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Then they sell most of the oil to other countries for higher profit instead of us poor folks here at home... they could assist in giving relief at the pump but they don’t for GREED !

Coos Bay Tom Loc: coos bay oregon

I agree

buffalo Loc: Texas

Is that why the poor are all lumped into one category? They are poor because they are lazy and worthless freeloaders, a drain on a system that favors the wealthy? Why is it that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid (systems that the elderly and working poor paid into) must always be on the chopping block when it's tax cuts for the wealthy and big corporations (that were already awash in BILLIONS in cash) and the $100s of BILLIONS in excessive, wasteful, fraudulent military spending NEVER get cut that cause federal revenues to drop? Could it be that that military graft keeps military industrial corporations and their CEOs, boards, and major stockholders wealthy and the revolving door open for those in politics with the power rewarded with lucrative super high paying jobs? The same for big Pharma! Is that it?

As to your risk takers...My grandfather had a saying, "With just a little luck s**t will do for brains."

eagleye13 Loc: Fl

Both parties work for the PTB. The Banking Cabal/Federal Reserve administrators.
Who here thinks the Democratic Party has done anything to correct the "The rich get richer and the poor get poorer" system?
Other than throwing crumbs for v**es.
War is a racket. The MIC/MSC is a self serving problem.
Who is going to trim their sails?

bylm1-Bernie

You're quite right, Eagle. Since 1960, there have been about 29 sessions of Congress. The Democrats have controlled them by almost 2 to 1, which leads one to believe that the Dems must like the tax rules as they are or they would have done something to change them. They certainly had the power to do it. I frankly think there is very little difference between the two parties.

buffalo Loc: Texas

That is a given. Many times I have stated that the dems and repubs are just the left and right arms of the one corporate party buying and controlling the politicians of either arm. The false idea that corporations are persons with the accompanying rights is ludicrous.

Corporate influence is why health CARE and prescription drugs are ridiculously high. Corporate influence is why the US has continual, illegal, unConstitutional, immoral warmongering requiring the sucking up of 100s of BILLIONS of taxpayer dollars that could be better spent. Corporate influence (the for profit, private prison complex) is why US prisons are full of non-violent offenders. We let loose i******s that have committed murder and sentence a person for simple marijuana possession to 5 years. The system is fv(k3d up.

son of witless

" Is that why the poor are all lumped into one category? They are poor because they are lazy and worthless freeloaders, a drain on a system that favors the wealthy? "

That is not true. We who are so Right make distinctions between those who cannot take care of themselves and must be helped, and those who could work, but will not. Come on, are you honestly telling me that you personally do not know any slugs. A slug is someone milking the system for all he can. I've known those people my whole life.

" Why is it that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid (systems that the elderly and working poor paid into) must always be on the chopping block when it's tax cuts for the wealthy and big corporations (that were already awash in BILLIONS in cash) "

Do you know nothing about those systems ? No really ? All of those programs are unsustainable because i***ts think they are bottomless pits, which they are. The more you put into them, the more the politicians use them as piggy banks to promise freebies to their deadbeat v**ers. Whenever anyone who is sane has tried to put those programs onto a sustainable path, SKUMBAG LiBERALS have demonized them and their efforts.

Do you know nothing about economic theory ? Allowing those programs to suck the life out of the private economy is the way to ruin. OHHHH Tax cuts for the rich, OH NO Mr. Bill. Man I get so terribly s**k of hearing that freaking Marxist KRAP.

When Bush proposed allowing young people to have 401k like personal accounts, the Skumbag liars in the Jack Ass Party scared the geezers into thinking that bad old Wall Street was gonna lose all of their money. And you know what ? It worked. It was too damn easy to scare Grandma and Grandpa into thinking that Bush wanted them to eat Alpo for breakfast.

