No wonder...

[Minimalist]

the corporate republicunts maintain their alliance with the jesus freaks at all costs.

http://apnews.excite.com/article/2013091...N7U02.html

WASHINGTON (AP) - The gulf between the richest 1 percent and the rest of America is the widest it's been since the Roaring '20s.

The very wealthiest Americans earned more than 19 percent of the country's household income last year - their biggest share since 1928, the year before the stock market crash. And the top 10 percent captured a record 48.2 percent of total earnings last year.

U.S. income inequality has been growing for almost three decades.

[Tonus]

Keeps them from murdering the rich? Who do you think is keeping them rich???

[A Theist]

the corporate republicunts maintain their alliance with the jesus freaks at all costs.

http://apnews.excite.com/article/2013091...N7U02.html

WASHINGTON (AP) - The gulf between the richest 1 percent and the rest of America is the widest it's been since the Roaring '20s.

The very wealthiest Americans earned more than 19 percent of the country's household income last year - their biggest share since 1928, the year before the stock market crash. And the top 10 percent captured a record 48.2 percent of total earnings last year.

U.S. income inequality has been growing for almost three decades.

...and I thought you admired Napoleon. He was far better than the Reign of Terror that preceded him. Or do you support shedding a bit of blood as a consideration when it comes to guillotining people who actually work and make money for a living. Screw your Socialism!

[Silver]

What I fail to understand is how low income redneck bible thumping theistitards can support the republicunts who are veritably against helping them.

As soon as a republicunt mentions Jaysus, the theistitard voter loses all common sense.

[DeistPaladin]

...and I thought you admired Napoleon. He was far better than the Reign of Terror that preceded him. Or do you support shedding a bit of blood as a consideration when it comes to guillotining people who actually work and make money for a living. Screw your Socialism!

I don't see where Min advocated violence or bloodshed, only that religion is useful for keeping the poor and oppressed in line and docile.

The French Revolution, however it may have turned ugly against the aristocrats, was about democracy, not socialism. And the aristocrats weren't capitalists but a privileged class born to land and title, who lived lavishly and exempt from taxes while others toiled and supported the system. There was no democratic means for the masses to peacefully redress their grievances against this system and so bloody revolution was the only option.

Neither was Napoleon in charge of a democratic France, where any of his citizens had a peaceful means of redressing their grievances. He crowned himself emperor.

Of course, I shouldn't have to lecture a so-called "Tea Partier" about the value of a responsive, democratic government that offers a peaceful means of redressing grievances at the ballot box and the violence that can result when a government closes these means off.

[A Theist]

What I fail to understand is how low income redneck bible thumping theistitards can support the republicunts who are veritably against helping them.

As soon as a republicunt mentions Jaysus, the theistitard voter loses all common sense.

I don't see where the dopeycrats are doing any better with all their give away programs and no way to fund them except for taxing the shit out of people who actually do work to support the lazy asses who don't...."gimme my Obama phone!"...and talk about redneck. You need to take a good look in the mirror. hee haw!

[Silver]

I don't see where the dopeycrats are doing any better with all their give away programs and no way to fund them except for taxing the shit out of people who actually do work to support the lazy asses who don't...."

Universal health care works in other countries where the people are more than happy to pay slightly higher taxes in order to ensure that those who cannot afford medical care actually get the help they need. There is no reason that similar programs cannot work in 'Murica, supposedly the greatest country in the world. If republicunts ceased behaving like infants by attempting to prevent real progress in this country, 'Murica might one day become America again.

[A Theist]

...and I thought you admired Napoleon. He was far better than the Reign of Terror that preceded him. Or do you support shedding a bit of blood as a consideration when it comes to guillotining people who actually work and make money for a living. Screw your Socialism!

I don't see where Min advocated violence or bloodshed, only that religion is useful for keeping the poor and oppressed in line and docile.

The French Revolution, however it may have turned ugly against the aristocrats, was about democracy, not socialism. And the aristocrats weren't capitalists but a privileged class born to land and title, who lived lavishly and exempt from taxes while others toiled and supported the system. There was no democratic means for the masses to peacefully redress their grievances against this system and so bloody revolution was the only option.

