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To: tejek who wrote (49780)	8/5/2006 12:45:58 AM
From: Alan Smithee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

You were so impressed with your post you had to post it twice?

To: tejek who wrote (49780)	8/7/2006 3:05:56 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

You're repeating yourself.

To: tejek who wrote (49780)	8/7/2006 3:35:02 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 90947

How can this be? We know you Dems declared war on povwerty over 40 years ago and we know you never fail! federal minimum wage has remained flat for years Let's see. Some teenager id offered a job at half the minimum and takes it and gets income for his family. Or the employer obeys the law, the job isn't worth what he has to pay, and nobody gets it. Which is better? Which does more to reduce poverty? union membership has declined "Union" is a 4-letter word, you fool! Those Clinton years you are so proud of: was union membership going up or down during them? Eh? I know personally of 2 cases where unions threatened to strike, the companies involved said they would close the plants rather than meet union demands because doing so would turn them into money losers, the unions struck anyway, and the plants were closed. A lot you did THERE to reduce poverty, right? The workers went from an income to none. and industries have faced global competition You think global competition is going to go away just because you don't like it? So let's say you ban imports, gas goes to $18 a gallon, unemployment heads for 50%, and everybody's happy, right? Are you an idiot or do you just play one on SI? Renwick also suggested that governments, when giving tax breaks to companies, insist those companies provide jobs that pay higher wages. Yeah. That way foreign competition can babkrupt the manufacturers and put everyone out of work. Big help. The report by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and the Economic Policy Institute, both liberal-leaning think tanks As if we couldn't tell. Four decades after a U.S. president declared war on poverty, more than 37 million people in the world's richest country are officially classified as poor and their number has been on the rise for years. That's what I said. Exactly how do you define "poverty" anyway? To get the numbers you like? America's poor are rich by world standards. Maybe if you stupid libs would get out of this country and see some of the world, you'd realize that. The agency's slowness in responding to the hurricanes and the funding shortfall angered lawmakers on both sides of Capitol Hill. Last month, Sens. John Kerry, D-Mass., and Mary Landrieu, D-La., blasted the SBA for not asking for more disaster loan recovery money until it was almost broke. The two lawmakers have asked the agency to give them a daily accounting of the balance in the loan program. You estern clowns seem a little slow. We westerners realized a long time ago that the Feds were no good at this.