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  • The poor: Reagan vs. Obama

    09/16/2013 10:22:00 PM PDT · by Innovative · 6 replies
    Trib Live ^ | Sept 15, 2013 | Ralph R. Reiland
    I think the poor need another Reagan in the White House. The income of black heads-of-households dropped by 10.9 percent from June 2009 to June 2013. This decline in black income is more than double the overall 4.4 percent drop nationally in real, adjusted for inflation, median household income during the same four years of alleged “recovery.” In dollar terms, the median income per year ... in female-headed households and black households has dropped, respectively, by $2,300 and over $4,000 since Obama's stimulus-led “recovery” began in June 2009. The CBO report shows that after-tax household income, adjusted for inflation, increased...
  • You Don't Have to Stay Poor

    09/11/2013 3:42:56 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 24 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | September 11, 2013 | Walter E. Williams
    No one can blame you if you start out in life poor, because how you start is not your fault. If you stay poor, you're to blame because it is your fault. Nowhere has this been made clearer than in Dennis Kimbro's new book, "The Wealth Choice: Success Secrets of Black Millionaires." Kimbro, a business professor at Clark Atlanta University, conducted extensive face-to-face interviews, took surveys and had other interactions with nearly 1,000 of America's black financial elite, many of whom are multimillionaires, to discover the secret of their success. Kimbro's seven-year study included wealthy blacks such as Byron E....
  • The South killed the safety net

    09/08/2013 7:38:33 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 27 replies
    Salon ^ | September 7, 2013 | Sasha Abramsky
    Europeans came to this country for a better life. It hasn't always meant helping the less fortunate. The South’s aversion both to taxes and to mandated government safety net structures had a long, and somewhat surprising, pedigree. In the late eighteenth century, popular radical writers such as Condorcet in France and Tom Paine in England had called for the creation of comprehensive social insurance systems based around universal pensions, child allowances, and education for all. Neither, however, managed to successfully alter prevailing political and moral doctrines. In France, after the frenzy of the revolutionary years the counterrevolution of the post-Napoleonic...
  • O’Reilly: Sharpton Calls Me ‘Brutalizer of the Poor’ But I Bailed Out One of His Charities

    08/15/2013 6:27:22 PM PDT · by Nachum · 26 replies
    Free Bacon- er.. Beacon ^ | 8/15/13 | staff
    Fox News host Bill O’Reilly revealed Thursday night on The O’Reilly Factor that he bailed out one of Al Sharpton’s charities several years ago with a $25,000 donation, after Sharpton told him it was out of money and could not provide Christmas food and presents to hundreds of poor people in Harlem. Sharpton has often used his MSNBC program PoliticsNation to harshly criticize O’Reilly, lately for supposed attacks on the poor. Tuesday night, he accused the highly-rated host of calling food stamps users “parasites,” when in fact O’Reilly was referring to an individual surfer who is on the SNAP program...
  • Poor Quality Ammuniton due to Shortage Blows up 1911 Kimber (YouTube video, 7m36s)

    07/30/2013 10:07:35 PM PDT · by LibWhacker · 45 replies
    YouTube ^ | April, 2013
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  • DC Politicos Block Walmart, Help Special Interests, Hurt The Poor

    07/22/2013 4:52:40 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 26 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | July 22, 2013 | Star Parker
    Why, when there is no question that nothing has created more wealth and eradicated more poverty than capitalism, do left wing politicians hate it so much? After all, it’s supposed to be the left that cares about the poor. The latest chapter in this ongoing saga of economic perversity is action being taken in Washington, DC, to prevent Walmart from opening stores there. The District’s city council has passed a bill, awaiting signature of the Mayor, specifically targeted to block Walmart. It raises the District’s minimum wage 50 percent to $12.50 per hour only for stores with more than $1...
  • Obamanomics: Rich Get Richer, Everyone Else Gets Poorer

    04/25/2013 4:54:05 AM PDT · by IBD editorial writer · 13 replies
    Investor's Business Daily ^ | 04/24/2013 | IBD Staff
    When President Obama first ran in 2008, he claimed his economic policies would "foster economic growth from the bottom up and not just from the top down." He said he'd put in place "an immediate rescue plan for the middle class" and would end the "tired, worn-out, trickle-down ideologies we've been seeing for so many years." Obama got all he wanted in his first two years in the White House, when Democrats had solid control of Congress — a massive stimulus, auto industry bailouts, temporary middle class tax cuts, vast new regulations on businesses and ObamaCare. But his policies produced...
  • Can poor people be trusted with guns?

