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Tsiyu

(18,186 posts)
12. We'll have to agree to disagree on intent of OP
Tue Jan 15, 2013, 08:40 PM
Jan 2013




People are truly struggling out there. Wages are a joke, no health care so even one serious illness means people are losing their homes, millions unemployed or under-employed ( I am one ) and we want to do studies to show that poor people have to rob Peter to pay Paul?

I'm just sick of our society's demonizing poverty at a faster rate than we create poverty. We need living wages, single payer and higher taxes on the wealthy. Corporations like General Electric need to pay taxes AND be penalized for taking jobs out of the country.

Instead, we want to "do studies" on poor people? How goddamned petty and wasteful can we get here?

Here's the number one "study" I've produced:

Make the bloated wealthy pay their fair share, make businesses pay people a living wage, instate single payer health care plans, stop waging exhorbitantly-funded wars on the harmless habits of the poor and on brown people with oil, but wage war on Wall Street criminals instead, and most of our problems will disappear!





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