Neither was Napoleon in charge of a democratic France, where any of his citizens had a peaceful means of redressing their grievances. He crowned himself emperor.

Of course, I shouldn't have to lecture a so-called "Tea Partier" about the value of a responsive, democratic government that offers a peaceful means of redressing grievances at the ballot box and the violence that can result when a government closes these means off.

If that period in France was about democracy then it failed, and it failed miserably. The French Revolution wasn't called the Reign of Terror for nothing. It not only turned ugly for the aristocrats at the beginning but it also turned ugly for everyone in France with the threat of beheading by the guillotine to keep the people oppressed, in line, and docile. Robespierre and his cohorts were thugs who eventually met the blade themselves when the people of France had enough of him. While Napoleon did crown himself emperor, Robespierre created his own religion and proclaimed himself divine...which caused some of his former colleagues to turn against him. The people of France were much happier under Napoleon than they were with Robespierre.

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I don't see where the dopeycrats are doing any better with all their give away programs and no way to fund them except for taxing the shit out of people who actually do work to support the lazy asses who don't...."

Universal health care works in other countries where the people are more than happy to pay slightly higher taxes in order to ensure that those who cannot afford medical care actually get the help they need. There is no reason that similar programs cannot work in 'Murica, supposedly the greatest country in the world. If republicunts ceased behaving like infants by attempting to prevent real progress in this country, 'Murica might one day become America again.

It's not just the Republicans who are unhappy with Obamacare. The major unions who supported Obama with their big union money and with their votes have now turned against Obamacare. If people in other countries like giving up large portions of their wages in taxes to support lazyasses who don't work that's all well and good for them...and with the big unions now coming out against Obamacare that has to tell you it's going to be one big mess to implement.

[DeistPaladin]

Universal health care works in other countries where the people are more than happy to pay slightly higher taxes in order to ensure that those who cannot afford medical care actually get the help they need. There is no reason that similar programs cannot work in 'Murica, supposedly the greatest country in the world. If republicunts ceased behaving like infants by attempting to prevent real progress in this country, 'Murica might one day become America again.

As a business owner, I would come out money ahead if I could pay more in taxes in exchange for covering all my employees with Medicare instead of paying the Health Insurance companies who gouge the hell out of me for their crappy health insurance policies.

Before Obamacare, every November, I'll call them "Health Insurance Bastards Inc." would bend me over and rape me, raising my rates as much as they pleased. "Up 30% this year... no wait, make that 50% just for good measure". They could pretty much do that to all small businesses with impunity. There were only two health insurance companies in the whole state, so they had little competition over a product you can't do without. Nice work if you can get it.

After Obamacare, I began getting refund checks from Health Insurance Bastards Inc. There are limits to how much they can gouge me. I went through last November without a rate increase. No wonder they're lobbying to get it repealed. They liked being able to rape me every year.

Obamacare requires them to have only 20% administrative overhead costs. Medicare runs on 2%. Go ahead and tax me in return for me saying goodbye to Health Insurance Bastards Inc. I'll be money ahead and it's also a better program than the crap plans I have to buy because it's the best I can afford.

Medicare for all would not only be more humane, it would be better and cheaper.

[Captain Colostomy]

The term 'lazy' is lazy...and hazy.

Rich folks whose only labors involve cashing dividend checks...lazy.
Poor folks who work multiple jobs, but still fall under the poverty line...not lazy.

Yet...since those blue collar workers end up with a welfare nickel from the gub mint, only they get charged with laziness?

It's bullshit. I realize there are those individuals around who outright scam the system, but damned if the rich don't scam it now. The robber baron days are still here when it comes to pay scale discrepancies. Besides, a hundred welfare scammers 'stealing' a hundred bucks each, or a solitary CEO pocketing millions in incentives...hmm.

I side strongly with the majority of downtrodden masses here. I'm not looking for true equality mandated by law, either, just a nod towards parity.

'Lazy' just comes off as a dismissive by the selfish.