are lower then when he took office. You think that may have been part of the cause that the Dems got killed this past election.
I don't want either party to continue on, but the Tea Party is the best gift the conservatives have given to democrats in a generation.
"Voting" was rejected in the midterms. People didn't want to, so they largely didn't.
"Voting" was rejected in the midterms. People didn't want to, so they largely didn't.
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