(October 11, 2011 at 5:25 pm)searchingforanswers Wrote: So why are the conservatives saying they want to punish the rich to help the poor?

Because the conservartives thinks the rich fully deserves everything and the poor nothing, therefore in their eyes anything would deny the rich anything is a injustice to the rich. And if what is denied the rich is actually given to the poor that would be a double injustice in the eyes of the conservatives.

The plan for corporate America is to reduce wages to that of a Chinese worker: $3/day. There's still much work to be done before getting to that level. And as Herman Cain said: if you're poor, you've got only yourself to blame.

/// sarcasm off.

http://biggovernment.com/jpollak/2011/10...-by-obama/
My teacher just posted this link. MAJOR conservative. btw thanks for the responses guys.

We definitely need the government to stop corporate welfare, but I think what also needs to be done is to reduce the level of regulation, at least on small business owners. There isn't enough incentive for people to start their own businesses anymore, because there is so much red tape you have to step through, not to mention all the costs in order to set up the documents in the first place. If the government really wants to encourage more jobs, it needs to let small business (i.e. the middle class) expand.

(October 11, 2011 at 5:02 pm)searchingforanswers Wrote: Okay my conserative friends say though and I qoute "these are people whining for the rich to take care of them etc etc." Where are they coming from?

I can't speak for anyone else, but I don't want anyone to take care of me. I just want them to stop fucking me in the ass.

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(October 11, 2011 at 5:40 pm)searchingforanswers Wrote: http://biggovernment.com/jpollak/2011/10...-by-obama/
My teacher just posted this link. MAJOR conservative. btw thanks for the responses guys.

The guy that wrote that piece is a major league tool.

And as Herman Cain said: if you're poor, you've got only yourself to blame.

Gotta love the Christian spirit of this baptist minister. Double douche.

(October 11, 2011 at 4:45 pm)searchingforanswers Wrote: So my facebook friends have recently started really debating about occupy wall street. Honestly, I don't know much about it, so can someone explain it to me? What exactly are people protesting?

Why don't you let them tell you themselves?

p.s. 80% of the folks on there have had their lives ruined via the "World's Greatest Healthcare System™."

(October 11, 2011 at 6:48 pm)Jaysyn Wrote:

(October 11, 2011 at 4:45 pm)searchingforanswers Wrote: So my facebook friends have recently started really debating about occupy wall street. Honestly, I don't know much about it, so can someone explain it to me? What exactly are people protesting?

Why don't you let them tell you themselves?

p.s. 80% of the folks on there have had their lives ruined via the "World's Greatest Healthcare System™."

Jaysyn THANK YOU for this link. I'm surprised I didn't find this earlier. Reading some of these really clarifies a lot for me.

The French Revolution did not start out knowing where it was going either.
People knew they were hungry and that the aristocracy did not give a flying fuck about them.

We are in roughly the same position with the Upper 1% as the Parisian mob was with the Aristocrats.

(October 11, 2011 at 5:00 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: In a word, oligarchy.

The middle class is dying in America. The top 1% are getting wealthier, not paying their share of the tax burden while the rest of the countries slides deeper into debt. There are no jobs but Washington seems obsessed with other issues. Both parties are bought out by special interests and the left in America feels especially disenfranchised having to choose between the far right wing Republicans and the center right wing Democrats.

As always, you do such a wonderful job giving maximum information with minimum wording.