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Of course, those 20% are recipients of Robbing Hood.


1 posted on 08/23/2011 5:50:24 AM PDT by markomalley
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What “anti-poverty” programs exist? what will teach actual skills? What will actually build something of use?


2 posted on 08/23/2011 5:52:37 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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Pareto-Principle alert.

guess which 20%.

3 posted on 08/23/2011 5:53:02 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand
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Take a look at Haiti, Somalia, Bangladesh. I would argue that we have no poverty in the US.


4 posted on 08/23/2011 5:53:49 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The USSR spent itself into bankruptcy and collapsed -- and aren't we on the same path now?)
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If less than half of Americans pay any federal income tax, shouldn’t it be higher than 20% if all the recipients were included? I mean the current tax system redistributes wealth by taxing the upper brackets more and giving lower brackets not only no tax but often the benefit of refundable credits (money coming back to the “taxpayer” even when they dont pay taxes to begin with). So if it was all recipients the poll would say a majority, not 20%. So this poll seems to mean that even a vast majority (25-33%) of the recipients of funds from government anti-poverty programs even hate them. Certainly not good news for Oba.


6 posted on 08/23/2011 5:57:53 AM PDT by wrhssaxensemble (We need an electable conservative in 2012!)
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In other news:

The other 80% of Americans say the government is doing just fine at creating poverty and mayhem.


7 posted on 08/23/2011 6:02:00 AM PDT by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
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They work great. Manufacture millions of new Democrat votes every year. That’s the point, and always has been.


9 posted on 08/23/2011 6:09:53 AM PDT by Steely Tom (Obama goes on long after the thrill of Obama is gone)
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I truly suspect that less than 20% of any Federal programs could be reliably said to achieve their stated goals. If they did so-it would be time to terminate them


11 posted on 08/23/2011 6:11:40 AM PDT by mo
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12 posted on 08/23/2011 6:29:30 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Muslims who advocate, support, or carry out Jihad give the other 1% a bad name)
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You get more of what you focus on and invest in. Our economy and way of life are imperiled because over the past decades we increasingly focused on and invested in poverty. The return on that investment has been the destruction and wealth and what might have been. Our economy and prosperity are being sucked by a vortex of negativity into the destructive black hole of poverty. Pouring focus, energy and material resources into negativity is failure itself. It is folly in the extreme and a sure formula for disaster. Our only hope that we can reverse this trend, our only hope that we can rescue our future is to understand and immediately reverse this dynamic.
Ours was a robust, muscular appreciation based society. Appreciation that led to the recognition and the taking advantage of opportunities. Being appreciation based and opportunity driven we were propelled to unprecedented wealth, prosperity and growth. Over the past decades we have shifted to more of a flaccid and effete culture dominated by whining and pity. Whining and pity are an outcome of focusing on the negative. All a formula for failure and decline.


13 posted on 08/23/2011 6:32:47 AM PDT by all the best
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OBAMA HIT AN ALL-TIME LOW ON RASMUSSEN TODAY!!!!!

-26!!!!!!!

SPREAD THE WORD!!!


14 posted on 08/23/2011 6:34:36 AM PDT by ConservativeDude
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If we just required those who got federal or state benefits to provide some sort of work to the feds or the state at least we could get some productivity out of these people!


18 posted on 08/23/2011 10:17:18 PM PDT by Almondjoy
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