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When Barack Obama, the Federal Reserve and the mainstream media tell us that we are in the middle of an economic recovery, is that supposed to be some kind of sick joke? According to newly released numbers, over 44 million Americans are now on food stamps.
That is a new all-time record and that number is 13.1% higher than it was just one year ago. So how many Americans have to go on food stamps before we can all finally agree that the U.S. economy is dying? 50 million? 60 million? All of us? The food stamp program is the modern equivalent of the old bread lines.
More than one out of every seven Americans now depends on the federal government for food. Oh, but haven't you heard? The economy is showing dramatic improvement. Corporate profits are up. The stock market is soaring. Happy days are here again.
Originally posted by boncho
reply to post by Amaterasu
35, 000 jobs, that seems like a bold statement. It also sounds statistically impossible, unless you have a terrible resume.
Did you try applying to the integrity research institute?
Originally posted by Amaterasu
...When one is laid off and five years goes by (despite applying to over 35,000 jobs), money runs out and one might find oneself homeless (I did) and then falling into the (not so gentle and caring) hands of the System..
Originally posted by boncho
reply to post by Amaterasu
35, 000 jobs, that seems like a bold statement. It also sounds statistically impossible, unless you have a terrible resume.
Did you try applying to the integrity research institute?
Originally posted by XRaDiiX
The 1% (elite) make more money yearly than the bottom 50%(poor) combined. Until that changes the world will be corrupt. We need a revolution and now
Originally posted by DragonTattooz
The US Corporate Government is a Ponzi scheme. Ponzi schemes are unsustainable. It's time to throw these corporate crooks to the curb and take our &^%$#@& country back!!!
I was just reading an article describing how the biggest corporations are avoiding paying taxes. This has got to stop! NOW! How can BofA pay their top people millions and millions of $$$$ and not pay taxes? IT IS INSANITY!
20 jobs a day? You call her a liar for hitting various websites and copying and pasting her resume 20 times/day? You imagine that to be too much work? Really? That would actually take only an hour or maybe 2 per day. She obviously has the time. I refute your refutation.
Originally posted by boncho
I refute this claim.
Originally posted by apacheman
The only revolution we need is a fairly simple one:
Cap wealth at $1 billion and one.
There is absolutel NO legitimate, moral, ethical, or economic reason to allow unlimited wealth. Capping wealth at that level would effect less than a thousand people worldwide, 937 as of last year.
www.forbes.com... -Worlds-Billionaires_Rank.html
To those horrified at taking what someone has "earned", tough. I dispute they've earned it all fairly, legally and ethically. In any case, they have no rational need for it, and they have consistently abused the power it has given them, constantly creating conflict on a global scale for their own amusement and competitions.
Enough.
Cap wealth and most of our problems go away.
Allow the billionaires to compete in a new way by giving them four years to give away their excess wealth.
Tell them that if they want more, the cap is per planet, so feel free to go develop another fortune on the Moon or Mars.
Originally posted by apacheman
The only revolution we need is a fairly simple one:
Cap wealth at $1 billion and one.
There is absolutel NO legitimate, moral, ethical, or economic reason to allow unlimited wealth. Capping wealth at that level would effect less than a thousand people worldwide, 937 as of last year.
www.forbes.com... -Worlds-Billionaires_Rank.html
To those horrified at taking what someone has "earned", tough. I dispute they've earned it all fairly, legally and ethically. In any case, they have no rational need for it,
Originally posted by apacheman
and they have consistently abused the power it has given them, constantly creating conflict on a global scale for their own amusement and competitions.
Enough.
Cap wealth and most of our problems go away.
Allow the billionaires to compete in a new way by giving them four years to give away their excess wealth.
Tell them that if they want more, the cap is per planet, so feel free to go develop another fortune on the Moon or Mars.edit on 6-3-211 by apacheman because: (no reason given)edit on 6-3-2011 by apacheman because: don't know why it's all bolded..removed all format tags..preview looks normaledit on 6-3-2011 by apacheman because: maybe the universe is adding the emphasis? lol
Originally posted by XxXAmmoXxX
reply to post by apacheman
That's actually a pretty decent idea. Why would anyone need more than $1 billion to support themselves and their families anyways? Even that amount is absurd for one person unless they are addicted to the power that such wealth would allow. Anything in excess of $1 billion could be put back into the economy and allow people to have actual opportunities again.
Originally posted by 46ACE
Originally posted by DragonTattooz
The US Corporate Government is a Ponzi scheme. Ponzi schemes are unsustainable. It's time to throw these corporate crooks to the curb and take our &^%$#@& country back!!!
I was just reading an article describing how the biggest corporations are avoiding paying taxes. This has got to stop! NOW! How can BofA pay their top people millions and millions of $$$$ and not pay taxes? IT IS INSANITY!
caveat: I am not a tax accountant nor do I play one on t.v.)
Does any of that make sense to you?Of course not; but you will hear it repeated by wukky and the other hardcore liberals .
If BoA or any other corporation pays its ceos:"millions and billions of dollars and per diem tooo(?) they will pay taxes on it as "personal income".Not nearly as much as the libs think they should but it IS taxed. if the corporation itself shelters its earnings ( "profits" come after payroll is made i believe) 100% ( and I don't know if its even possible) it stands to reason the more they pay their execs and workers the more of that organizations profits are taxed as personal income...(?) I Could be "ig'nant", been called that in the past...edit on 6-3-2011 by 46ACE because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Amaterasu
Originally posted by boncho
reply to post by Amaterasu
35, 000 jobs, that seems like a bold statement. It also sounds statistically impossible, unless you have a terrible resume.
Did you try applying to the integrity research institute?
Snide comments are not likely to endear you to anyone, love.
Lessee... I applied to about 25-35 jobs a day on the internet... Five years (365 days) = 1825, 1825 x 25 (being conservative) = 45,625... Some days I did not make applications - but I also applied in person to about a job a week average...more at first, but fewer as I exhausted the options locally. I think "over 35,000 jobs" is a VERY conservative estimate.
And frankly, at one time I worked for the Employment Development Department (was laid off THAT job, too - budget cuts) assisting people in constructing their resumes, amongst other things. I have a clue how to create a good resume.
A great number of jobs I applied to were not local - that was a great disadvantage, and I am older now competing with 20- and 30-somethings, and that is a HUGE disadvantage. Your insinuation that the problem exists with ME is rather rude, dude.