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RedAlgae
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Thank you, George Bush
#5590492 - 05/04/06 03:32 PM (18 years, 19 days ago) |
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His tax cuts helped me make a lot of money over the past five years with my investments. GDP increased and there are more jobs to go around. Add to that low inflation and you can see why the Republicans are the saviors of humanity. If it wasn't for the Republicans, the whole world would be in the dark ages under the control of the Soviet Union and Islamofascists.
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Re: Thank you, George Bush [Re: RedAlgae]
#5590538 - 05/04/06 03:47 PM (18 years, 19 days ago) |
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You forgot to mention the debt that has been bought by China in the desperate hopes that it will keep the U.S. economy afloat for a little while longer.
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Re: Thank you, George Bush [Re: Rono]
#5590654 - 05/04/06 04:34 PM (18 years, 19 days ago) |
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God Rono, your avatar just makes me wiggle in glee.
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Re: Thank you, George Bush [Re: Syle]
#5590663 - 05/04/06 04:38 PM (18 years, 19 days ago) |
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Everyone's in debt. It creates wealth.
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DieCommie

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Re: Thank you, George Bush [Re: Luddite]
#5592078 - 05/04/06 10:48 PM (18 years, 18 days ago) |
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Tax Cuts 
People always say the tax cuts were only for the wealthy, but that is simply not true. I earn below the poverty line, and I received a significant tax cut.
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downforpot
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Re: Thank you, George Bush [Re: RedAlgae]
#5592174 - 05/04/06 11:16 PM (18 years, 18 days ago) |
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RedAlgae said: His tax cuts helped me make a lot of money over the past five years with my investments. GDP increased and there are more jobs to go around. Add to that low inflation and you can see why the Republicans are the saviors of humanity. If it wasn't for the Republicans, the whole world would be in the dark ages under the control of the Soviet Union and Islamofascists.
Jobs? What kinda jobs? All the scientists are gettin the fuck out of USA and the ones that aren't are working on making dog food taste better and make your dick harder. As for real research that helps human kind progress, well, that is outside of US.
If things don't turn around in this place, I'll finish college here and get out ASAP. Sad to a see a country going down the wrong path.
Oh yea, and the poverty rate is going up. So much for the tax cuts. We need a Clinton. A guy that gets head while getting shit done.
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Re: Thank you, George Bush [Re: RedAlgae]
#5592243 - 05/04/06 11:34 PM (18 years, 18 days ago) |
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The Republicans party has gone downhill, I'm sick and tired of them. There was a time when they actualy stood for things, when they had some principle with backbone. But now I can't find any difference between the Republicans and the Democrats.
There is no difference between them and the Democrats except for the election year rhetoric. But in practice they have become on and the same.
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monamine
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Re: Thank you, George Bush [Re: downforpot]
#5592890 - 05/05/06 04:08 AM (18 years, 18 days ago) |
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downforpot said:
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RedAlgae said: His tax cuts helped me make a lot of money over the past five years with my investments. GDP increased and there are more jobs to go around. Add to that low inflation and you can see why the Republicans are the saviors of humanity. If it wasn't for the Republicans, the whole world would be in the dark ages under the control of the Soviet Union and Islamofascists.
Jobs? What kinda jobs? All the scientists are gettin the fuck out of USA and the ones that aren't are working on making dog food taste better and make your dick harder. As for real research that helps human kind progress, well, that is outside of US.
If things don't turn around in this place, I'll finish college here and get out ASAP. Sad to a see a country going down the wrong path.
Oh yea, and the poverty rate is going up. So much for the tax cuts. We need a Clinton. A guy that gets head while getting shit done.
What he said. There a lot of SHIT jobs, but a lot less skilled labor in demand.
I dunno where you live, but there isn't shit around here. People with college degrees are flipping burgers. It was the total opposite when Clinton (who I don't even particularly care for) was in his last term.(Yeah the economy goes up and down naturally, but nowhere near how bad fuckface screwed it up.)
And like dude said, research scientists are leaving the country in droves to go to Europe and Asia. In fact my brother in law who is a computer science genius who is working on quantum computing is probably going to have to go to either India or Western Europe because he can't find anything here besides student teaching.
I dunno about inflation going down. Maybe in the last few years because Shrub fucked up the economy so bad about 4 years ago, but I don't see products getting any cheaper.
But as long as you made a little more expendable income so you can buy a new TV, I guess our country going to shit is totally worth it.
Yeah, I'm sure we'd be ruled by the Soviets and Islamists (two are kind of incomptible) if a more liberal government was in place. No exaggeration or hyperbole there at all. 
Don't you have some Ayn Rand you should be reading or something?
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Re: Thank you, George Bush [Re: monamine]
#5593021 - 05/05/06 06:19 AM (18 years, 18 days ago) |
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Yep, I can't wait for my $100 gas check... Kind of funny that the government is wanting to give people back a bit of the tax money they took from the people so that the people can give that money to the oil industry that happens to be making record profits larger than any company in the history of the US. Go Bush! Vote for oil subsidies!
Did you want to debate something, or are you here simply to spout some political parties propaganda?
Edit: Misreply - supposed to go to the first post, not the last.
Edited by Seuss (05/05/06 06:20 AM)
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Re: Thank you, George Bush [Re: Seuss]
#5593823 - 05/05/06 12:02 PM (18 years, 18 days ago) |
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To say that job are on the rise and poverty is decreasing is bullshit. You know what is happening because of the tax cuts? The middle-class is getting pushed out. It is statisticaly proven right now. The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer.
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To say that job are on the rise and poverty is decreasing is bullshit.
No it isn't. It's factual. At least it's factual in the US. I won't speak for other countries.
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You know what is happening because of the tax cuts? The middle-class is getting pushed out.
They are getting pushed into higher earnings brackets. Why is this a problem?
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It is statisticaly proven right now.
Incorrect.
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The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer.
Some rich are getting richer, yes. Some poor are getting poorer, yes. But in the US more poor are getting richer than are getting poorer.
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Re: Thank you, George Bush [Re: RedAlgae]
#5594325 - 05/05/06 01:50 PM (18 years, 18 days ago) |
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RedAlgae said: His tax cuts helped me make a lot of money over the past five years with my investments. GDP increased and there are more jobs to go around. Add to that low inflation and you can see why the Republicans are the saviors of humanity.
Funny how you chose to state this, it's such a caricature (maybe intended, but still...).
So what humanity needs (in order to be "saved"), is wealthy Americans and low US inflation. This is so tell-tale of republican mentality... Politics is all about personal interest and wealth, which by extension also means "America" (meaning: the US) first in the world.
Hey, breaking news, part of humanity lives outside the US borders.
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downforpot
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Re: Thank you, George Bush [Re: Aldous]
#5594454 - 05/05/06 02:23 PM (18 years, 18 days ago) |
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http://www.census.gov/prod/2005pubs/p60-229.pdf
"In 2004 37.0 million people were in poverty, up fro 1.1 million from 2003"
"Both the poverty rate and the number in poverty increased for people 18 to 64 years old. (11.3 percent and 20.4 million in 2004, up from 10.8 percent and 19.4 million in 2003).
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_the_United_States
"The official poverty rate in the U.S. has increased for four consecutive years, from a 26-year low of 11.3% in 2000 to 12.7% in 2004. This means that 37.0 million people were below the official poverty thresholds in 2004. This is 5.4 million more than in 2000. The poverty rate for children under 18 years old increased from 16.2% to 17.8% over that period."
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DieCommie

