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kentuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 10:26 AM Original message |
"Show me a poor man that ever created a job..." |
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Aviation Pro (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 10:28 AM Response to Original message |
1. Show me a rich man.... |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 10:30 AM Original message |
They call it "family values" |
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NewJeffCT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 11:40 AM Response to Reply #1 |
23. True story |
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Aviation Pro (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 02:26 PM Response to Reply #23 |
35. Making him.... |
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NewJeffCT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 02:29 PM Response to Reply #35 |
36. ding ding ding |
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bluestateguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 10:29 AM Response to Original message |
2. Well, we warehouse a lot of poor people into prisons in this country |
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loudsue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 11:36 AM Response to Reply #2 |
22. The prison situation in the US is one of my pet peeves. |
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Labors of Hercules (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 10:30 AM Response to Original message |
3. Show me a person who believes this... |
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Orsino (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 10:30 AM Response to Original message |
4. Show me a poor man who ever shipped a job overseas... |
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yourout (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 10:32 AM Response to Original message |
5. Ding, Ding. Ding..........Money given to the middle class on down almost always goes immediatly.... |
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liberal N proud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 10:33 AM Response to Original message |
6. Show me a rich man who shared his tax cut with someone who needed a job? |
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sinkingfeeling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 10:34 AM Response to Original message |
7. Isn't the problem with 'free markets' the need for everlasting expansion? |
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Extend a Hand (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 11:02 AM Response to Reply #7 |
19. A rmonetary system that requires everlasting expansion... |
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Bonobo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 10:35 AM Response to Original message |
8. Show me a rich man that walked downtown and supported local business. |
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NightWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 10:36 AM Response to Original message |
9. I personally know 3 "poor men and women" who have created jobs |
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lakeguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 10:38 AM Response to Original message |
10. us poor people create all the jobs |
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DangerDave921 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 12:56 PM Response to Reply #10 |
34. OK, but |
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FormerDittoHead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 10:39 AM Response to Original message |
11. Yes. Show me a RICH man who ever created a job where there wasn't the DEMAND for his work... n/t |
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havocmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 10:40 AM Response to Original message |
12. The rapid shift of money to the top proves that the rich aren't "reinvesting" |
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Arkansas Granny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 10:42 AM Response to Original message |
13. Exactly. More money in a rich man's pockets usually stays there. |
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rAVES (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 10:44 AM Response to Original message |
14. Trickle down economics is a flaming load of bullshit. only a simpleton would say it :) |
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deminks (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 10:54 AM Response to Reply #14 |
15. We starve and die waiting for something to trickle down the rethug's leg. |
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rAVES (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 10:56 AM Response to Reply #15 |
16. Yes, hate is free, and with a well tweaked population, a mighty harvest!! |
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underpants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 11:00 AM Response to Reply #14 |
18. The phrase itself started as a joke by Nixon about THEM |
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SammyWinstonJack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 11:46 AM Response to Reply #14 |
25. I just want to know who they think is going too buy their cheap China made crap |
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wryter2000 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 11:53 AM Response to Reply #14 |
28. IIRC, someone called it voodoo economics |
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Botany (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 10:58 AM Response to Original message |
17. This guy? |
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NewJeffCT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 11:42 AM Response to Reply #17 |
24. and, today GE employs 400,000 people worldwide |
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jtrockville (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 11:29 AM Response to Original message |
20. Every single taxpayer! |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 11:33 AM Response to Original message |
21. I did. |
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michreject (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 11:47 AM Response to Original message |
26. I worked with some people who were so inept |
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wryter2000 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 11:50 AM Response to Original message |
27. How many jobs has Paris Hilton ever created? |
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CK_John (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 11:55 AM Response to Reply #27 |
29. PH is an industry. n/t |
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EstimatedProphet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 12:05 PM Response to Original message |
30. Exactly. Here's why: |
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kentuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 12:11 PM Response to Reply #30 |
31. Economics 101 teaches that for every dollar spent... |
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EstimatedProphet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 12:24 PM Response to Reply #31 |
32. Right. And when someone spends it on other things, the economy shrinks |
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catmandu57 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 12:42 PM Response to Original message |
33. You build from the bottom up |
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IdesOfOctober (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-20-08 03:13 PM Response to Original message |
37. Kick! |
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Elspeth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-20-08 03:16 PM Response to Original message |
38. Any small business owner who hires people is a job creator |
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krispos42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-20-08 03:26 PM Response to Original message |
39. Poor people are creating tons of jobs... in China! |
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librechik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-20-08 04:08 PM Response to Original message |
40. Edison was poor in the beginning. Carnegie was poor in the beginning. |
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Jed Dilligan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-20-08 04:15 PM Response to Original message |
41. Yeah, the poor don't eat, pay rent, buy gas, wear clothes, |
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