Congressional Democrats Bankrupted the Nation

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Here's How your boy plans to pay for part of his health plan...

Senators slam plan for wounded vets to use private insurance

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki confirmed Tuesday that the Obama administration is considering a controversial plan to make veterans pay for treatment of service-related injuries with private insurance.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/...nce/index.html

I'm speechless.

[vegasmike]

All I can is this. Take a look at the top tem cities with respect to uemployment and the last time those cities had a Republican mayor. I'll dig it up and post it if I can still find it.

[vegasmike]

OK - That didn't take too long, but it was poverty, not unemployment, my mistake, but it still doesn't lessen the impact.


Interesting information on Poverty in the Cities.



City, State, % of People Below the Poverty Level

1. Detroit , MI
32.5%

2. Buffalo , NY
29.9%

3. Cincinnati , OH
27.8%

4. Cleveland , OH
27.0%

5. Miami , FL
26.9%

5. St. Louis , MO
26.8%

7. El Paso , TX
26.4%

8. Milwaukee , WI
26.2%

9. Philadelphia , PA
25.1%

10. Newark , NJ
24.2%


U.S. Census Bureau, 2006 American Community Survey, August 2007


What do the top ten cities (over 250,000) with the highest poverty rate all have in common?


Detroit, MI (1st on the poverty rate list) hasn't elected a Republican mayor since 1961;

Buffalo, NY (2nd) hasn't elected one since 1954;

Cincinnati , OH (3rd)...since 1984;

Cleveland , OH (4 th)...since 1989;

Miami , FL (5th) has never had a Republican mayor;

St. Louis , MO (6th)....since 1949;

El Paso , TX (7th) has never had a Republican mayor;

Milwaukee , WI (8th)...since 1908;

Philadelphia , PA (9th)...since 1952;

Newark , NJ (10th)...since 1907.

Einstein once said, 'The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results..'

It is the poor who habitually elect Democrats---yet they are still poor...

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You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.

You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.

You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.

You cannot build character and courage by taking away peoples initiative and independence.

You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.

Abraham Lincoln

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Vegasmike,
In 2003 8 out of 10 states with the highest levels of poverty all had GOP governors currently serving, or finishing up their term.

1 Louisiana GOP
2 Mississippi GOP
3 New Mexico GOP
4 West Virginia DNC
5 Kentucky DNC
6 Alabama GOP
7 Texas GOP
8 Oklahoma GOP
9 Arkansas GOP
10 Arizona GOP

The next 15 states with the highest levels had 8 GOP governors to 7 DNC - statistically it is close enough to 50-50 to call it that.

The 10 states with the lowest poverty levels had 3 GOP governors to the DNCs 6. And again - all were either currently serving or finishing their term in 2003.

41 Vermont DNC
42 Wyoming GOP
43 Massachusetts GOP
44 Virginia DNC
45 Delaware DNC
46 New Jersey DNC
47 Maryland DNC
48 Connecticut GOP
49 Minnesota Independent
50 New Hampshire DNC

It is also interesting to note that wealth redistribution is happening on a state level - my state (MA) gets back about 82 cents for every dollar we send to the IRS. Pretty much all the 'red states' take more than they pay in. Nevada is a big exception to this - they are the only solid red state in a big group of blue states at the top of the payer states (49th - just behind New Jersey on the list of payer states).

I'm guessing that you are from Nevada - kinda sucks that we keep having to pay for those slacker states doesn't it?

Oh, and the quote you listed is not Lincoln, though that does not change the fact that it is a good one. It was some pastor but I forget his name.

Steve