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Filed in National by on June 17, 2009

When is it ok to help out fellow Americans?  What Americans are worthy of being helped?  What happens to the people that aren’t deemed worthy of being helped?  Who helps them? Are the Republicans the only one that know that answer?

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  1. Rebecca says:
    June 17, 2009 at 10:41 am

    If you are a white farmer you should get lots of government welfare.

    If you are a white CEO you should get lots of government welfare.

    And, it goes without saying, you need to be male, and it helps to be older.

    Otherwise, ya better pull yourself up by your boot straps gang. You don’t qualify for any help.

    It’s the GOP-Way!

  2. jason330 says:
    June 17, 2009 at 10:47 am

    You should get government welfare after your house is destroyed by a hurricane – provided you are not black and/or poor.

  3. arthur says:
    June 17, 2009 at 12:20 pm

    thurman adams
    nancy cook
    dave sokola

    all bastions of helping the little people.

  4. Brian Shields says:
    June 17, 2009 at 12:35 pm

    When is it ok for you to steal money from me to help someone else? I would much rather you ask me to give money to the person who needs help.

  5. Rebuild the Delaware GOP says:
    June 17, 2009 at 1:15 pm

    Total Medicaid Spending
    United States $319,676,945,585

    Top 5% pay 50% of income taxes

    From 1979 through 2003, the total federal tax burden on the highest-earning quintile (one-fifth or 20 percent) of Americans—who earn 52 percent of all income—rose from 56 percent to 66 percent of all taxes. Their share of individual income taxes jumped from 65 percent to 85 percent.

    Antipoverty spending has leaped from 9.1 percent of all federal spending in 1990 to a record 16.3 percent in 2004

    Sounds like a lot of spending going on here.

    Mike Protack

  6. callerRick says:
    June 18, 2009 at 8:50 am

    The bottom 50% of income-earners pay 4% of all income taxes collected. Marx would be proud.

    From each according to his ability…to each according to his needs

    “I need, I need, I need, I need…………………………………….”

    Pathetic.

  7. Geezer says:
    June 18, 2009 at 8:52 am

    Marx, unlike you, would also be able to determine that they still pay FICA taxes, which still go into the general budget, so they’re actually paying quite a bit more than the misleading figure you fucksticks like to cite.

    Pathetic.

  8. jason330 says:
    June 18, 2009 at 8:58 am

    What a loser.

    Al Mascitti actually had a pretty good litttle rant the other day disecting these GOP worms and the threadbare little bag of tricks that they think is teh awesome.

  9. callerRick says:
    June 18, 2009 at 9:07 am

    t“…hey still pay FICA taxes…”

    Big deal, they pay for Social Security.

    “I need, I need, I need……”

    Pathetic.

  10. anon says:
    June 18, 2009 at 9:13 am

    The bottom 50% of income-earners pay 4% of all income taxes collected

    Assuming this is true… and ignoring for the moment that “income taxes” are not the only taxes…

    Hooray for the bottom 50%!!

    The additional services they receive helps make up some of the difference between what they EARN for the rich and what they are PAID by the rich.

    Because without the bottom 50%, the rich would have no workers and no customers, and they wouldn’t be rich at all.

  11. callerRick says:
    June 18, 2009 at 9:24 am

    Hey, let’s go all the way, like the defunct USSR…then, everyone will ‘need’…..except the privileged political hierarchy, of course.

    “Hi, I’m a Socialist-Democrat….this ring through my nose suits me well, don’t you think?”

    Some people are just born to be led around by the nose, like cattle.

    “I need, I need, I need…………………..”

  12. Von Cracker says:
    June 18, 2009 at 10:51 am

    Pay now or have some disgruntled fuck shank your son during a riot in 2023.

    Social programs promote health and stability. You may not like it, but who cares, they work.

  13. Dorian Gray says:
    June 18, 2009 at 10:59 am

    That argument smacks of the reverse racism thing. Oh, I’m an upper middle class white guy, I’m so put upon. Cry me a river you fucking sissy.

  14. pandora says:
    June 18, 2009 at 11:04 am

    Hmm… my bet is he isn’t upper middle class, just brainwashed to vote against his self-interest.

  15. FSP says:
    June 18, 2009 at 11:21 am

    “Marx, unlike you, would also be able to determine that they still pay FICA taxes, which still go into the general budget, so they’re actually paying quite a bit more than the misleading figure you fucksticks like to cite.

    Pathetic.”

    What’s pathetic is that taxes that are supposed to go to pay for Social Security and Medicare instead go into the general budget.

  16. FSP says:
    June 18, 2009 at 11:23 am

    And what’s additionally pathetic is that the stimulus package didn’t include a payroll tax holiday, which would have instantly benefitted everyone, instead of a left-wing interest group cash grab.

  17. anonone says:
    June 18, 2009 at 11:27 am

    What’s pathetic is that taxes that are supposed to go to pay for Social Security and Medicare instead go into the general budget.

    Well, Vice President Gore proposed a “lock box” to prevent that, but your guy couldn’t understand that idea (called it “fuzzy math”).

    Anyway, after your guy stole the election in 2000, he then robbed SS and Medicare to fund his fuzzy wars.

    Thanks to him, the lock box is empty.

  18. FSP says:
    June 18, 2009 at 11:32 am

    “Well, Vice President Gore proposed a “lock box” to prevent that”

    I remember. And if I recall correctly, there were even a few dozen people who believed him.

  19. Geezer says:
    June 18, 2009 at 11:32 am

    “What’s pathetic is that taxes that are supposed to go to pay for Social Security and Medicare instead go into the general budget.”

    Both parties have had plenty of time and opportunity to change that. Neither shows the slightest inclination to do so.

    You do the same thing on the state level, FSP. You don’t seem to understand that politicians only make noises you like when they can’t actually implement the policies they’re espousing.

  20. jason330 says:
    June 18, 2009 at 11:38 am

    I remember. And if I recall correctly, there were even a few dozen people who believed him.

    There were yet others that believed George Bush would be better than Gore.

    And even a few today, knowing how everything played out, who would still pick Bush over Gore.

    Shocking? Yes.

    Pathetic? Clearly.

  21. anon says:
    June 18, 2009 at 11:42 am

    “What’s pathetic is that taxes that are supposed to go to pay for Social Security and Medicare instead go into the general budget.”

    First of all, you are wrong – again. The taxes collected to pay for Social Security and Medicare DO go to pay for Social Security and Medicare – with some left over. That leftover goes to the general budget (in a roundabout way) and is replaced by Treasury debt.

    This is not a bad system, as long as the Treasury obligation does not become too great. There is time to fix that. But before you fix it, you would want to restrain Medicare costs. And guess what – that is what Obama is doing right now, trying to fix health care.

    Nobody has the nerve for the ultimate reform, which is to eliminate the payroll taxes, and fund universal pensions and health care out of a progressive income tax.

  22. FSP says:
    June 18, 2009 at 11:51 am

    “You do the same thing on the state level, FSP. You don’t seem to understand that politicians only make noises you like when they can’t actually implement the policies they’re espousing.”

    Last time I checked, the state checkbook is going online in July, and you can now go into the JFC room. But you’ve never really gotten it right when you criticize me, have you?

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