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Elizabeth Warren On Class Warfare: ‘There Is Nobody in This Country Who Got Rich On His Own’

Elizabeth Warren On Class Warfare: There Is Nobody in This Country Who Got Rich On His Own

Former White House financial reform adviser Elizabeth Warren, who is now seeking to challenge Republican Senator Scott Brown in Massachusetts, is definitely not shy in voicing her views on class warfare — or, according to Warren, the lack thereof.

In a recent appearance captured on video, Warren, who is perhaps best known for helping to launch the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, stated boldly that there is no such thing as class warfare and that there is “nobody in this country who got rich on his own.”

Below is a transcript of Warren’s remarks:

“I hear all this, you know, ‘Well, this is class warfare, this is whatever. No. There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own — nobody.

“You built a factory out there? Good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police-forces and fire-forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn’t have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory — and hire someone to protect against this — because of the work the rest of us did.

“Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific, or a great idea. God bless — keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is, you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along.”

These statements certainly seem to keep in line with President Barack Obama’s reasons for proposing tax increases on America’s high income earners — especially given his recent assertion that he wears the charge of engaging in class warfare as a “badge of courage.”

(h/t: TPM)

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  • Kylestarr
    Posted on September 21, 2011 at 6:29pm

    She is as bad about talking about nothing as Moore is. Neither one of them ever listen to what they say for if they did both would realized how stupid they sound.

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    • Viet Vet
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 7:54pm

      Something we’ve been shouting from the rooftops for 15 years is finally, finally being carried now by the AP. The fact that the rich are paying more than their fair share of taxes. The information has been out there all these years, but until now has been covered up and ignored by the leftist media.

      http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44592106/ns/business-us_business/

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    • decendentof56
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 8:00pm

      Lesb packing hollow points….
      Correct! Thank you. She is such a Marxist idiot, she just made the case that there is, indeed, class warfare. Everyone knows the people who create jobs, and therefore employ the people who make the economic engine turn, are paying more than their fair share in taxes.
      Lets face it, she is an equal-results (Marxist) advocate.
      Remember the failed communes of the 60′s? Why did they fail? Because the ones who worked had to support their utopia-loving comrades who did not.

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    • decendentof56
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 8:06pm

      Also, let us Liz of all the little 4 year olds who are given free breakfasts, lunches, all the teachers hired to ‘teach’ them, all the supplies for their use, the costs of the pre-K addition to the school, and the maintenance costs.
      They (the kids or the building) didn’t get there on its own.

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    • Professional Infidel
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 8:08pm

      Perfect!

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    • The10thAmendment
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 8:20pm

      @ Exrepublisheep
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 7:48pm

      @10thamendment. And if Glenn Beck is the “Patriot” who waters the tree? Then maybe Bachman? Lots of fertilizer there!
      ———————————————————————————————————————————————-
      I’m thinking more along the lines of those trying to destroy the Republic. The same sheep of the King who are too lazy, too slovenly, and too stupid to stand on their own feet and do for themselves. People like you, and every other worthless liberal aka progressive aka communist begging for a government to be their pimp.

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    • Pointman308
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 8:25pm

      These people have been so indonctrinated by their own ideology, pride, and false sense of achievment that they cannot see the truth anymore. They are incapable of discerning evil especially when it proceeds forth from their own mouths.

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    • MontanaRob
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 8:38pm

      I‘m pretty sure that photo on top is of her describing the size of her husband’s, uhhhh…wive’s, uhhhh…whatever’s, uhhh…manhoo…uhhh, strap-….uhhh, oh, you know what I’m saying! It explains a lot, I think.

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    • banjarmon
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 8:39pm

      The DINGBAT is CRAZY!!!

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    • SHOWMESTATEGUY
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 8:49pm

      MONTANAROB—–

      You sure she is married to a man?

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    • jzs
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 8:52pm

      She totally missed the point. Those roads she is talking about? The richest pay far more for those roads in front of your house than you do (maybe not Buffet but a lot do). And the fire department and police department? Yep the rich pay more for those services than you. Does she not understand that? Hello! And the schools your children go to, and the parks and the libraries – the rich pay more than you while you have the same access and enjoy the same benefits. I could go on, but basically the richest pay a lot more for all the benefits and protections you benefit from.

      I get a little tired of you RINO Marxists happily being the recipients of the distribution of wealth to YOU! If you weren‘t so lazy you’d go out there and get a real job, or start a business that would bring in millions, or indeed billions. You can’t you say? Too hard? You sound just like the people getting food stamps that you abhor and feel so superior to. You’re happy to not pay your fair share, but you whine like babies at the thought that your taxes might benefit someone else, while you sit in your chair doing nothing to create jobs. At heart, you are Marxists.

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    • frodis
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 9:11pm

      I just wanna puke. What a joke.

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    • Marci
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 9:28pm

      “But part of the underlying social contract is, you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along.”….

