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By John David Prince 12/04/2008 at 10:01 amThere are many who complain about the welfare system or social programs as this large evil making people want to live on subsistence, assistance, or food stamp aid. First off, the percent of governmental discretionary budgetary spending allocated to public assistance or welfare programs is barely 3 percent. Second, those who complain about social programs being the reason for the government spending being out of control are either blind to or have no concept of the corporate welfare and special interest projects that have no intent on serving the general public good. Subsidies, tax shelters or exemptions, grants, and no bid contracts funnel wealth from the taxpayer’s coffer to the wallets of CEO’s, large percentage stockholders, and select institutions. The wealth by the numbers flows from the bottom up in a pyramidal graph form. It is a trickle up economic equation or rather; it is a tsunami up system of economics. The taxpayer is basically funding the research and development of the very products that will be sold back to them by the institutions that are subsidized by the government. The amount of money that has been fed upon by the business world dwarfs the tax dollars that go to help the poor, needy, hungry, or destitute. We have a moral obligation to help those in need. The same conservatives who complain about the poor who need to pull themselves up by their bootstrap forget that one requires boots in the first place in order to pull themselves up by said bootstrap.
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By John David Prince 12/04/2008 at 9:59 amThe same conservatives who talk about personal responsibility forget about the fact that the market place has its hand in the coffer of the taxpayer. They forget that all the so-called government handouts go to corporations or private big business the majority of the time. While the poor are blamed for bankrupting the nation the trough is being raided by industry in an attempt to offset the cost of research and development for products, the transportation of products, or the safety of the markets the products are sold in. There are multiple billions of dollars are pillaged by special interest groups and corporate entities improving their bottom line, off the backs of the average taxpayer. We the taxpayers are paying for the roads, infrastructure, police, and other civic legal infrastructure that these companies use while selling their products. They should have the same civic responsibility to the systems that support them as is expected of the average citizen, rather than exemption from them. There are just subsidies, grants, or tax breaks, for research that stops disease, improves health, preserves the global ecosystem (environment), or provides the expansion of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, or the general welfare of the people.
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By W F G 12/04/2008 at 4:05 amBold letters
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By W F G 12/04/2008 at 4:04 amBold letters
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By Louie The Liberal 12/04/2008 at 2:10 amahhh ha!!!
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Clinton’s response makes me think of that morning in america reagan thing. As I so eloquently put it.
April 12th, 2008 at 12:02 am
Alan,
Could you please post my video on your blog? I got disconected when I tried to mention it on your show. Please Help the antiwar efforts of Tomas Young and others, pass it on to others.
Promoting this film helps the antiwar movement. I interviewed Phil Donahue in this Representative Press Video, please help amplify his efforts and my efforts, get this video to others. It is important that good crowds show up at the theaters. The movie is showing in several cities, spread the word. See VIDEO: See Body of War, Hear Body of War * Part 2
I want Phil Donahue’s appearance in my video to have been productive so I am really trying to get this video maximum exposure.
April 12th, 2008 at 12:07 am
ET goes fishing? I hear Lefty the Entitlement Hound growling!
April 12th, 2008 at 12:09 am
UFO stories? Well, what better argument is there to have a gun than to blow one’s brains out to escape UFO stories?
April 12th, 2008 at 12:10 am
Can 2nd amendment people think logically? The amendment was created when “arms” were muskets. Could our founding fathers have forseen oozies, handguns, machine guns? Guns are meant to kill things (people and animals)….we don’t need ‘em.
April 12th, 2008 at 12:10 am
The clairvoyant abilites of the Founding Fathers is not by itself a basis to ignore part of the Constitution. If you want to speak of logic, how about presenting a case that doesn’t establish a dangerous precedent. By your logic on what the Founding Fathers might believe, excessive surveillance can be rationalized because the Founding Fathers could not have envisioned the telephone, let alone the internet.
April 12th, 2008 at 12:23 am
read unlawful.
