“The GOP would do well to do something about the over taxation and over regulation that kill and prevent job creation.”
BINGO!
An interesting statistics in the NYT article I just posted in my post 3:
“The poverty rate for full-time workers is just 3 percent. For those not working, it is 33 percent. “
Too many seem to think that beating up on the poor is a winning strategy. The simple fact is that its a losing strategy even in the cases where the poor deserve it.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3108217/posts
Cutting people off welfare doesn’t create a single job. Tax dollars saved will just be wasted elsewhere. Sure the entitlements need to be severely cut to those who are the most in need but you’ve got to have jobs for people to go to or you end up with an enraged underclass who push even harder for socialism.
all the while the former category is much less than half of the registered voters, while in a presidential 70% of the former group votes while upwards of 110% of the latter group votes.