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01-10-18, 07:16 PM | #1 |
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OK I'll bite. To who?
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01-10-18, 08:00 PM | #2 |
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The way things are going for the GOP? Almost anybody...
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01-10-18, 08:17 PM | #3 |
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Yea well when Hollywood decides .... let me know.
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01-11-18, 12:57 AM | #4 |
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If things are going badly for the GOP it's due to their failure to embrace the President that their supporters overwhelmingly chose and stand behind.
Stand behind no matter what the mainstream media arm of the Democratic Party continue to throw against the wall, a year later, hoping something eventually sticks.
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01-11-18, 05:35 AM | #5 |
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So now we're just going to elect people who have billions of dollars? And poor people think Oprah has their interests at heart? Get real. She's no different than Trump. Just a cutthroat business person herself. You don't become a billionaire giving away YOUR money. She gives away products from companies who give her products to give away using her name. Then those companies make a profit when rich men's wives watch her show (while their rich husband is off at work working his butt off and she's home working her butt on) complain that some woman got a cool car on TV and how she wants a cool car just like she got or she's gonna scream! (Imagine Veruca Salt from Willy Wonka) And the rich man gives his wife everything she wants just to keep her from whining and complaining like that because chances are she's super attractive and uses her looks to play him like a fool but he likes having an attractive wife to sleep with even if she does cost him a fortune with her materialistic wants.
What the US needs is a middle class man who wants to take the job and wants to lower the wages for the entire US government, including the president so that the president can't make more than the average middle class person. Same with everyone in congress and the senate also. Someone who wants to tax the rich so that they can feel it just the same as a poor or middle class person. Someone who wants to overhaul the justice system so that the rich can feel that too. For instance, something isn't fair or right when a poor person and a rich person commit the same crime and the bail is set at 10,000 dollars the rich person can come up with $1000 real easy and post bail while the poor person can't unless he can get lenders to lend him the money to post the bail. $1000 to a rich person is like $10 if that. Maybe even a dime if they are rich enough. The poor person will struggle to pay off any lenders for that $1000 he borrowed to post his bail. (Note: Bail amount is usually 10% of what is stated. $10,000 = $1000 to post bail.) Heck, most poor can't even get anyone to lend them any money and just have to sit in jail and pay for their crime by losing their freedom. I think the richer you are, the more you should have to pay for your crime. For one thing, if you're rich, why are you even committing crimes? You should be an example to society, not a criminal. So sick of seeing poor people get raked over the coals in court and the rich walk free. They can afford the best attorney's to represent them also. Screw that. Everyone should be given a public attorney. So much for the representation of "scales" being used when it's quite obvious that the poorer you are in society the more you pay. But since the rich are always running the show, it makes sense they are going to look out for their interests and screw the poor over. But the poor outnumber the rich so the poor really need to get smart and STOP electing rich people into office. Duh! Even Obama! So dumb! Elect someone who is closer to your economical position to get better representation. |
01-11-18, 06:43 AM | #6 | |
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Just when you talk about a grandfather-style or nation's mummy style candidate, then him or her must not be attractive, aTV commentator commeneted laconically. Grandfathers and mummies must not look young and hot anymore to be loved by others nevertheless. This is the kind of fundamental motives that decides elections. And this I am expected to take serious, this holy grail of democracy? Infamy. I take offence from that.
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01-11-18, 07:25 PM | #7 |
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I will E-mail Bill Gates and tell him that he is doing it wrong.
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01-11-18, 07:45 PM | #8 |
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Bill Gates gives away money he made before.
I do not want to see the write-offs he gets for that from his tax bill. Before anything else, Gates is a business man. THAT is what made all the money running after him.
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01-11-18, 08:23 PM | #9 | |
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https://givingpledge.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Giving_Pledge Anything that encourages persons of great wealth to try to assist others is well worth the effort. BTW, about twenty years ago, I read an article about the person who handles the Gates' financial affairs and one of the issues touched on was administration of the Gates' charities, at that time primarily funded solely by the Gates' own wealth. Their charity foundations are tax-exempt foundations and, as such, are under strict tax laws in order to maintain tax-exempt status. One of the requirements is a charity must spend a specific, and significant, portion of the available funds or lose their tax-exempt status. In the article the financial manager was asked about disbursements and, in an example, he stated one of the charities was required, in that tax year, to disburse over USD $350,000,000. That was twenty years ago; imagine what the amount must be currently, and, remember, that sum was for just one of the Gates' charities... <O>
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