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To: arno who wrote (79009)	6/22/2018 2:47:47 PM
From: Wharf Rat	3 Recommendations Recommended By abuelita bentway combjelly Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 362004

"We've spent trillions already for the 'needy' " Coal companies, oil companies, wheat growers, milk producers, Pig Pharma, military-industrial complex....

To: arno who wrote (79009)

6/22/2018 4:18:01 PM

From: koan

Respond to of 362004

Those are Bush's word and his rational for his deep tax cuts for the rich.

And yes we have spent trillions on the poor and we saved millions of people by doing it.

Compare life today to life in 1929!

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Balanced budget??

Message #79009 from arno at 6/22/2018 2:44:42 PM

Balanced budget??

Only if you believe in unicorns

BTW, We've spent trillions already for the 'needy' and the percentages are about the same as when LBJ changed us to a welfare society.

We have the worlds richest 'poor'.

Everybody knows that.

To: arno who wrote (79009)	6/22/2018 7:57:07 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 362004

We've spent trillions already for the 'needy' and the percentages are about the same as when LBJ changed us to a welfare society. I suppose it depends on your definition of "about the same". Those programs cut poverty to about half of its historic norms. It has never gotten back to that point, but under Republican administrations it tends to get higher. We have the worlds richest 'poor'. Not really. I will grant you that they tend to do better than subsisting on rat heads and mud puddles like the very poorest in the world do. But they don't do as well as in many of the developed world. Not to mention that by some measures, like life expectancy, there are developing world countries that do better.