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JohnWxy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-20-08 02:10 PM
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McCain cares about average people as much as any Republican does ---
song of a Republican supporter

Whether it's 1932 or 2008, Republicans have so much understanding for the average person.


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BlackButterfly6 Donating Member (8 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-20-08 02:18 PM
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1. John I want to ask you two questions ...
First what are you smoking? That stuff must be good and I want some too.
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JohnWxy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-20-08 04:05 PM
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2. are you one of these republicans who have creeped onto this site, lately?


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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-21-08 03:59 AM
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3. hey Butterfly?
Edited on Tue Oct-21-08 04:01 AM by Skittles
Since you're going to school, how about taking an English class? And why are you still here if that was "all you had to say"?
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JohnWxy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-21-08 11:39 AM
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4. (GROWING) Homeless numbers 'alarming' - USA TODAY -
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-10-21-homeless_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip

More families with children are becoming homeless as they face mounting economic pressures, including mortgage foreclosures, according to a USA TODAY survey of a dozen of the largest cities in the nation.

Local authorities say the number of families seeking help has risen in Atlanta, Boston, Denver, Minneapolis, New York, Phoenix, Portland, Seattle and Washington.

"Everywhere I go, I hear there is an increase" in the need for housing aid, especially for families, says Philip Mangano, executive director of the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, which coordinates federal programs. He says the main causes are job losses and foreclosures.

Other factors have been higher food and fuel prices hitting families with "no cushion," says Nan Roman of the National Alliance to End Homelessness.

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Thank you REpublican party and of course, Phil Gramm Foreclosure Phil for a declining economy based on taxing the average people and giving tax breaks to the very wealthiest in the nation (you can't grow jobs if people have no money to spend) and deregulation and the Credit Catastrophe of 2008 and the following depression.

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michelekibbler Donating Member (3 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-25-08 11:12 PM
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10. Homeless People
I live in WS NC and the City Council and Mayor have caused a lot of the homeless situations here, and they are democrats, all of them. It has been proven that Conservatives donate more than liberals. Is it because they work and have jobs, or understand the value of a dollar? The liberals like to keep the poor man down by letting them live off welfare and not allowing them to better themselves. Is this what you really want? They do that to control you like a bunch of sheep. An uneducated person is the easiest to control. A person that knows how to provide for themselves can easily see that hand outs are not the answer. Yes, some people need a hand up and I am willing to help anybody that will help themselves.
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JohnWxy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-08 03:41 PM
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11. Yeah, we all know what staunch supporters of education for everyone you conservatives are.
Republican's true constituents are the corporate lobbyists and the wealthy. Republican ignorant economic policies have created an economic disaster. Republican stupidity promotes policies which have lead to the greatest concentration of wealth in the hands of the fewest people since the 1920s. This leads inevitably to low job creation, high unemployment and poor economic growth. Eventually, some people get into financial trouble and end up out of work and sometimes without a place to stay. If the economy was healthy, they would have work and there would be less need for charity or welfare. (what conservatives don't get is people want to do well. Given an opportunity and the necessary training, people want to have a job and actually do get a sensse of satisfaction from working.

Now, the deregulation of the futures trading and financial instruments trading which Phil Gramm promoted by sponsoring the Financial Services Modernization act 1998 and the Commodities Futures Modernizaation act 2000 (added as a rider to the 11,000 page Omnibus spending bill of that year) directly lead to this Credit Catastrophe we are now experiencing.

McCain keeps endlessly repeating the "BIG LIE" that Obama is going to raise everybody's taxes. Obama isn't goint to RAISE anybody's taxes. He is going to reinstate the tax rates for those making more than $250,000 a year that were reduced, supposedly temporarily, by W.

Republicans never learn, you cannot have a growing, strong economy if people just don't have the money to create enough demand for goods and services that leads to job creation and economic growth. BUT, EVERY TIME WE GET INTO A RECESSION CONSERVATIVES SAY: "Well, the consumer is two thirds of the economy, so when he comes back out and starts spending then the stock market will go up again."

