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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Freedom Fighter who wrote (111383)	2/16/2008 2:19:39 PM
From: Skeeter Bug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

ff, if that is your position, then state that up front instead of make a claim that you knew you couldn't support and that the data appears to contradict (even if other than policy issues played an impact). let's take a recent policy example - the republicans did all they could to exclude folks in poverty from getting a check while the democrats did all they could to get those in poverty checks. it is republican policies like this that give people the impression that the republicans jack over the poor - which seems to be reflected quite well in the following graph i posted earlier: en.wikipedia.org i agree other factors play roles - but so do republican policies that spread billions to the uber wealthy so they can ship jobs over seas, import modern day labor slaves, sue their customers into oblivion, extend copyright forever, gaming the patent system, extend illegal monopoly powers, set up corporate frauds, bilk the federal government out of billions, etc... all the while fighting against helping out the needy. yes, helping out others in need is not a natural state of mine where as "gimme" is. having said that, all that is natural to us is not good for us. greed leads to wars and 175,000,000 died in the 20th century alone, due to various societies staking their claim to "get theirs."