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To: tejek who wrote (511655)	9/9/2009 2:46:45 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577883

"I suspect tax cuts to the rich did not benefit the poor back in Reagan's day either" OF COURSE they didn't! Reagan's term was the beginning of the homeless that plague this country now. You just didn't see them before Reagan, they were so few. The next time you see some schizophrenic yelling at phantoms in the street, you can thank Reagan as well. He closed all the state mental hospitals by cutting off federal aid. The Reaganites thought that crazy people would do just as well in jail, if needed.

To: tejek who wrote (511655)	9/9/2009 2:54:35 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577883

>>> Bush's tax cuts did not benefit the poor. You're doing what most liberals do on this subject -- conflating unrelated, or at least irrelevant, topics. Did the rich get richer? Yes. But that in no way implies the poor didn't. In fact, while the rich have gotten richer over the last 30 years, the poor have gotten richer still. For example, from tinyurl.com The following are facts about persons defined as "poor" by the Census Bureau, taken from various government reports: * Forty-three percent of all poor households actually own their own homes. The average home owned by persons classified as poor by the Census Bureau is a three-bedroom house with one-and-a-half baths, a garage, and a porch or patio. * Eighty percent of poor households have air conditioning. By contrast, in 1970, only 36 percent of the entire U.S. population enjoyed air conditioning. * Only 6 percent of poor households are overcrowded. More than two-thirds have more than two rooms per person. * The average poor American has more living space than the average individual living in Paris, London, Vienna, Athens, and other cities throughout Europe. (These comparisons are to the average citizens in foreign countries, not to those classified as poor.) * Nearly three-quarters of poor households own a car; 31 percent own two or more cars. * Ninety-seven percent of poor households have a color television; over half own two or more color televisions. * Seventy-eight percent have a VCR or DVD player; 62 percent have cable or satellite TV reception. * Eighty-nine percent own microwave ovens, more than half have a stereo, and more than a third have an automatic dishwasher. ================================ "Poor" is in the eye of the beholder. It is important to remember that almost ALL of the people in this category are receiving government welfare payments in some form or another. Then, they're buying color tvs and dvd players with it. So, that's "poor" in America.