If you didn't keep over-taxing middle and lower income people, more people would have money to spend and this spending would create demand and that would lead to stronger job creation and we would have a growing economy and the rich would do better too. but Republicans never "get" it.


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JohnWxy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-21-08 11:46 AM
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5. For car dealers, tight credit is fueling a 'catastrophe' - USA Today
http://www.usatoday.com/money/autos/2008-10-20-auto-dealerships-credit-crisis-loans_N.htm


Things are going disastrously," says Ray Ciccolo, owner and CEO of Village Automotive Group in suburban Boston. "Most car dealers were down over 30% last month, and that is a catastrophe."

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In September alone, 61 dealers — two a day — closed shop or downsized to used car lots, says the National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA). Wounded by gas prices that killed sales of their most profitable SUVs and trucks, dealers are being hammered as the economy depresses sales of all models.

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Fewer sales by dealers lead(s) to cuts in auto production. Fewer hours or jobs for assembly-line workers. Fewer parts required from supplier companies. Fewer hot dogs sold to shift workers in plants across the nation.

Not to mention more defaults on mortgages — which got the ball rolling on this economic mess in the first place.

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JohnWxy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-08 02:17 PM
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6. Jobless rate rose in all but 3 states last month
http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/money/20081022/jobless_intro22.art.htm

Unemployment rates were up in 47 states and the District of Columbia in September from a year earlier, as more than 9.4 million people nationwide who were actively looking for work did not have a job, the Labor Department said Tuesday.



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JohnWxy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-23-08 04:20 PM
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7. Record Layoffs Send Workers Job Hunting - ABC News
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=6083197&page=1

"We've lost 150,000 last month alone," said Lawrence Mishel, president of the Economic Policy Institute. "That will continue, concentrated in the housing-related sector, manufacturing, but really throughout the economy."

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JohnWxy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-23-08 04:39 PM
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8. Foreclosure activity rises 71 percent
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JohnWxy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-04-08 05:09 PM
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12. Consumer bankruptcies jump 40% in Oct., top 100,000
http://www.usatoday.com/money/perfi/2008-11-04-bankruptcies_N.htm

As consumers continue to struggle to pay their mortgages, car and credit card bills, ABI predicts that filings this year are expected to rise to 1.1 million, a record since a stricter bankruptcy law took effect in late 2005.

So far this year, consumers have filed more than 880,000 bankruptcy petitions, eclipsing 822,000, the total for all of last year, ABI said.
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The previous record was set last year.


UH, any chance of a bailout for an average person? ...... Yeah, that's what I thought.

partygoers celebrate Republican economic policy of NO regulations.

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JohnWxy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-05-08 01:04 PM
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13. US Oct Auto Sales Slump; GM Sales Down 45%, Ford down 30%, Toyota down 23%
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JohnWxy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-07-08 01:35 PM
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14. Ranks of hungry growing - USA Today
http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20081107/a_fooddrive07.art.htm

To address a potentially unprecedented need for emergency food starting this winter, Feeding America, the USA's largest hunger relief charity, is announcing today the launch of a national fleet of mobile pantries to carry fresh vegetables and other groceries to the hungry.
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The need is immediate. In a national survey in October commissioned by Kraft, 45% of respondents said recent economic changes had jeopardized their ability to provide enough food for their families; 56% of those earning $25,000 or less a year said they are more likely to use a food pantry than they were six months earlier; and 42% of households making $50,000 to $75,000 knew people who were seeking aid for food.

Among Feeding America's 206 food banks, the need for services has risen at least 15% this year, says Vicki Escarra, the group's president. Some of those emergency food providers have witnessed even greater increases.

"I've never seen this type of demand before," says Denise Holland, head of Harvest Hope Food Bank in Columbia, S.C., which will receive one of the mobile pantries. "As a food bank, you just think if you can make it through the summer and the holiday season, you can breathe a little easier because the load gets a little lighter," she says. "But this year that has not been the experience. It's been full-throttle every day."


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xotoxi Donating Member (8 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-12-08 11:51 AM
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15. GOP
As I see it, they don't really have much of a clue about the average person, nor do they have a clue how to reach the nation.
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