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Re: Thank you, George Bush [Re: downforpot]
#5594706 - 05/05/06 03:39 PM (18 years, 18 days ago) |
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The "poverty" rate in america is BS. Technically I make less than the poverty line, yet I can afford a car, afford electricity, afford to go out to eat once a month, I can afford a TV, internet, overpriced blackmarket drugs, an airconditioned apartment. Basically I can afford way more than I deserve, yet I am still "impoverished" what a joke. People around the world would give anything to live in "poverty" in america.
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Re: Thank you, George Bush [Re: DieCommie]
#5594843 - 05/05/06 04:46 PM (18 years, 18 days ago) |
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I'd rather drive my infiniti q45 and live in the suburbs. Don't even try to compare US to others. When it comes to comparing incomes, compare them to other Americans.
People around the world would also give anything to earn 100k a year... That's what my plan is... Well, more than 100k 
If you want to support a government that widens the gap between the poor and rich, go ahead.
I'd rather drive multiple cars in a short period of time, eat out more than once a month, go to a private college prep school (graduated), spoil myself with electronics, drugs, lots of vodka:) Oh yea, and go to a state university for free, paid by taxes, I think..
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Edited by downforpot (05/05/06 05:02 PM)
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Re: Thank you, George Bush [Re: RedAlgae]
#5594901 - 05/05/06 05:03 PM (18 years, 18 days ago) |
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The low inflation is because of the actions of the Republican party?
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DieCommie

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Re: Thank you, George Bush [Re: downforpot]
#5594946 - 05/05/06 05:16 PM (18 years, 18 days ago) |
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downforpot said:Don't even try to compare US to others. When it comes to comparing incomes, compare them to other Americans.
Why? By limiting the scope of comparison you can draw any conclusion you want. You could make a millionare seem poor by comparing him to a billionare. Like wise you could make a homeless person appear rich by comparing him to a homless person with less aluminium cans. The only valid scope to use is the largest one, that is all of humanity.
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Re: Thank you, George Bush [Re: RedAlgae]
#5596515 - 05/06/06 12:09 AM (18 years, 17 days ago) |
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I must note the author has not returned.
That says all you need to know about this thread.
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Re: Thank you, George Bush [Re: zorbman]
#5596660 - 05/06/06 01:03 AM (18 years, 17 days ago) |
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troll
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Re: Thank you, George Bush [Re: RedAlgae]
#5596806 - 05/06/06 02:10 AM (18 years, 17 days ago) |
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Plenty of new jobs at Wal-Mart, McDonald's and Taco Bell. Meanwhile good paying industrial jobs get shipped to Mexico, China and India. Way to go George!
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