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To be very blunt, your story and the point you make irritates me (an implicit fallacy of composition), and is exactly the reason the definition of poverty needs to be changed in the U.S. 1 in 7 Americans are poor by our definition. Here is a heart-wrenching example of someone who is poor (happens to be the poorest person in America). Therefore, we need to do more for all people classified as "poor" by our definition, including the ones that happen to be well off.

60% of the 1 in 7 "poor" people are paying for cable or satellite t.v. each month. I'm sorry, but if you "can't afford" basic necessities like food but you can afford pay for cable each month, you shouldn't be receiving food stamps.

Type three facts about yourself, two have to be true, one is a lie. The game is to guess the lie of the person above you, and to trick the people posting below you. Feel free to share as much or as little about yourself as you want, go ahead and guess on as many unanswered posts as you want. If you do intend to post about yourself, please indicate the answer to your previous post. About me: 1. I sleep on the floor instead of in a bed. 2. I'm the third of seven children. 3. My family lives below the poverty line. EDIT: 3 is the lie.

72% of all businesses in America are sole proprietorships, not corporations. Raising personal income taxes directly affects these businesses, as its cutting directly into their bottom line.

Do you or any of your leftist buddies have any idea how taxes on a sole proprietorship works? If you did, you'd understand why $250,000 a year isn't rich, and why raising their taxes will affect 72% of all businesses in the U.S. http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2010/tables/10s0728.pdf Yet Magekillr never assumed all $250k earners were small business owners. Now, be careful here Sees. Small businesses do not need tax increases, but don't get small business confused with multi-million dollar corporations. They're the ones who really need to be regulated, since, taxing them higher would only [bleep] over the low-wage employees purposely. MOST people in that category ARE small business owners. I start my own business by making and selling widgets. I value widgets at $5,000 each, and in a year I make 50 widgets. If I sell none of those 50 widgets and they sit in my warehouse at the end of the year, I'm still taxed at the $250,000 per year rate because my inventory value changed by that much, even if I don't have a dollar to my name.

Do you or any of your leftist buddies have any idea how taxes on a sole proprietorship works? If you did, you'd understand why $250,000 a year isn't rich, and why raising their taxes will affect 72% of all businesses in the U.S. http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2010/tables/10s0728.pdf

In my opinion, if you can afford cable tv, you should not be considered "poor". But you know, maybe I'm just out of touch with the rest of the world.

You should read the link I posted... maybe then you won't feel so bad.

http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2011/07/what-is-poverty In other news, 99% of America has less money than 1% of America. The Census Bureau seriously needs to rethink their definition.

I think the government is too big when you have Police officers shutting down children's lemonade stands when they don't have the proper paperwork. I also think the government is too big when they Tell you what you can and can't have at a restaurant, and they tell you which lightbulbs you can and cannot buy. I also think it's a shame when the banks are so tied to the government that they can't function without it. Anyhow, if the Republicans decide that the federal government must start using a balanced budget, all they have to do is nothing.

Saw that on Drudge. That's a pretty big coincidence.

I've been ~300k strength xp from 99 for the past few months. Haven't wanted to train my account since I have members on another. Will probably get strength from dungeoneering though.

If gun ownership wasn't protected by the constitution, you'd better believe that guns would have been outlawed by now. Forcing politicians to adhere to a constitution prevents them from changing laws all willy-nilly, especially in a political climate as chaotic as this one. The Constitution is a "living document," which means that it is meant to be modified through the ways it set up. The founding fathers were smart enough to know that the times change, so a constitution must change as well. The Constitution is meant to change. If the Constitution was set in stone, and one of the provisions was that slaves were to account as 3/5ths of a person, it would make sense that people would ignore that part, and it would make sense that they might ignore other parts as well. Since we're able to change the Constitution, it makes all the more sense that we must adhere to it.

The only thing uniting Tea Party members is that they believe they're "Taxed Enough Already." For most other policy or social issues, there is no consensus. The GOP lends itself better to the Tea Party than the Democrats because the Democrats want more wealth redistribution, which starts with more taxes. There are some things about the establishment GOP that the Tea Party despises, including crony capitalism and a willingness to put into office liberal RINOs. Besides all of that, the Tea Party really is just the name of conservatives and libertarians that want smaller government and an adherence to the US Constitution, which is why Ron Paul really is a member of the Tea Party. Isn't one of the 15 Tea Party founding principles that "Gun ownership is sacred"? I think I read that somewhere and assumed that the Tea Party were a bunch of loons. Then I saw Ron Paul, and I thought maybe they weren't. Then Michele Bachmann came on the scene, and I realised that a majority of them must be. She is an utter turd, no two ways about it. You know, because "gun ownership" has nothing to do with the Constitution, which includes our 2nd Amendment...

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Never in the Church's history did it teach murder was "right". If your point is that Catholics are hypocrites, my answer is "duh." The Church teaches to be like Christ; whenever someone professes and teaches the Catholic faith sins they've effectively done what they said not to do. Anyhow, I suggest you create a new thread, "Bash Catholicism Here," so at least I know which thread to avoid instead of soiling this one.

The only thing uniting Tea Party members is that they believe they're "Taxed Enough Already." For most other policy or social issues, there is no consensus. The GOP lends itself better to the Tea Party than the Democrats because the Democrats want more wealth redistribution, which starts with more taxes. There are some things about the establishment GOP that the Tea Party despises, including crony capitalism and a willingness to put into office liberal RINOs. Besides all of that, the Tea Party really is just the name of conservatives and libertarians that want smaller government and an adherence to the US Constitution, which is why Ron Paul really is a member of the Tea Party.

You know that Ron Paul is nick-named the "Father of the Tea Party" ?

You seem to have missed when MMG removed certain intrusive advertising in the F2P game - or how a skill like agility lost its use in F2P. Not to mention how F2P could once solve P2P-based puzzle rooms in Daemonheim. Though I think they still can with one particular room. It's a bad thing for a games company to be hypocritical. I want my gnomecopters back!

High five, everyone.

I think libertarians align more closely with the TEA party, so that's what I put. I can't stand W.'s "compassionate conservatism", nor can I stand crony capitalism. Shrink the government please.

Been spending most of my time on my nub account, sqelt, in members. I have another 90 day card when this one is used up, will probably not get members after that. Also, for the life of me I don't understand why members complain so much about herb. You can train it faster than f2p prayer, and still turn a profit by cleaning herbs.

I don't care to the point of becoming irritated at the sensationalism of the media. Worse stuff happens all the time to other children, and why some stories are more headlined than others beats me.