The rich are using your government to steal your money

[BlueEyedSon]

....your kids' money too.



And just wait til they eliminate 1) all tax on dividends 2) the mortgage interest deduction....

[ClayZ]

1. That graphic should be on the front page

of every newspaper!:kick:

[Jon8503]

3. Puts it right out there for you; Thanks for the graph, Kick N/T

[goddess40]

18. I agree

I hadn't seen this one for a while - how depressing

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. Every Democrat should use this

because maybe it will make some folks realize what is happening.

[MadHound]

7. Trouble is that the Demcrats have become corporate whores too

And thus even if you present such evidence to them, they will ignore it all in favor of helping out their real constituents, Corporate America.

This situation is going to continue to decline until we make publicly financed election campaigns the law of the land. Until then Corporate America will continue to buy up all of the government, and the rest of us will continue to get screwed.

[BlueEyedSon]

16. I guess the issue is who will kill the middle class MORE SLOWLY

:(

[MadHound]

21. No friend, the issue is to get Corporate America out of our Government

And like I said earlier, the only way to do that is through making publicly financed election campaigns the law of the land.

Anything else is just insuring our continued demise. It should be obvious that these aren't your daddy's Democrats, especially with the DLC calling the shots and controlling the pursestrings. And while they might throw us a bone, and talk the good talk, in the end all they are going to do is to do whatever it takes to please their corporate masters.

[BlueEyedSon]

23. Too bad neither party wants to do that.....nt

[FreedomAngel82]

30. Yep

Use it in an ad on tv or in the paper or something.

[kentuck]

4. Looking at the graph, it was obviously Clinton's fault....

Look how high he had taken that thing - it had to fall.

[anarch]

5. no shit. This is indeed the case n/t

[Clintmax]

6. My gods!

What a graphic! In your face! I gotta save this and send it to all my repug relatives!

[lonestarnot]

8. We should him impeach him for this alone!

[Clintmax]

11. I agree!

Recommended also! EVERYONE should see this!

[SammyWinstonJack]

9. Hey FReepers! Care to comment?

:rofl: God, Abortion, Guns and Gays! GAGG ME! :puke:

[Coexist]

10. what a telling graph!

[tuvor]

12. In a few years, there won't be a piece of paper big enough

to render the rest of the graph.

Not at this rate.

[bluedawg12]

13. it doesn't matter we have a cultural war to wage!

money doesn't matter -vote on morality!

I am so sick of the stupid people who continue to support the destroyers of my coutnry.

The deficit is a long term ruin. Look at everything else that does NOT work today, from FEMA- to national security-it goes on and on.

Here's an extreme example:
http://www.dixienet.org/

>Second, we cannot emphasize too often or too strongly that the League is a Southern nationalist organization and not a heritage defense group. Our goal is Southern independence, complete, full, and total. This is our chief principle of action. All efforts must be tested against this question: Does it aid our quest for independence? If not, then don’t do it. It’s as simple as that. If your agenda does not have Southern independence at its core, then you’re in the wrong organization<

[BlueEyedSon]

14. I say let them go. The wealth, brains and cultural values are in the North

:)

[bluedawg12]

19. Agree that the true believers in the radicalright are a lost cause

and the vote getting should come from our base, young people, undecides, and those who don't vote.

I say get out the vote for '06 and '08.

[Greyhound]

22. Let's help them to reach their stated goal! Imagine how nice it would be

here if we could get rid of all those a-holes at once!
Sorry if you live in one of those places, but it would be for the good of the country. We would have a power-house of an economy and there would be plenty of good paying jobs for our red state refugees.
C'mon let's get behind this! Support Jesusland! :woohoo: :bounce: :woohoo:

[Dora]

15. Pictures speak louder than words. n/t

[Clintmax]

17. Oh, how I wish we still had the Big Dog in the WH!

Those were great years!

[ourbluenation]

20. do you have a link for that?

I would love to pass that around...

[Angry Girl]

24. Right-click on the image and save to your hard drive

Email the graphic at will from there or stick it on your website....

Pending BlueEyedSon's permission, of course! :-)
Great graphic, BES!

[BlueEyedSon]

25. No prob, that's how I got it. THEN, email it to all your friends!

[ourbluenation]

26. Won't work for my needs - I need to post it to a message board with link.

If I post link to this thread it will be dismissedbecasue it's a DU thread. Thank you though - it's great!

[BlueEyedSon]

27. Copy it, up load it, etc

[kansasblue]

28. I showed that graph to a Republican friend and he said.........

that it didn't mean much because it was in dollars that weren't adjusted for inflation. He said the the % of GDP of debt is less than it was under President Johnson.

Can some on find one that is adjusted. This is a nice graph but the freeper will destroy it.

[yorgatron]

29. kick

:kick:

[rucky]

31. the peaks and valleys are so wide, there's no way around it...

the freeper isn't being intellectually honest and he/she knows it. ask freeper to provide proof to his outrageous claim.

and if you ask a freeper about cost of living these days, he'll say that inflation hasn't changed much since Clinton. heh.

[BlueEyedSon]

32. Those are 2 different criticisms, BTW (inflation, % of GDP)

Just as long as your friend realizes this.

Also, a surplus is still a surplus.... correcting by a factor (i.e. inflation, GDP growth/decline) won't change the sign (+, -)!

[BlueEyedSon]

33. To elaborate:

So where is all the money flowing out to? War for corporate interests (oil), no bid contracts (HAL, KBR), stock market manipulation (Fed?), pork projects (bridges to nowhere).

And who will be left holding the bag on that debt? The TAXPAYERS. With each passing year, fewer and fewer rich folks (and large, PROFITABLE, corporations) actually pay any taxes. That leaves you & me and our kids.

This is the reality of the USA in 2005.