April 12th, 2008 at 12:23 am
ohh. ha ha ha… this is fantastic.
April 12th, 2008 at 12:27 am
Alan is going to “make it rain” during radio graffiti with all those millions he has
April 12th, 2008 at 12:30 am
Yes, he did. Man is part of nature.
April 12th, 2008 at 12:40 am
Well, if god exists he did.
April 12th, 2008 at 12:40 am
I can appreciate Nader’s fervor, but for all his good intentions, if he had not run in 2000 Gore would be President. If this had happened maybe we could have accomplished many of the ideals that he espoused.
If things stink, he has himself to blame.
1/20/09 END OF AN ERROR My Mantra!
April 12th, 2008 at 12:45 am
Oy.
April 12th, 2008 at 12:48 am
Grafitti, huh? I wonder if that woman that calls about the Clintons all the time will get in?
April 12th, 2008 at 12:54 am
He was one of the best.
April 12th, 2008 at 12:57 am
There she is. The last caller? Isn’t she the one who often mentions the Clintons?
April 12th, 2008 at 12:58 am
Oh well. Good night.
April 12th, 2008 at 12:59 am
Flip, you are totally wrong. Gore should have insisted on a state wide recount for Florida, he won the election. Gore got the number of votes he did because of his substandard policies AND if Gore wanted the people who voted for Nader to have voted for him, then he should have adopted the POLICIES which Nader advocated! What in the world is so hard to understand about that? I voted for Nader because I supported the policies of his platform as I intend to in this election. See my website.
April 12th, 2008 at 1:10 am
hey how can tom put his response in bold letters and i cant??
wtf do i have to do to do that?
April 12th, 2008 at 2:10 am
ahhh ha!!!
April 12th, 2008 at 2:10 am
Bold letters
April 12th, 2008 at 4:04 am
Bold letters
April 12th, 2008 at 4:05 am
The same conservatives who talk about personal responsibility forget about the fact that the market place has its hand in the coffer of the taxpayer. They forget that all the so-called government handouts go to corporations or private big business the majority of the time. While the poor are blamed for bankrupting the nation the trough is being raided by industry in an attempt to offset the cost of research and development for products, the transportation of products, or the safety of the markets the products are sold in. There are multiple billions of dollars are pillaged by special interest groups and corporate entities improving their bottom line, off the backs of the average taxpayer. We the taxpayers are paying for the roads, infrastructure, police, and other civic legal infrastructure that these companies use while selling their products. They should have the same civic responsibility to the systems that support them as is expected of the average citizen, rather than exemption from them. There are just subsidies, grants, or tax breaks, for research that stops disease, improves health, preserves the global ecosystem (environment), or provides the expansion of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, or the general welfare of the people.
April 12th, 2008 at 9:59 am
There are many who complain about the welfare system or social programs as this large evil making people want to live on subsistence, assistance, or food stamp aid. First off, the percent of governmental discretionary budgetary spending allocated to public assistance or welfare programs is barely 3 percent. Second, those who complain about social programs being the reason for the government spending being out of control are either blind to or have no concept of the corporate welfare and special interest projects that have no intent on serving the general public good. Subsidies, tax shelters or exemptions, grants, and no bid contracts funnel wealth from the taxpayer’s coffer to the wallets of CEO’s, large percentage stockholders, and select institutions. The wealth by the numbers flows from the bottom up in a pyramidal graph form. It is a trickle up economic equation or rather; it is a tsunami up system of economics. The taxpayer is basically funding the research and development of the very products that will be sold back to them by the institutions that are subsidized by the government. The amount of money that has been fed upon by the business world dwarfs the tax dollars that go to help the poor, needy, hungry, or destitute. We have a moral obligation to help those in need. The same conservatives who complain about the poor who need to pull themselves up by their bootstrap forget that one requires boots in the first place in order to pull themselves up by said bootstrap.
April 12th, 2008 at 10:01 am