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- inactive, on 07/03/2008, -0/+4The article says it all, but is anyone really surprised?
- brad3378, on 07/19/2008, -0/+2$845 Billion divided by
117 million taxpayers (source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_the_Unite ...
= $7,222.22 per taxpayer. - cosmiq, on 11/25/2008, -0/+1So, this plan of bailing out poor people in other countries. Why do they stupidly compare their earnings by saying they live on less than $1 per day? That is so deceptive. $1 per day in a tribal society that hardly ever uses money, is not poverty. Some of those tribes own their land, grow their own food, make their own clothes, etc. And they share and trade with each other. Plus things in their country cost a penny where it might cost a dollar here.
So it's stupid and false to claim they live on $1 per day as if they had to live like we do and have the same costs, which they don't.
By the way, we're stupid too, just that we should have more close knit extended families and clans like tribes, that help each other out and take care of each other. Then our own costs wouldn't be so high, we would keep our family lands and share and make a lot of stuff without needing so much money to "go to a store and buy" everything. Our own ancestors never went to stores, that is a recent phenomenon. They used to make their own stuff and trade it with each other or just give it to family and needy people. How did we get so far away from that? We would live well on far less too if we got back to something like that.
ANYWAY, everyone should tell Obama to save America's poor and not worry so much about other countries. get onto www.change.gov , his transition website, and put in your opinion. - cosmiq, on 01/01/2009, -0/+1Oh by the way--- we should look at the monetary exchange rates and what it will buy in those" impoverished" countries. Is Obama really so much a deceived simpleton, that he hasn't done so? maybe he is, and thus, manipulatable.
--- because, if a 1 US dollar buys in their poor country what a 100 US dollars buys over here....well. Then he better start calling everyone in the USA who "only" lives on a hundred dollars a day, "impoverished". But he obviously isn't doing the math or thinking about such square- one concepts as, the fact that a dollar goes a very long way in poor countries.
Oh, yeah. he's an attorney. Most attorneys don't do math, that's why they bill so high...... - cosmiq, on 11/25/2008, -0/+1oh my God. We have skyrocketing numbers of poverty level and DEEP Poverty level Americans right now! He, like so many others including the Bushies, must be totally out of touch with OUR OWN needs as a nation. That's got to change! Now that he is elected, we'll have to get his attention focused on America's dire straits needs for our own poor. Numbers are phenomenally increasing of American poverty, this has to get the main focus and get addressed properly.
So I propose that he start implementing an economic stimulus plan that works for the American poor first- instead of bailing out the biggies. Since he wants to do bailouts. Give big grants to the poorest Americans to buy a car or a down payment on a cheap foreclosed HUD home, etc. and increase the lowest SSI, Social Security, unemployment, etc benefits so they will have more than 400 or 600 dollars a month to live on.....etc. Also increase foodstamps for the poorest, since all those benefits have been cut back beyond the bone since Reaganomics and the War on America plan.
The welfare haters had their way, now we have millions of Americans homeless and suffering on incomes LESS than poverty level.
Then the poor Americans cans spend the money, get bailed out of such hardships that are killing them, and get the economy going from the BOTTOM UP. - skypilot1973, on 07/30/2008, -0/+1And who else is going to "fit the bill" other than the United States. I don't hear anything about any other country "paying to eliminate poverty". There just doesn't seem to be something right about this situation. And who are the instigators that "didn't realize" what this Congressional bill was really about? I think Barack Obama is out of bounds here. He's not the "superman" he thinks he is, but somehow, he's gone from being all about protecting the interests of the United States, to "punishing" the very country he is a native of by the mere suggestion that the USA "pick up the tab" for the woes of the world. Seldom does anything come of trying to eliminate poverty in other countries when the very leaders of those countries fail their own people by military rule and suppression of their populaces. All we would do is trade our poverty for their poverty. Let us all pray this madness will stop before it is too late. The ballot box is where we make decisions for America, not for the rest of the world.
- thefarmhouse, on 08/28/2008, -0/+0I'm all about helping the less fortunate but to have it mandated by the government is getting a bit ridiculous. We can't even eliminate poverty in this country what makes this fool think we going to eliminate it throughout the world? This guy is a joke. You think the economy is bad now? Just wait until he's in office (if he gets there).
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