Bfwilley

Thanks Obama!

Drenki

Yup - "fudge with the numbers until it fixes the problem!"

goodluvin

Don't worry. Everything is going according to plan..

Rich need tax breaks. Poor need to pay their share. Despite all the economic gains going to the top 1%.

Need to reduce benefits to the poor and increase spending on Defense.

Politicians have nothing to gain by giving benefits to the poor(99%). Poor don't give money to them. Only the rich do. Almost every decision reflects this.

(There are exceptions. Obama care might qualify except for the fact there are absolutely no cost controls.)

edit: added "despite" part

DJexs

Correct me if I am wrong but at some point in the future isn't it required that you either have insurance or have obamacare? That is a tax on the poor. After a little research it appears that somewhere between 3million to 6 million people are gonna owe the government a hundred dollars each. Now why on earth are we charging people who cant afford insurance a hundred dollars for not having it? How is this not directly a tax on poor people.

This country is at war and it isn't against terrorism and it isn't against drugs it is against the poor. That is why so many black people get killed by cops, not because they are black but because once they where released from slavery they were not made middle class citizens or elevated or even given the proper tools to elevate themselves. The police patrol poor neighborhoods, and many towns are now finding out that the people coming to buy the drugs and devastate these communities are upper class suberbians. They have been poor since slavery and that is what we need to do something about, helping the poor, improving our schools, our infrastructure, and our communities. not dividing the country on racism and fighting pointless wars so politicians can see their stock prices go up. /endofftopicrant.

rhava

this is exactly right and should be the first post at the front of every comment page about race and racial relations. It has always been about a war on the poor since agriculture first started its time we stopped the war on the poor.

Drenki

Of course, and I don't even need to read the article:

  1. health care is now mandatory for employees over a certain number of hours
  2. employers cut hours to bring them under the cap
  3. employees need to make up for the cut hours so they get a second (or third) job
  4. There are now a larger percentage of low paying jobs (not workers), bringing the average down.