      GET A GRIP WOMAN. The factory builder paid the same taxes, were they tax free on the way to shipping those goods? NOPE. Another class warfare heifer who has decided that those who put the money in and take the risk owe someone else a large portion of it. She frames this as if those people did not pay the exact same taxes. Problem is, she is appealing to the lowest common denominator who doesn’t know the difference. (SEIU/ACORN)

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    • Lord_Frostwind
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 9:35pm

      Now if only they would give us a figure on what exactly the “fair share” is. But in the end, all they ever want is more and more of what others produce.

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    • JohnHW
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 9:59pm

      That building that that rich person built. Did you know that when most of those buildings were built, the Democrats used a zoning law to REQUIRE him/her to build roads to that building – in some cases, widing the streets leading to that new road – or build a cloverleaf so the workers could easely enter/exit the interstate. The police – now we’re talking – I was waiting for an interview for a new division with a large software company, who had built many many buildings, when a man came back in and was complaining because he didn’t get the job and began threatening the employees (plus me and a couple of other people waiting) with a knife. The police were called. I ended up sitting on this guy for over a half hour before an officer showed up. (He hadn’t been trained to use a knife and one hit with my knuckles resulted in him not being able to hold much of anything in that hand.)

      This lib has got to learn – they work for the people, not the other way around. This female should never work for the government again. Unless it is on a ranch in Nevada.

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    • tangobuilder
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 10:02pm

      If this idiot woman is correct and it’s that easy, then we should easily have about a million new companies tomorrow. How many has she started?

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    • joseph mitch nixon
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 10:07pm

      this is what a virus of communism can do to a person , this is why the natzy use to shoot on the spot the comisars and communist leaders .
      she is so stupid , this country is so great because was a small gov . less tax . less regulation and a great respect for our great constitution
      this people are the cancer of our society and are a lot of them .

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    • Edct
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 10:11pm

      Lying liberal bit*h, everyone who starts a business or risks their money in Capitolism can easily loose their money and the f….ing gov will not pay them back for it…that is why business owners sometimes make more money than the employees. She is just another communist or marxist trying to justify raising our taxes to enslave us……we are becoming nothing but slaves to the political whores in Washington and we must stop it and take back our country and throw the illegal imposter in our White House out of office. Go Tea Party.

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    • Pujols
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 10:13pm

      What a Moron. I guess Oprah should give all that money back to who gave it to Her or just spread it around Chicago to the poor and hungry aka: ‘ The Drunks and Dopers.’ BUMBS!

      Buffet, Gates and Soros? Two are so old what do they beed more than 100k for?
      GET THEM TO GIVE THEIRS UP FIRST BETH, YOU HACKTERD.

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    • My Two Cents
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 10:22pm

      “You didn’t have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory — and hire someone to protect against this — because of the work the rest of us did.”

      We really didn’t have to worry until 2009 but now, with a President who bemoans the fact that we have three branches of government and a constitution, it is anyones guess. As for the rest of this wing-nut’s rant, she failed to mention that the rich guy with the factory paid far more in taxes than his employees who drove on the same roads to get to WORK.

      Come on Massachusetts, you have to be smarter than this.

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    • Bo Digitally
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 10:25pm

      So are you saying you didn’t vote for George Bush?

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    • MIBUGNU2
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 10:26pm

      Are we talking about Pelosi and her insider cronies ???
      Her net worth increased 64% last year..Being on the
      inside and push the right Laws, really help’s..HUH ???

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    • Pujols
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 10:26pm

      Is She holding up Her fingers to show us the size of Her Husbands Weiner?

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    • MIBUGNU2
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 10:31pm

      Elizabeth Warren,or Republican Senator Scott Brown..
      Massachusetts, will be losing out either way…Sorry !!

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    • SlimnRanger
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 10:32pm

      I do hope Elizabeth Warren stays in MA.,us Okies don’t want here back here,she is in the same mind frame as Obama, Maxine Watters, and the like,do you hear me Elizabeth Oklahoma does not want you back

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    • Anamah
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 10:35pm

      Is amazing to me how sick this woman is and how many confused resentful as her are working against American spirit to destroy our free market system and suffocate individuals inititive to pursuit of happiness. This administration, and the whole Democratic Party has became Progressive Maoists willing to stop our exceptional country!!! How this can be???

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    • Rightsofman
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 10:53pm

      Gosh, when she puts it THAT way… I mean if i got an idea, sold it to investors built my factory, employed workers and shipped my goods to market over roads, paid my taxes , paid my corporate taxes and….and I’m not a good person and owe someone more of my earnings, how much? I don’t know. He’s on 2nd so whose on 1st? Right.

