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1Falcon1 Wrote: Oct 04, 2012 3:20 PM
right this is the same poll that has obama up by 500 points?
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Don5986 Wrote: Oct 04, 2012 1:42 PM
The 69% of Americans crying are the ones that either pay no taxes or want their fair share dumped on the other guy.
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cambeul41 Wrote: Oct 04, 2012 12:06 PM
Let's see . . . if we subtract from that 69% the 47% that pay no federal taxes so have no valid opinion . . . .
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PMcQB Wrote: Oct 04, 2012 11:46 AM
Yet no one wants to define what "fair share" means. If they put an objective figure on it, once that figure is achieved, they've defeated their own vague argument.
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dick4260 Wrote: Oct 04, 2012 1:56 PM
"Fair share" = tax rates that were paid in the 1950's, America's most prosperous decade.
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What if President Obama were white?
Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo., the chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, said last year, "If (former President) Bill Clinton had been in the White House and had failed to address this problem, we probably would be marching on the White House."
The problem to which Cleaver refers is black unemployment. At the beginning of the Obama administration, 12.7 percent of black adults seeking work were unemployed. Black unemployment is now 14.1 percent. Black teenage unemployment at the beginning of the Obama administration was 35.2 percent. Black teenage unemployment is now 37.9 percent.
Last month, Cleaver...
Black America -- What If Obama Were White?