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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHeather MC
(8,084 posts)Says as all my Republican friends
SMH
Brigid
(17,621 posts)"And corporations don't game the system?"
Heather MC
(8,084 posts)that's usually the point I take a sip of my drink and pretend I see someone I know across the room
because what's the point???
Brigid
(17,621 posts)"You can't fix stupid."
I don't get paid enough to try
bluestate10
(10,942 posts)own best interests (vote for republicans). If that changed, we, Democrats could really put in place the right priorities where no one goes hungry.
Brigid
(17,621 posts)Thank you, Playinghardball.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Many programs are band aids on an issue Americans refuse to face and that is, each other. There's always been a segment of the population that have benefited off impoverishing others.
It ain't the evil old government the rich blame causing this foolishness. The people created these programs have done so to snag dollars from the oligarchs who while at times provide us* with good things, also enrich themselves.
If Americans would stop hating on each other, it wouldn't be necessary to tap dance around these guys who have taken us down this road.
Too many of us* have thought we were too good to land up in the same boat as those who need the assistance. So they vote for the oligarchs.
Brigid
(17,621 posts)Too many Americans see themselves as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
christx30
(6,241 posts)They take those much deserved ( ) tax breaks and create jobs. They create jobs in Honduras, the Philippines, and India. Thanks to the tax breaks made affordable by cutting food stamps, a family in Mexico can have a better life.
WillyT
(72,631 posts)cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)eom
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)especially for "just a mom" and doubly for "just a single mom".
Forget being a Christian or Civilized Nation...we're not even equivalent to the Godless Socialist or Banana Republic nations that are scorned ... in the care of our young, elderly, ill and poor.
Instead, we sanctimoniously brandish our shiny, new weapons as we lecture/police the rest of the world. Because, that's the trade-off.
For shame.
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)Handouts to the poor are attempts to upset the divine order of Earthly wealth concentration.
It's the Devil's work.
magical thyme
(14,881 posts)The horror! Perish the thought....
IronLionZion
(45,380 posts)we should give them more money in spite of having record high cash balances that they are not investing or hiring more workers. What's really keeping these efficient private sector companies from hiring is the national debt and food stamps.
And I really do have Republican associates who think if you cut off food stamps, there will be more jobs. No joke.