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Letter: Trump, other rich oppress the poor ("One out of four children homeless and/or hungry")
The Register-Guard ^ | June 21, 2017 | Robert Rubinstein

Posted on 06/21/2017 5:52:04 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

CEOs receive $38 million to $70 million per year and more, plus benefits. (We don’t know, of course, what President Trump “earns.”) Then, these CEOs fire thousands of their employees.

Companies are closing. People continue losing jobs. Others remain unemployed. Nearly one out of four children in the U.S. are homeless and/or hungry.

This extreme wealth is truly obscene. How many cars, houses, boats and $50,000 coats do the 1 percent need to maintain their status and rip off everyone else, as Trump has?

A mean-spirited Trump and Congress now propose a budget that would sharply reduce health care for the poor, public school funding, Planned Parenthood and protections for a healthy climate and future, and sharply cut food stamps. The housing shortage has become increasingly desperate for the poor, even more so with an ignorant, incompetent Ben Carson in charge of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

The president and the right-wing Republican Congress would do all this to further enrich the extremely wealthy. How pleased they are with themselves. What does this say about their values and humanity?

Robert Rubinstein

Eugene


TOPICS: Heated Discussion
KEYWORDS: foodstamps; poverty; trump; welfare
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To: goodnesswins

Oh...and then I’m often hungry about 10pm...my husband says we should apply for help...we’re seniors, ya know


21 posted on 06/21/2017 6:11:51 PM PDT by goodnesswins (Say hello to President Trump)
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To: P.O.E.

22 posted on 06/21/2017 6:12:03 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

An actual quote from DU posted alittle bit earlier..

“Why not just start executing sick people. That is what the GOP is doing in actuality. They are just killing them and their future with this onerous piece of shit. That is because they are racist to the core.”

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029235704

I LOVE the DU website. This stuff is the greatest !


23 posted on 06/21/2017 6:13:02 PM PDT by Celerity
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Take every bit of money from everyone you consider to be rich and distribute it all to the poor but it still wouldn’t fix anything.


24 posted on 06/21/2017 6:13:31 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
According to an Economic Policy Institute report, a typical American worker “works in a firm with roughly 1,000 workers. Half of employment and are in firms with more than 500 or more employees. Firms with at least 10,000 workers provide 27.9 percent of all employment,

Therefore an average CEO of a big firm making 50 million, if they worked for free ( which why would they?) his or her salary divided amongst the 3,000 workers at the average firm would increase their salary 15, 000 dollars per year. Which might be great the first year, but with nobody in leadership , what incentive at the top would the company have to make plans grow and make a profit so that people could advance and even make more money? 15,00o dollars extra one years salary after the CEO is canned and pay redistributed to the workers , would be far less than if the CEO was allowed to stay and lead the company so that the workers have a stable job year after year with the chance of advancing in pay. Even at minimum wage, of 15,000 yearly , if pay is doubled by canning the CEO, but the company goes out of business the next year total accumulated income would be 30,000 dollars compared to for example a growing business with 10 years of emplyemenbt one could net 150,000 dollars minum or more if they advance with the CEO in position. Simple math, that people seem to not understand, the CEO making 50 million a year would not net employees more money if they confiscated their salary!

25 posted on 06/21/2017 6:14:16 PM PDT by seastay
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To: huldah1776

And the thousands of children in the trash dumps and shanty towns. Oh, the horror.


26 posted on 06/21/2017 6:14:54 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“This extreme wealth is truly obscene. How many cars, houses, boats and $50,000 coats do the 1 percent need to maintain their status and rip off everyone else, as Trump has? “

Hey you Maroon, the people get the jobs that create the cars, houses, boats and coats the rich buy and use.


27 posted on 06/21/2017 6:15:49 PM PDT by FreedomGuru (Islamic terrorism it's "science")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Tell you what, whiners of the world, GO OUT AND DO SOMETHING. Make a big company, be the CEO, and live on $75,000 a year and pay your workers great wages.

Repeatedly do this; get others to do the same thing. Employ tens of millions of people.

You’ll make your point, help the economy, and shame all those people who have worked hard to earn their rewards.

You know, rather than whining from the sidelines while sitting in Mommy’s basement.


28 posted on 06/21/2017 6:17:04 PM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

For some real fun, make grandma eat dog food before you throw her off the cliff and shoot her.


29 posted on 06/21/2017 6:17:26 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Tell us about Hollywood, Beltway Left and MSM rich and how they share get back to us.


30 posted on 06/21/2017 6:22:00 PM PDT by madison10
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To: smokingfrog

Yes, dog food is a nice follow up snack after waterboarding grandma.


31 posted on 06/21/2017 6:22:55 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I do have to admit though, without getting fed at school, many would go hungry. Not most, not 50k per county (I’ve seen posters), but many (IMHO).

Their parents are responsible. You could always tell which kids hated their homelife. They weren’t happy on Friday and especially the holiday and summer breaks.


32 posted on 06/21/2017 6:24:00 PM PDT by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I read the Robb Report so I was unaware of any of this


33 posted on 06/21/2017 6:25:16 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Nearly one out of four children in the U.S. are homeless and/or hungry.”

THAT IS THE WAY OBAMA LEFT US!!!

Obama looked the other way on the homeless problem.


34 posted on 06/21/2017 6:26:59 PM PDT by boycott
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To: huldah1776

When there’s no school lunches, food vans help fill the gap
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3558085/posts

Summer lunch program moves to middle school
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3554804/posts


35 posted on 06/21/2017 6:27:13 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: Vendome

I used to take that magazine and helped my half brother sell exotic animals through it. Unreal photography.


36 posted on 06/21/2017 6:28:44 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yeah, because they view the economy as a pie, and you just slice it smaller and smaller. Now some people have too much pie, better make it fair and the rich people quit hoarding so much......

What a crock. GROW THE PIE, people. Grow the pie. Unleash the entrepreneurs and businesses, to DO WHAT THEY DO.... Who cares if it is based on greed, if the pie is growing? If you can’t contribute to that growth, at least don’t try to kill it.


37 posted on 06/21/2017 6:31:33 PM PDT by Ragnar Danneskjöld
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To: Celerity

It would be wildly entertaining and hilarious, if it were not so disturbing to know they live among us.

See my tagline...


38 posted on 06/21/2017 6:33:19 PM PDT by rlmorel (Liberals are in a state of constant cognitive dissonance, which explains their mental instability.)
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To: FreedomGuru

Good point!

Here in Maine, when the dimwitted democrats passed a so-called “luxury tax” in the 1990’s that included a surtax on large boats and yachts, many shipyards and boat yards here in Maine either laid people off or fired them altogether, because the “rich” started buying used boats and yachts that were not subject to the tax.

End result: a lot of young middle class guys with young families lost their jobs.


39 posted on 06/21/2017 6:34:03 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation ("You can't fix America without pissing off the people who broke it".....Bill Mitchell)
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To: Celerity

I love DU too-——last night I read one criticising Karen Handel for the fact that she only had a high school diploma.

Astonishing for these “champions” of the downtrodden.

.


40 posted on 06/21/2017 6:37:34 PM PDT by Mears
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