    03/12/2013 6:15:33 PM PDT · by marktwain · 41 replies
    foxnews.com ^ | 12 March, 2013 | John Lott
    Can poor people be trusted with guns? Overwhelmingly, Republicans thinks so. But while Democrats fight against taxes on the poor and oppose voter photo IDs because they impose too much of burden, they seem to be doing everything possible – from fees, expensive training requirements, and photo IDs -- to make it next to impossible for the poor to own guns. Indeed, legislation in at least 17 states around the country is aimed specifically at making it more costly to own a gun. Democrats are voting in mass against exempting the poor from fees when it comes to guns. New...
  • The sequester (Hussein's idea) hits the poor especially hard

    03/04/2013 5:13:45 PM PST · by Libloather · 21 replies
    MSN ^ | 3/04/13 | Jonathan Berr
    The $85 billion in federal spending cuts triggered by the sequester will hit low-income Americans dependent on government assistance especially hard, according to the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, a progressive-leaning think tank. According to organization, about 3.8 million long-term unemployed workers with federally funded benefits will see about an 11% cut in those weekly benefits. The Women, Infants and Children nutrition program will have to turn away as many as 600,000 to 775,000 women and children by the end of the year. More than 100,000 people will lose housing aid. "There is no way to cut $85 billion...
  • New Social Class Coming

    02/01/2013 9:44:10 AM PST · by A'elian' nation · 6 replies
    Japan has recognized a new class of citizenry. They exist here too in great abundance. After the Fascist-Progressives get all the money they can get from the middle class and the rich and wealthy and still find themselves wanting, this is the next target group. They won't even have to tax them to fill their coffers. In just three years, Japan will reap 74 billion from them. But Japan has a labor shortage problem, and this could also be a way to solve that problem. It is also preferable to raising the minimum wage. So who is this new social/political...
  • Police officer buys homeless man a pair of shoes [Hold on...we have HOMELESSNESS under Obama?]

    11/30/2012 2:50:40 AM PST · by SoFloFreeper · 45 replies
    WWAY-TV ^ | November 30, 2012 | Katelyn Supa
    One tourist's photograph, among the countless snapped every day in the Big Apple, has gone viral. The moment captured is one of generosity, and since it was posted on Tuesday, it has circled the globe and brought a lot of attention to one young New York City cop. Had it not been for a tourist from Arizona who snapped the photo with her cell phone, Officer Lawrence DePrimo's act of kindness, giving boots to a homeless man, may have gone unnoticed. Tourist Jennifer Foster emailed the photo to the NYPD and they posted it to their Facebook page. Tens of...
  • How the $500 million Powerball lottery is a tax on the poor

    11/29/2012 8:11:47 AM PST · by ExxonPatrolUs · 51 replies
    The Week ^ | November 28, 2012 | Ryu Spaeth
    [Households that earn at most $13,000 a year spend 9 percent of their money on lottery tickets. ] With the Powerball lottery jackpot reaching a record $500 million, people from around the country are flocking to local convenience stores to try their luck. The majority of those standing in line for tickets and joining office pools are likely not habitual lottery devotees, but rather casual players who decided to get in on the fun once the media reported the unprecedented size of the pot. However, the everyday lottery business is a much grimmer affair, relying overwhelmingly on "poverty, habit, and...
  • So What If Taxing Rich Hurts the Economy? (And creates more poor?)

    11/22/2012 11:09:46 AM PST · by SeekAndFind · 35 replies
    Townhall ^ | 11/22/2012 | Larry Elder
    Consider this headline from a Reuters article in The Huffington Post: "Raising Taxes on Rich Won't Hurt Economic Growth, CBO Says." But the first paragraph refutes the headline: "Allowing income tax rates to rise for wealthy Americans would not hurt U.S. economic growth much (emphasis added) in 2013 ..." The CBO did not say, as the headline suggests, that raising taxes on the rich has no negative economic effect. In fact, the CBO actually said that extending the Bush-era rates for all would increase economic growth by 1.5 percent. If, however, the Bush era rates expired for the rich --...
  • What do the Poorest 10 Cities in America Have in Common?

