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  • Bernie Sanders believes white people don't understand what it's like to be poor

    03/07/2016 4:07:56 AM PST · by Marcus · 69 replies
    Blasting News ^ | March 7, 2016 | Mark R. Whittington
    The best that can be said about Sunday night’s debate between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders is that it was more decorous than the Republican one the previous Thursday. Nothing about anatomy came up. However, things said during the debate were actually more frightening. An example occurred when Bernie Sanders, the venerable socialist from Vermont, said, "When you are white, you don’t know what it’s like to be living in a ghetto, you don’t know what it’s like to be poor.”
  • Which religion holds the largest share of wealth?

    01/14/2015 9:10:48 AM PST · by Citizen Zed · 18 replies
    cnbc ^ | 1-14-2015
    The study, from the nonpartisan wealth research firm New World Wealth, found that of the 13.1 million millionaires in the world, 7.4 million, or 56.2 percent, identify themselves as Christian when asked about their religion. Fully 6.5 percent of millionaires identified themselves as Muslim, 3.9 percent identified themselves as Hindu and 1.7 percent identified themselves as Jewish. Fully 31.7 percent of millionaires identified themselves as "other," which includes other religions and "no religion."
  • Obama Budget Would Increase Income Redistribution from Top 1 Percent of Taxpayers by $112 Billion

    02/13/2010 7:00:35 PM PST · by TheFreedomPoster · 14 replies · 507+ views
    THE FREEDOM POST ^ | February 13, 2010 | Matthew Burke
    True to his campaign promise to "spread the wealth around," President Obama's recently released budget targets high-income earners for income redistribution to low- and middle-income families, according to a new Tax Foundation report. The president's policies would redistribute an additional $112 billion from the top 1 percent of taxpayers down the income scale in fiscal year 2012.