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Originally posted by MrSpad
Originally posted by wildtimes
reply to post by Terminal1
New CNN/ORC International poll suggests at this point of time, (May 19th, 9AM) President Obama has not taken a hit on his popularity.
Well, he did in MY HOUSE!
If people aren't paying attention (which most of them are not!), they'll just keep on keeping on with these dreams of hope, change, prosperity, justice, etc.
I was all about it a few years ago. Now I'm just Pissed As Hell.
Oh well. Live and learn.
People want peace and strong economy and that is what they are getting. The past has shown us that Obama will be like Reagan and Clinton. Coming into office in hard times and leaving with things much better. While Obama has not had scandals on the level of those to even if he did people do not care as long as they have peace and prosperity.
Big business is making its way around the world like a modern-day Attila the Hun, pillaging and despoiling the planet.
May 19, 2013
The damage caused by the relentless corporate drive for profits has become more clear in recent years. In the most important areas of American life, devastating changes have occurred:
Household Wealth: Median wealth fell by 66% among Hispanic households and 53% among black households between 2005 and 2009, mainly because of the mortgage banking collapse. Almost half of Americans have ZEROwealth, with their assets surpassed by debt.
Water and Food: Life-giving seeds and drinking water have been increasingly treated as products to be bought and sold.
All these areas of life have been degraded by a free-market system that has thrived on publicly-funded research, infrastructure, and defense. Yet in a brazen show of hypocrisy, major corporations have ignored all the problems they've caused, choosing instead to cut their taxes in half despite doubling their profits, to hold 60% of its cash offshore, to eliminate workers rather than create jobs, and to reduce the pay of their remaining employees.
An Apple executive explained: "We don't have an obligation to solve America's problems."
The World Bank estimates the total cost for a successful attack on malnutrition would be approximately $10.3 to $11.8 billion annually. Apple alone underpaid its 2012 taxes by $11 billion, based on a 35% rate.
It may be time to update [Apple's] quote: "We don't have an obligation to solve the world's problems."
Originally posted by theconspirator
reply to post by NOTurTypical
The marine corp is a branch of the US Navy
Well that's it. I am not voting for him again!!!
-puts his foot down-
Originally posted by wildtimes
reply to post by SaturnFX
Well that's it. I am not voting for him again!!!
-puts his foot down-
LOL!!! First of all, I believe you are female ........ if I'm wrong, please correct me.
Second - NO ONE can 'vote for him again'!!