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Republican politicians and the poor and middle class.

Posted: Feb 22, 2015

I read this this morning, posted on a chat site. Author unknown.

Here is how the typical press interview with your average GOP Politician goes.

Reporter: "Governor (or whatever), what concerns you about America today?

GOP Politician: "I am very concerned about the plight of the poor and middle class in America today."

Reporter: "So you support two years of free community college for poor and middle class students?"

GOP Politician: "Oh no!"

Reporter: "Oh, do you support raising the minimum wage to help the working poor work their way out of poverty?"

GOP Politician: "Absolutely not!"

Reporter: "Ok, do you support the expansion of Medicare to help the lower middle class get access to a decent level of healthcare?"

GOP Politician: "Well now you're just talking communism!"

Reporter: "Well then how do you propose changing the situation for the poor and middle class?"

GOP Politician: "Well I think we need to give the top 1% and corporations more tax breaks. We should also do away with the minimum wage, collective bargaining and unions. Then we need to privatize every government function we can, prisons, police, Social Security... everything. As well we need to get rid of the EPA, the National Labor Relations Board, The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and deregulate the entire private sector. We need to defund Planned Parenthood and outlaw abortion. We need to outlaw same sex marriage. And finally we need to start a few wars with various Muslim countries."

Reporter: "How does all that help middle class and poor Americans?"

GOP Politician: "Who?"

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No truth to this at all - nothing but an opinion piece - no fact, and an attempt to incite - Same old, Same

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Which of the responses is untrue? nm - Wake up people!

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Except, I would have said - sm

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at the end when going to war, "How does this affect the poor and middle class."

Answer: Well, it will give them all jobs in the military. They can go "die for their country." (Uh, but don't come back and except any help, because we don't support that either)

All of them - nm

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We know we've reached the bottom of the barrel when - sm

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we have to read posts by unknown authors from unknown chat boards. LOL

Proof of liberal desperation. - SM

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Oh, boy, I needed a laugh!!!!!

Yep - that's all the Flibs have left. Without the snark - and false opinion posts as fact, they

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they got nothing. Obama totaly useless and complete failure in everything he touches. Base support for Obama is down to a percentage of nothing but hard-core socialist Libs without a brain in the head.

I think we should post a response of the Dems wanting to continue with Jim Crow Laws, Dems support of the KKK, the Dems support of keeping blacks poor, the list goes on.

Why is it only labelled "snark" and "false opinion" if it disagrees with Cons? - nm

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Maybe it's me, but I think the endless personal attacks and whining by Cons about President Obama and his percentage of base support have grown tiresome. I'm referring here specifically to the making of the ridiculous 47% comments by Cons like Romney and questioning the president's love of his country by Cons like Rudy, which I believe are pointless. It's as if the conservative party is unaware that President Obama is no longer an eligible candidate. The original post is about conservative views of the poor and the middle class, yet the sentiments addressed on that post that conservatives seem to hold a level of disdain for them and dismiss their views summarily is very real and is echoed on this board daily.

Attacking the character and level of intelligence of the very voters a party will need in order to achieve higher office seems an odd political strategy, but they appear to be deeply committed to it.

Thanks, Conservatives!

I guess you haven't been reading the board lately - The left are saying the same thing

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And I'm tired of the constant whining by the libs about the conservatives here.

This is a political board and people can say anything they want and their opinions about Obama. We heard the same thing when Bush was in office. The difference is we didn't whine about it.

Why are you pointing out specific posters. That is not allowed here the moderator said. If you don't like what a poster writes then don't read it.

Your last paragraph of attacking the character and level of intelligence of the voters is exactly what the liberals have been doing here.

Nuff said.

Of course you can say anything you want on the political board - sm

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As can we all, and others are equally free to comment on those posts. I was not questioning anyone's right to post as they please, just voicing my opinion on the points in the post I responded to. I am not pointing out specific posters by merely responding to a post, just making my opinions about the conservative party views that I see echoed here on the board and my opinion that it does not serve their party well to attack their political opponents as if they are somehow lesser or lazy Americans labelled the "47 percent" or that they do not hold the same level of love for their country. Conservatives should not view my critique of their party's political strategy of attacking President Obama personally (such as Rudy and his ilk are doing) or attacking liberal voters personally and lumping them into percentages (such as Romney and his ilk are doing), as somehow an attack on them personally when it's merely my opinion of Republican and Tea Party strategy.

Although I'm not sure how I could determine whether or not I liked certain board posts unless I did, in fact, read them first, you've got some good advice in there about not reading posts you don't like and not singling out posters. I hope you feel those rules apply equally to yourself and all other posters here regardless of party affiliation.

Someone made that up as a weak attempt at humor - Not one shred of truth to it

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But hey, thanks for bringing the propaganda to the board.

Not one shred of truth? - sm

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Convince us that conservatives support two years of free community college for poor and middle class students.

Convince us that conservatives support raising the minimum wage to help the working poor work their way out of poverty.

Convince us that conservatives support the expansion of Medicare to help the lower middle class get access to a decent level of healthcare.

We'll wait.

That's right, not one shred of truth - Also...

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I'm not going to answer your post.

Yeah and keep waiting.

sf

I feel like I am in the Twilight Zone! nm - Rod Serling

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I know. So do I - Person you replied to (nm)

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They cannot do one ounce of research and everyone - with a different POV has to "convince them

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what a pathetic bunch of inept researchers. If they bothered to do their own homework, they would realize that is NOT what conservatives stand for. Accountability for the bogus status is sorely lacking.

Grabbing at straws now? A CHAT SITE? - Truthhurts

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That's not exactly a reliable "opinion" especially the "author unknown" baloney. It's just a liberal/progressive's bunch of crap they made up...

Unless you have a VERIFIABLE LINK to the site where this "author unknown" comments came from (IOW the news source), it is just garbage to be kicked to the curb. I could just as well copy your post and change the words to Democrats or liberals and post it to a chat site.

Lies seem to be the name of the game over the years and every year, they get worse.

Regardless of where it came from, it's still someone's political opinion. - sm

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Attacking the source of the opinion doesn't change the sentiments addressed in the opinion.

I find it particularly interesting that conservatives who've posted their opposition to raising the minimum wage on this board many times are now crying foul regarding an opinion piece that suggests that conservatives are in opposition to raising the minimum wage.

Then why do liberals attack conservatives when we put a source - that is not main stream media

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Liberals don't give the same considerations to conservatives. If we put something from Before Its News or Fox or anything else giving an opinion we are bashed and trashed for putting up garbage, but yet if it's a liberals opinion piece that is okay.

Quite a double standard.

Not so, Raw Story and Mediate take a bash - too--I look for more MSM

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and if I can't find it, I look at the idea and decide whether I think it is possibly just a fact, or an interesting enough tangent and post it anyway. Sometimes, I just hold and don't mention it until it becomes Main Stream or it dies.

So, the political board is only for substantiated - political opinion of another source?

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And, as for this being propaganda, that happens all of the time, when talking about socialism, communism, crackhead, et cetera, et cetera. It is all propaganda against the Democratic party and President Obama. But, I suppose THAT kind of propaganda is okay.

Everyone: Research those crackhead comments, the socialism comments, and please define those words before you use them, and then maybe the PROPAGANDA will go away, both sides.

I didn't know this was a board exclusively for regurgitating the news source, and then the restriction of criticizing reliability of news sources, makes it ludicrous.

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