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re: Let them eat cake?

TB — 5/5/2008 7:05:56 AM (archived)

The statistics speak for themselves.

I'm sorry for all the politicos who look in the mirror and want desperately to see FDR looking back, and I'm sorry for all the Democratic media who have been hoping for the Worst Economy Since Hoover before November, but the vast majority of people in this country are still doing pretty good, even now. Hell, we're still above the zero line in economic growth, and that surprised even me.

I don't think that someone who went to college and pretty much never left has much to say about hard physical work or elitism.

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An unsettling trend with McCain - TB - 5/1/2008 5:18:29 PM
- And in in Gas Tax Holiday, which is monumentally stupid whether by JMcC or HRC (n/t) - Tony - 5/1/2008 7:28:00 PM
  - Gas tax holiday compromise - ER - 5/6/2008 5:42:56 PM
    - Not only that... - Mary Anne - 5/8/2008 1:31:33 AM
    - Not a bad idea. - TB - 5/6/2008 7:51:38 PM
  - Amen. - Mary Anne - 5/4/2008 4:28:35 PM
    - Gas tax - Buck Galaxy - 5/6/2008 6:47:37 AM
      - The dirt poor won't see a penny. - Mary Anne - 5/8/2008 1:31:09 AM
  - Agreed. - Yeti - 5/4/2008 5:49:50 AM
- McCain's a populist instead of a independent thinker? - Tony - 5/1/2008 7:26:38 PM
  - He also believes in creationism - Socrates II - 5/2/2008 4:03:28 PM
    - How many of these guys are there? - ER - 5/3/2008 4:22:00 PM
      - Creationism as a lost opportunity - FrankC - 5/3/2008 10:03:14 PM
        
        Satisfying the atheist - azstrummer - 5/5/2008 9:44:07 PM
        
        So where has this "Inquisition #2" been? - Lee - 5/6/2008 3:46:29 AM
        
        No Lee - azstrummer - 5/6/2008 3:29:17 PM
        
        I ask a question, you throw out names...and I'm a troll. - Lee - 5/7/2008 12:44:40 AM
        
        God as a lost opportunity - Yeti - 5/4/2008 5:28:49 AM
        
        Well said. - ER - 5/4/2008 11:38:10 AM
        
        re: Creationism as a lost opportunity - ER - 5/3/2008 10:14:33 PM
        
        Control - TB - 5/3/2008 10:56:13 PM
        
        Maybe not the worst... - ER - 5/4/2008 2:39:08 AM
        
        Probably - FrankC - 5/4/2008 1:07:43 AM
      - Polls - TB - 5/3/2008 5:58:00 PM
        
        "How much of our biology, geology and astronomy is ACTUALLY being influenced by this?" - ER - 5/3/2008 8:23:57 PM
        
        Funny, ain't it....... - publius - 5/6/2008 11:06:56 PM
        
        re: "How much of our biology, geology and astronomy is ACTUALLY being influenced by this?" - TB - 5/3/2008 9:30:01 PM
        
        Oh for Darwins' sake... - Jody - 5/6/2008 7:50:39 PM
        
        The "equal time" rules are for politics, not science. - Mary Anne - 5/8/2008 2:21:27 AM
        
        One small point... - TB - 5/6/2008 8:10:19 PM
        
        If schools weren't run by the government, not everyone would go to school. - ER - 5/3/2008 10:05:54 PM
        
        That's what the government keeps telling us. (n/t) - TB - 5/3/2008 11:02:41 PM
        
        All right, how about this? - Mary Anne - 5/4/2008 3:57:58 PM
        
        re: how about this? - TB - 5/4/2008 5:49:19 PM
        
        Always goes back to vouchers - azstrummer - 5/5/2008 10:31:16 PM
        
        re: Always goes back to vouchers - TB - 5/5/2008 11:38:14 PM
        
        It would be a lot more honest if they just called vouchers what they really are, "subsidies". - ER - 5/6/2008 1:20:31 AM
        
        I honestly have no idea what you're talking about. - TB - 5/6/2008 3:15:50 AM
        
        Don't be coy, TB. - ER - 5/6/2008 3:41:49 AM
        
        You make it hard to be polite sometimes. - TB - 5/6/2008 4:24:58 AM
        
        Well, try this. - ER - 5/6/2008 10:49:11 AM
        
        re: Well, try this. - TB - 5/6/2008 5:59:37 PM
        
        I have no trouble with wealth being redistributed down. - ER - 5/6/2008 6:14:09 PM
        
        re: wealth being redistributed down. - TB - 5/6/2008 8:24:13 PM
        
        Redistributing wealth upward - Mary Anne - 5/8/2008 2:41:46 AM
        
        When I was growing up... - TB - 5/8/2008 3:20:25 AM
        
        "redistributing wealth from people who don't have wealth is not easy to do." - ER - 5/6/2008 10:02:02 PM
        
        Let me tell you about home school. - Mary Anne - 5/4/2008 7:36:36 PM
        
        re: Let me tell you about home school. - TB - 5/4/2008 8:01:11 PM
        
        True, but last time I looked... - Mary Anne - 5/4/2008 9:29:02 PM
        
        Vouchers are a government subsidy for church schools... - ER - 5/4/2008 6:46:01 PM
        
        Entitlement - TB - 5/4/2008 8:08:29 PM
        
        In answer to your question. - ER - 5/4/2008 9:41:46 PM
        
        re: In answer to your question. - TB - 5/5/2008 1:40:38 AM
        
        You never answered any of my questions. - ER - 5/5/2008 2:41:11 AM
        
        Quiet desperation - TB - 5/5/2008 4:10:18 AM
        
        re: Quiet desperation - ER - 5/5/2008 12:32:18 PM
        
        Let's talk about desperation and the unaddressed cause. - SDAI-Tech1 - 5/6/2008 11:00:45 PM
        
        Propaganda - TB - 5/5/2008 6:12:05 PM
        
        Mountain View - Robert - 5/5/2008 6:05:41 PM
        
        re: Mountain View - TB - 5/5/2008 6:59:26 PM
        
        Let them eat cake? - Yeti - 5/5/2008 5:54:17 AM
        
        re: Let them eat cake? - TB - 5/5/2008 7:05:56 AM
        
        re: Let them eat cake? - Yeti - 5/5/2008 3:53:13 PM
    - So does Nancy Pelosi - TB - 5/2/2008 9:09:20 PM

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