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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RetiredNow who wrote (112223)	4/6/2012 4:11:32 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

<<I think he trafficks in psuedo science and lives in an ivory tower, whereas, I live in the real world where there is no free lunch and the government can only ever take food from one mouth to give to another.>> When the governrment takes from the 1% to give to the 99% they are not taking from one mouth to another. You could take 90% of romneys wealth and he could still feed his kids just fine. <<The government doesn't create wealth.>> Sure they can create wealth. They can loan money to businesses, fund educaton (which creates jobs when people get educated, prime the pump during a recession, guarantee loans, lots of things. <<All they can ever do is reallocate it. And boy are they reallocating like madmen right now. From the 99% straight to the 1%. I'm a beneficiary, but I don't have to like it. I happen to think it is immoral to impoverish my kids so that I can benefit. That is the Republican's who are in bed with the 1% doing the reallocating from the 99% to the 1% e.g. they forced Obama to extend the Bush tax cuts and they voted unanimously to protect big oils tax breaks!; and if you are in the 1% your kids are just fine!