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To: Hope Praytochange who wrote (681762)5/7/2005 11:11:28 PM
From: Peter Dierks  Respond to of 769667
 
Brooks missed the subtitle: "Democrats object to cuts for the rich." Sub-subtitled "Democrats prefer bankruptcy to cuts for the rich." Or, "Republican proposed cuts for the rich resisted by Democrats."

FDR sayed when he opened this can of worms that as long as everyone saw themselves as beneficiaries of his welfare program no-one could ever cut it. Democrats know that as you reduce benefits to the upper half, their support for the welfare system will wain, dooming it to end.

Republican strength has exposed Democrat weakness.



To: Hope Praytochange who wrote (681762)5/8/2005 8:02:48 AM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769667
 
He's asking middle- and upper-class folks to accept benefit cuts so there will be money for the people who are really facing poverty. NO, he is NOT asking upper class people to accept benefit cuts. $90,000 per year is no longer upper class and David Brooks knows it. For a couple with children, $90,000 per year is very middle class. Above $90,000 there is no benefit cut because there is no tax.


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