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kentuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-06-12 12:18 AM
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Arith-me-tic !
When the Big Dog stood proudly before the cheering crowd of Democrats tonight, he said that Republicans wondered how a poor country boy from Arkansas could go to Washington and balance the federal budget. Bill Clinton said it wasn't complicated. It was "arithmetic".

He had a response for every distortion and every lie that had been forth by the leaders of the other Party. From Medicare to health care to welfare reform to whether or not we are better off now than 4 years ago. The Big Dog was emphatic!

He pointed out in the simplest and bluntest manner how Republican numbers did not add up. He explained slowly and carefully how their plan was to cut taxes another $5 trillion dollars and how they were going to cut tax loopholes and make cuts across government to pay for the tax cuts. He spoke dead seriously how many people, poor children and the handicapped, would suffer under the Romney-Ryan plan.

But he also pointed out that when you asked them what cuts they were going to make or what tax loopholes they were going to close, they always say to wait until "after the election". He said their plan was missing one small thing - arith-me-tic!
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No Elephants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-06-12 12:30 AM
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1. Reagan and Poppy Bush had both raised taxes and Clinton "ended welfare as we know it."
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NYC_SKP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-06-12 11:28 PM
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2. I am surprised at how much I loved that speech!
:P
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Contrary1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-06-12 11:42 PM
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3. When I was just a wee lass...
I attended a Catholic school. My 3rd grade teacher, a particularly scary nun named Sr. Patricia, informed us early on. If we didn't learn our math (especially multiplication tables), then 4th grade would not be in our near future. To this day, I can still do math in my head.

Basic math.

Why does it have to be so difficult? You need more money to pay bills? Then, you figure out how to make more money. You don't make it with less income.

Repubs are pandering to the rich, hoping their idiot followers don't catch on.
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No Elephants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-10-12 03:25 AM
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4. No worries. The Republicans managed to convince their followers how
unfair it would be to expect the wealthy to pay for public assets that that they use.

Somehow, getting tax breaks for taking jobs out of the country, consuming--and bot infrequently despoiling-- the planet's natural resources, etc. is admirable, while Americans working for a living is tawdry.

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Me. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-10-12 10:32 AM
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5. Sigh
Too late too recce
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