    11/11/2012 5:54:52 PM PST · by TurboZamboni · 23 replies
    godfather politics ^ | 11-10-12 | gary demar
    Government programs designed to help the poor have destroyed generations of American families, schools, and culture. One would think that repeated bad economic news and the downgrading of families that inhibit job growth would lead people to find a better solution to help them out of their impoverished condition. Instead, they vote for the same type of politician who blames the wealthy, calls for tax increases, and wonders why poverty goes up, businesses move out, and crime and illegitimacy soar. The following ten cities have a great deal in common. The first thing is their poverty level. The second is...
  • Romney, Not Obama, Shows Concern For Nation's Poor

    10/30/2012 3:51:37 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 1 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | October 29, 2012 | Byron York
    CINCINNATI - There's an odd imbalance that few have noticed in this presidential campaign. In the midst of a continuing economic downturn, one candidate talks regularly about poverty, and the other doesn't. The one who does is the Republican, Mitt Romney. He's done it for a long time. Go back to Romney's March 30 speech in Appleton, Wis., in which he introduced the charge that President Obama is creating a "government-centered society." "Over 46 million Americans are now living in poverty, more than ever before in our nation's history," Romney said. "In households with single moms, over 39 percent are...
  • Look Toward Renewal

    10/27/2012 3:44:11 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 2 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | October 27, 2012 | Kathryn Lopez
    If we don't love the poor and do all we can to improve their lot, we're going to go to hell, the Catholic archbishop of Philadelphia, Charles J. Chaput, recently said. It's not pretty, but it is real. And not just if you believe in hell, but if you care about the future of the country, of civilization. We actually are a people of compassion, and we happen to believe that people who want to serve their neighbors out of love of God and humanity are a necessary thing for our neighborhoods, for civil society, for the life of our...
  • Poverty Nonsense

    10/17/2012 5:22:40 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 8 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | October 17, 2012 | Walter E. Williams
    Here's a recent statement frequently suggested by leftist academics, think tank researchers and policymakers: "People were not just struggling because of their personal deficiencies. There were structural factors at play. People weren't poor because they made bad decisions. They were poor because our society creates poverty." Who made that statement and where it was made is not important at all, but its corrosive effects on the minds of black people, particularly black youths, are devastating. There's nothing intellectually challenging or unusual about poverty. For most of mankind's existence, his most optimistic scenario was to be able to eke out enough...
  • Medicaid Plan Shows that Obama’s an Enemy of the Poor

    10/10/2012 9:58:16 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 3 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | October 10, 2012 | Peter Ferara
    As in so much else, Progressives hold an outdated conception of the debate over entitlements. They conceive it as the Left supporting generous entitlements for seniors and the poor with no questions asked, no obligations expected, versus the right supporting no safety net at all, let private charity handle it, and if some of the poor have to starve, and some of the sick suffer or die without health care, because private charity is inadequate, so be it. But modern, free market conservatives have built on Hayek's recognition that social safety nets are not inconsistent with free markets, and just...
  • Under Obama, Poor, Middle Class Incomes Fall Sharply

    10/02/2012 9:43:43 AM PDT · by Perdogg · 11 replies
    Despite repeated promises that he would build prosperity from the bottom up, President Obama has presided over three years of income losses for the middle class, according to the latest household income data from the Census Bureau. Since 2009, the middle 20% of American households saw their average incomes drop 4%. In 2011 alone, they fell 1.7%. The poorest 20% have fared even worse under Obama, Census data show. Their incomes have dropped more than 7% since 2009, and are now lower than they've been at any time since 1985, after adjusting for inflation.
  • Under Obama, Poor, Middle Class Incomes Fall Sharply

    10/02/2012 5:23:35 AM PDT · by IBD editorial writer · 5 replies
    Investor's Business Daily ^ | 10/02/2012 | John Merline
    Despite repeated promises that he would build prosperity from the bottom up, President Obama has presided over three years of income losses for the middle class, according to the latest household income data from the Census Bureau. Since 2009, the middle 20% of American households saw their average incomes drop 4%. In 2011 alone, they fell 1.7%. The poorest 20% have fared even worse under Obama, Census data show. Their incomes have dropped more than 7% since 2009, and are now lower than they’ve been at any time since 1985, after adjusting for inflation.