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Originally Posted by ricecrispi
koslov has it on the nail.
That is the real world, not some model. You think I got any trickle down effect from the bin laden families investing into the bush family and got them into the white house or when worldcomm, enron, and few other companies went belly up?
A perfect example of trickle down economy is the Dubai islands. It does exist but not in the US and it's exploitative mindset.
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Let's compare the poor in the US to the rest of the world.
87% of the "poor" in the US own a car
94% own at least one color TV
91 % of the "poor" in the US have air conditioning.
The AVGERAGE poor teen today weighs 20 lbs more than the WW 2 soldiers when they enlisted. Looks like they are not starving to death......
The average poor person in the US has a Lifestyle equal to that of a utopian socialist middle class British citizen. Must be that trickle down effect........
The US has spent the sum of 7 tillion dollars since Lyndon Johnson fighting the war on poverty and guess what? The poverty rate has not changed 1% since it's inception. I would like to know when we are going to win that one.......Maybe whe can hire a special prosecuter to find out who stole the money there....
The poverty rate under george bush is actually lower than it was under clinton...
That trickle down effect again......
Socialists teach that making money is evil, that self interest is evil or selfish.
Me, I think it a virture ala` Ayn Rand. A prosperous society is the most moral of societies and does provide for the poor. Facilitating wealth is what makes the US rich, if you want the benefits of socialisim move to Cuba I hear they have some kind of paradise going on down there
Remember the French Heat Wave a couple of years ago? 14,000 old people died, ( more than have been killed in IRAQ)left to bake while everybody else was down frolicking at the beach. The French are selfish socialist turds in my opinion. French economics, politics, culture are as everywhere deeply intertwoven, stucturally it's cracking, I believe that if it keeps on it's present course it's headed for third world status. which would be to bad to see.
