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Originally posted by neo96
1. According to a study of Federal Reserve data conducted by NYU professor Edward Wolff, for the nation’s richest 1%, inherited wealth accounted for only 9% of their net worth in 2001, down from 23% in 1989. (The 2001 number was the latest available.
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Less than 10% of today's "millionaires" inherited their money.
Originally posted by moniesisfun
How would you expect me to?
It's not the same as what I requested of buster. He would provide statistics from a legitimate source.
Me...you want...what, exactly
Originally posted by campanionator
The reason America is failing is because the taxes need to be lower and lower (for the rich people)
For example when George Bush took office, gas was at $1.15 - the summer before he left office gas
was $4.50 - that nearly 400% jump is because when he lower taxes for them twice, he didn't lower them
enough. It is also because when Dick Cheney had those private meeting with oil companies he made
them sad and so they needed to charge 4 times as much money to pay for therapy.
Who cares anyways?
Gas is cheap, it's not like people on ATS buy gas!edit on 6-10-2012 by campanionator because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by campanionator
He tried to work out healthcare with the Republicans, or do you forget?
Originally posted by neo96
The Bush tax cuts only for the rich eh?
Then Why is Obama fighting to keep those tax cuts for incomes up to 250 thousand eh?
could be because those bush tax cuts benefited everyone.
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Originally posted by Andcoulter
Originally posted by Gridrebel
The blame game????again????? Yet you ignore the fact he had the first two years as an open book, anything he wanted. Why do people seem to forget this?
Because the Republicans with filibuster power used a record number of filibusters to stop anything and everything including bills sponsored and written by Republicans just to stop them.
Why do you pretend that did not happen?
Do you feel ENTITLED to your own set of facts?
Ha, see what I did there.
I tried to get back on topic again.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has embraced the argument that President Obama was able to pass every bit of his legislative agenda in his first two years thanks to large Democratic majorities in both houses of Congress. It’s intended as a counterpoint to the President’s re-election strategy of attacking the congressional GOP as do-nothing obstructionists. But it’s also a revisionist history of the 111th Congress, during which McConnell more than any other Republican in Washington stood athwart Obama’s agenda to great effect.
The White House has “been trying to pretend like the President just showed up yesterday, just got sworn in and started fresh,” McConnell declared Sunday on CNN’s State of the Union. “In fact, he’s been in office for three years. He got everything he wanted from a completely compliant Congress for two of those three years… We are living in the Obama economy.”
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Originally posted by Andcoulter
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Originally posted by Gridrebel
Originally posted by Andcoulter
Originally posted by Gridrebel
The blame game????again????? Yet you ignore the fact he had the first two years as an open book, anything he wanted. Why do people seem to forget this?
Because the Republicans with filibuster power used a record number of filibusters to stop anything and everything including bills sponsored and written by Republicans just to stop them.
Why do you pretend that did not happen?
Do you feel ENTITLED to your own set of facts?
Ha, see what I did there.
I tried to get back on topic again.
NOOOOO. Do you know what an open book is?? He had the house and the senate for two years. Please study your political science. How do you think he was able to get passed all that he did?
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has embraced the argument that President Obama was able to pass every bit of his legislative agenda in his first two years thanks to large Democratic majorities in both houses of Congress. It’s intended as a counterpoint to the President’s re-election strategy of attacking the congressional GOP as do-nothing obstructionists. But it’s also a revisionist history of the 111th Congress, during which McConnell more than any other Republican in Washington stood athwart Obama’s agenda to great effect.
The White House has “been trying to pretend like the President just showed up yesterday, just got sworn in and started fresh,” McConnell declared Sunday on CNN’s State of the Union. “In fact, he’s been in office for three years. He got everything he wanted from a completely compliant Congress for two of those three years… We are living in the Obama economy.”
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Originally posted by Andcoulter
Originally posted by moniesisfun
How would you expect me to?
It's not the same as what I requested of buster. He would provide statistics from a legitimate source.
Me...you want...what, exactly
So you can just make any claims you want, but other people need to back theirs up?
Odd set of rules you gave yourself there.
He said something and you did not believe it so you asked him to back it up.
Are you asking me to trust you?
If you cannot back it up, what good is it to say to begin with?
I am just curious why in the same post you would ask someone else to back up something they wrote, then write something yourself you refuse to back up.
Originally posted by Gridrebel
NOOOOO. Do you know what an open book is??
Originally posted by Andcoulter
The answer is a fact, not an opinion.
Senate Republicans want a 60-vote threshold for a debt-limit bill to pass the chamber, but it's actually Democrats who are enforcing the filibuster on their own legislation, insisting on delaying a vote until 1 a.m. Sunday morning.
Originally posted by sonnny1
Originally posted by Andcoulter
The answer is a fact, not an opinion.
Senate Republicans want a 60-vote threshold for a debt-limit bill to pass the chamber, but it's actually Democrats who are enforcing the filibuster on their own legislation, insisting on delaying a vote until 1 a.m. Sunday morning.
Democrats enforce filibuster against their own debt bill
The game is played by both sides.
Originally posted by neo96
reply to post by Gridrebel
Those democratic congressman held power for longer than 2 years from 2006-2010 they held the majority.
Then for those 2 years they held all 3 branches, and some people think others will buy "the rights filibusters".
To someone else::
Learn some manners, lose the condescending attitude a conversation might be had.
Originally posted by neo96
reply to post by Gridrebel
Those democratic congressman held power for longer than 2 years from 2006-2010 they held the majority.
Then for those 2 years they held all 3 branches, and some people think others will buy "the rights filibusters".
To someone else::
Learn some manners, lose the condescending attitude a conversation might be had.
Originally posted by Andcoulter
Your answer "Democrats filibustered a thing."
Is yes or not too complicated?
On Dec. 18, McConnell took to the floor to highlight what he called majority Democrat’s “dubious record” of “denying the minority its right to amendment a total of 43 times.” McConnell noted that Frist, over a similar four-year period, used the procedure known as filling the amendment tree, only 15 times to prevent then-minority Democrats from offering amendments. “The current Majority has blocked the minority from offering amendments more often than the last six Majority Leaders combined,” McConnell asserted.
A budget resolution based on President Obama’s 2013 budget failed to get any votes in the Senate on Wednesday. In a 99-0 vote, all of the senators present rejected the president’s blueprint. It’s the second year in a row the Senate has voted down Obama’s budget.
Originally posted by sonnny1
Originally posted by Andcoulter
Your answer "Democrats filibustered a thing."
Is yes or not too complicated?
Yes.