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Old 12-23-2013, 08:47 AM
 
Location: Long Island
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Originally Posted by EmeraldCityWanderer View Post
Wait, I thought Obama was a communist Marxist that was stealing from the rich and giving it to the poor.

Can you guys make up your minds what the hell Obama is, instead of dancing between mutually exclusive terms.
seems like you are another one of the sheeple


""Fascism is a system in which the government leaves nominal ownership of the means of production in the hands of private individuals but exercises control by means of regulatory legislation and reaps most of the profit by means of heavy taxation. In effect, fascism is simply a more subtle form of government ownership than is socialism."" Mussolini
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"The aim of socialism is not only to abolish the present division of mankind into smaller states and all-national isolation, not only to bring the nations closer to each other, but also to merge them." lennin .
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"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of 'liberalism,' they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened."--- Norman Thomas, former U.S. Socialist Presidential Candidate
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"A Marxist begins with his prime truth that all evils are caused by the capitalists. From this he logically proceeds to the revolution to end capitalism, then into the third stage of reorganization into a new social order, and finally the last stage -- the political paradise of communism." Saul alinski
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all you have to do is connect the dots
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Old 12-23-2013, 08:51 AM
 
Location: Long Island
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The right wouldn't know what a left winger was even if their life depended on it. A left-winger is whoever Fox tells them it is. If you want a real left-winger, then look at Elizabeth Warren. Obama is a centrist corporate hack.
warren is in the pocket of wall street...who the f are you kidding
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Old 12-23-2013, 08:54 AM
 
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???
ok, i'll break it down source-by-source, since you clearly cannot distinguish between journalism and analysis.

Claims Boston has high rent, to which I say, "No kidding!"

Also includes the tidbit:

median rents nationally have risen 7 percent to $861 a month in 2012 from $802 in 2000


does a 7% increase in 12 years say "Skyrocketing" to you?

^only applies to seattle, uses statistics from zillow, and is therefore irrelevant


^only applies to certain areas of NYC, and is therefore irrelevant

furthermore, article suggests that rents in these certain areas retraced their 3Q 2008 highs in 2Q 2013, suggesting that they declined between '08 and '13

^ this one isn't even an article, you clearly didn't bother to read it

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And that's just the US hits on the first page - the UK seems to be having a similar problem.

Or is this just more sensationalism from liberal media?
they do what they can to sell newspapers.
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Old 12-23-2013, 08:55 AM
 
Location: Long Island
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rents aren't soaring
not sure if soaring it the correwct word...but rents sure are going up...so are property taxes
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Old 12-23-2013, 09:33 AM
 
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What then shall we employ as a standard for 'educated'?
A continued drive to learn more. The ability to hold high-educated based jobs above and beyond others.

An educated person has training or skill beyond the average. A low wage person is not above average, or they wouldn't be low wage.
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Old 12-23-2013, 09:35 AM
 
Location: By the sea, by the sea, by the beautiful sea
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No he is just the typical stupid democrat who makes things worse and blame it on someone else...
As opposed to typically stupid republicans who make things worse and are so in denial they refuse to admit there's something happening that deserves blame?
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Old 12-23-2013, 09:36 AM
 
Location: Billings, MT
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wait a minnit...
I have been hearing that statement: "The rich get richer and the poor get poorer!"; for as far back as I can remember (I am over 70).
As much as I do not like Barack (if he is talking, he is lying)obama, that can't be laid on his doorstep, it has been a fact for many years, even before he was born!
However, his "hope and change" has done absolutely nothing to change it, and may have enhanced it to some degree.
THAT certainly CAN be laid on his doorstep for him to step in!
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Old 12-23-2013, 09:54 AM
 
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wait a minnit...
I have been hearing that statement: "The rich get richer and the poor get poorer!"; for as far back as I can remember (I am over 70).
it ebbs and flows

in time periods when the poor get richer and the rich get poorer (e.g. the 1940's-1960's), it isn't as if everyone suddenly acknowledges the state of affairs.
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Old 12-23-2013, 01:48 PM
 
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??? If that's the case. Democrat policy is unsustainable. On the other hand, the republican policy of increasing the number of the rich AND the number of those dependent on the rich, IS sustainable, even symbiotic.

I've read a claim that there are 800,000 degreed poor people in this country - what is their party?

It is surprising that more than 800,000 working-age adults with post-secondary education are–in fact–poor.
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In 2000 for example, 22% of poor working-age adults had obtained a post secondary degree.

Rise of the Educated Poor in the Republic

Unsustainable? Perhaps you did not read what I said.

The goal of the democrat party is to create more poor people, and thus more constituents (The Curley Effect). Witness

more unemployed
record numbers on foodstamps
record numbers on social security disability
lower incomes
more part time jobs
more citizens on medicaid
more citizens living in poverty

The above has occurred under Obama's watch. What does this do? It INCREASES the number of democrat voters. I would offer (particularly with 30 million new poor people under immigration reform slated to be new citizens) that the democrat party is ENSURING ITSELF of long term stability.
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Old 12-23-2013, 02:28 PM
 
Location: Alaska
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The right wouldn't know what a left winger was even if their life depended on it. A left-winger is whoever Fox tells them it is. If you want a real left-winger, then look at Elizabeth Warren. Obama is a centrist corporate hack.
You really need to quit drinking and posting. It's to the point that I'm embarrassed for you and for me to say something like that should give you a good idea of the extreme lack of intelligence in your posts.
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