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emulatorloo

(43,979 posts)
3. Yes, according to them, Obama is responsible for every bad thing that happened during the Bush admin
Mon Jan 16, 2012, 02:15 PM
Jan 2012

blm

(112,919 posts)
5. It's been a 30 year plan to collapse the middle class. GHWBush/Jackson Stephens/China
Mon Jan 16, 2012, 02:26 PM
Jan 2012

It didn't just 'happen' even in the last 10yrs - it's been the plan since the Bush-Stephens' deaalings with Chinese industrialists in the 70s....and they used WalMart to get the global fascism ball rolling. They made China the manufacturing center for NWO while reducing America to a 'service' economy that would further separate the classes.

http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-child-labor-2012-1

 

AnotherMcIntosh

(11,064 posts)
9. Absolutely right. This is traceable to Jackson Stephens whose name is not generally known.
Mon Jan 16, 2012, 02:45 PM
Jan 2012

He's dead now, but his legacy continues.
http://www.nationalcorruptionindex.org/pages/profile.php?profile_id=283

This began in 1971 when Congress passed and Nixon signed the DISC legislation as the first step towards outsourcing American jobs. After the passage of the DISC legislation, Nixon traveled to China in 1972 for his China summit.

Stephens was a super-banker. The biography of him and his connections to U.S. politicians, although short, is well worth reading.

liberal N proud

(60,298 posts)
4. No wonder Huntsman dropped out - he couldn't get a word in edgewise
Mon Jan 16, 2012, 02:21 PM
Jan 2012

Looking at the top chart, he had 1,356 words compared to Pawlenty who hasn't been in the race since the Iowa Staw Poll who had more than 6 thousand.

How does a man who isn't even in the race have such a large word count in the debates?

hfojvt

(37,573 posts)
6. that's just as well
Mon Jan 16, 2012, 02:32 PM
Jan 2012

I am sick of politicians, Democrats included, who talk about the middle class when what they really mean is the UPPER middle class and trickle down for the rest of us.

As far as I am concerned saying "middle class" over and over and over again is just a way of saying "I don't care about the lower class"

blm

(112,919 posts)
7. More like the REMAINS of the middle class, which has actually been reduced to working class and
Mon Jan 16, 2012, 02:38 PM
Jan 2012

the working class is now the working poor.

hfojvt

(37,573 posts)
10. either way the lower class only gets the trickle down
Mon Jan 16, 2012, 03:04 PM
Jan 2012

like Obama's Payroll Tax cut that he adopted from the Republican platform. Obama, and the M$M will insist that it is a "middle class" tax cut. Yet the distribution of its benefits looks like this

12.1% of the payroll tax cut goes to those in the bottom 40%
26.7% of the payroll tax cut goes to those in the top 10%

27.1% goes to those in the bottom 60%
46.4% goes to those in the top 20%

The TOP 40% get 73% of the benefits. The bottom 40% gets 12.1%.

But thank goodness Obama is fighting for the middle class.

Because, apparently, anybody who is not in the top .1% is in the "middle".

 

oberliner

(58,724 posts)
11. Which debates was Gary Johnson involved in?
Mon Jan 16, 2012, 03:31 PM
Jan 2012

How is it possible that he has gotten more words in that Huntsman?

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