The private sector creates the wealth that allows Social Security, Medicare, Medicade, and all of the rest of GUVMENT stuff to function. I have paid into those programs for 45 plus years and I want them to last for me and my kids. They will not last if Liberals have their way. Too many people who paid in little or nothing are sucking them dry. Then people like me will get screwed. How about the Liberals give me all of my money back that I and my employers paid in ? Plus 6% compounded interest for the use of my money. SS and Medicare. After that I will not ask for another dime.

That won't happen. " $100s of BILLIONS in excessive, wasteful, fraudulent military spending NEVER get cut that cause federal revenues to drop? "

Hey man, I am always in favor of getting rid of waste, BUT never tell me that the military does not get cut. Under Bill Clinton and Barry the Obama they allowed parts of our military to rot so that they could spend that peace dividend on buying v**es from deadbeats !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

" As to your risk takers...My grandfather had a saying, "With just a little luck s**t will do for brains." "

So your Grandfather would think this guy who bet the farm in Alaska and won, has Obama for brains ?

Fit2BTied Loc: Texas

Your grandfather was a genius...or...uh...extremely lucky?!🤣🤣🤣

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All 22Million+ i******s need to be removed FLAT OUT !

Sicilianthing

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JACKPOT this is another reason why I see the Article V removing them all from offices and returning them to their states for prosecution ...

Why I no longer see Trump draining the swamp (them) or arresting anyone.

Sicilianthing

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AIPAC controls all of them... Get Rid of AIPAC !

son of witless

Not my Grandfather.

buffalo Loc: Texas

No need to pat yourself on the back. Lots of repulsives and those against helping the poor and needy lump all the poor and needy into the category of lazy and freeloading off the system, especially one's who have been thrown into that category through no fault of their own.

YES I DO KNOW ABOUT THOSE SYSTEMS. I believe it was slick willie that signed major welfare reform into law with the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996. Remember that? Workfare costs 5 times as much as welfare did- and it does not produce tax payers. Paying more for childcare alone so parents can work min wage jobs is conservative insanity.

Yeah, bushie and a whole host of other conservatards have been trying to figure out a way to privatize Social Security for years. Hedge Fund managers' wet dream.How did privatizing Chile's pension system work out? Organizing basic social services like health, education and retirement primarily around market mechanisms—that is, access based on income and provision based on profit—only compounds inequalities.

The only way to fix Social Security's shortfall is to remove the cap and tax ALL incomes for FICA, even dividend and interest income and then means test for eligibility and make it off limits to greedy thieving politicians. Privatization is NOT the answer.

Yeah, you have fallen into that left/right, consevatard/libturd, demwit,repulsive false dichotomy blaming the ills and problems of government on the other side. In your case the "liberals". LOL

Yep, condemning a demwit President obammy for lavishing money on social programs at the expense of national defense is red meat for repulsive v**ers. And compared to the peak of war-time spending at the height of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan — and the expectations that Pentagon planners once had for how much spending would grow — the defense budget was down. So your claim is misleading to say the least.

Having lived through the Great Depression my grandfather was a hard core democrat. He was a wealthy farmer and rancher thanks to Roosevelt's ag policies he was able to take advantage of and cash in handsomely when WWII broke out. He was a staunch pacifist and h**ed war.

buffalo Loc: Texas

That was my grandfather's point...He considered himself extremely lucky. He was a sheep rancher during the depression. The government was buying sheep producers lamb crops (because there was no moarket), slaughtering them and then burying the carcasses. So my grandfather started trading his muttons for ewe lambs and keeping them. When he amassed too many for the land he had leased he just leased more land as it was easy during the depression. When WWII broke out the price of wool and lamb meat went through the roof. He sold enough sheep to outright buy 1280 acres of land in south Concho County Texas with enough ewes left to stock it with. He died at 75 years of age in 1979 owning nearly 2700 acres of farm and ranch land and he and my father leased another 1800 acres in south Coleman County Texas.

Thus his saying, "With just a little luck s**t will do for brains".

Fit2BTied Loc: Texas

Sorry son of witless. That's what I get for not reading the previous message. Buffalo's granddad then. Heck, I wish it had been my grandfather - it's a great quote.