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    • Mil Mom
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 11:53pm

      Just some more (In different words) of the Clinton era pap about “giving something back”. Remember all the movie stars and ball players out there who were advocating that they won life‘s lottery now it’s up to them to give something back for the next guy.
      In Chicago it would be considered the “protection” racket. “Yeah, you want to make some money, sure, but you need to pay us a little to make sure nothing bad happens to you.”

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on September 22, 2011 at 12:25am

      Hey JZS,

      I read your post, then I scrutinized it a second time.

      All I can muster up is a “shrug”

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    • thepatriotdave
      Posted on September 22, 2011 at 12:50am

      This woman is F-n dangerous. I hope to God that she never pro-creates.

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    • 1bambam
      Posted on September 22, 2011 at 12:53am

      She is HoT ,,,,Her Janet Reno and I …..dream come true

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    • bookofdaniel
      Posted on September 22, 2011 at 1:04am

      Let’s continue her logic. So the roads, schools, police and firemen that Business uses come from us all (Government). What she doesn‘t seem to understand is that government has no money of it’s own. The money government has comes from businesses and the people businesses employ in the form of taxes.
      These folks must be defeated once and for all. They are socialist. That’s fine but not here in the USA. That system has been proven to be a complete fail.
      Conservatives must do a better job at making the case for Capitalism.

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    • bookofdaniel
      Posted on September 22, 2011 at 1:21am

      @Lord_Frostwind
      I’ve figured out what liberals mean by “fair share”. What they mean is; A person making a hundred dollars and after taxes he has 75.00 dollars left. They want the person who makes a thousand dollars to only have 75.00 dollars left too. That’s what they mean by fair share. Get it? Damn I’m brilliant!

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    • ChiefGeorge
      Posted on September 22, 2011 at 1:43am

      Those taxes are also mainly and foremost for the things we all need not just the company down the road who hires the locals and oh by the way does pay taxes. They got rich yes due to what they brought to the table. Government did its job to provide a stable country in which to make said monies but to turn around and say they owe even more money for this is truly un-American. Go fly in the lake lady.

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    • Ruler4You
      Posted on September 22, 2011 at 1:56am

      It’s hard to imagine an idiot like this actually making to the top levels of government. That truly proves that anyone CAN do anything if they set their mind to it. But the precept that because you exist in society you owe the rest of society is absolutely shocking. I guess that means that the idiots that suckle the teat of society‘s largess are also the product of everyone’s “effort.” So where does that leave a statement like that (‘There Is Nobody in This Country Who Got Rich On His Own’)?

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    • gibby45
      Posted on September 22, 2011 at 2:25am

      Like Rodney in Back to School….you left a bunch of stuff out. First you have to pay off the Alderman and then the dockworkers and the Teamsters…I don‘t know if you’ve ever dealt with the Teamsters but they aren’t a nice bunch of guys..something to that effect. Ironically Dangerfield’s comments are about the people that pay the Democrats to stay in power. Lady you are lost.

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    • Salamander
      Posted on September 22, 2011 at 2:41am

      Actually, I believe that THEY believe their crap! They have honed their arguments for so long, unchallenged, that they actually believe the delusion! If they got out in the real world, they wouldn’t have time to conjure up such idiotic notions! I wonder if she ever had a Lemonade Stand, or delivered newspapers? And, selling candy bars to get a grade in school is NOT a valued lesson learned! What I’d like to know is how we, as a country, got to be so dysfunctional? None of us are blameless, whether the progressive la-di-dahs, the conservative ‘almighty-buck‘ers’ or what! Frankly, Chainsaw Al is just as culpable as Michael Moore, and WE ALL HAVE PLAYED OUR PART! Shame on US! Now, let’s FIX IT!!!

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    • loriann12
      Posted on September 22, 2011 at 6:49am

      @jzs

      Wow, we agree on something. It‘s like I’ve said before, rich conservatives help other people get to where they are, rich liberals kick the ladder out (with regulations, taxing, whatever) so no one else can get to where they are.

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    • MR_ANDERSON
      Posted on September 22, 2011 at 7:12am

      Elizabeth Warren gave the WEATHER UNDERGROUND SALUTE @ 0:39 in that video!!!

      That is the truth, and this is the Blaze.

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    • smithclar3nc3
      Posted on September 22, 2011 at 7:20am

      She is an idiot but she is correct without knowing it.
      No one has gotten rich on their own fact is most people who are rich had a great idea,started a business,purchased equipment,material and buildings made by other people,hired people,and paid larger amount of taxes,licensing fee,and social security which they can’t collect.
      So basicly most rich people are also casrrying employees,manufacturers,builders,the U.S.Government, and social security recipients with them.

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    • smithclar3nc3
      Posted on September 22, 2011 at 7:22am

      And if 47% of people pay no taxes and use the educations,transportation,welfare,social security,and othe entitlement programs contribute NOTHIING.

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    • demint.disciple
      Posted on September 22, 2011 at 7:50am

      WOW !! She looks unstable and the sad part is look at all the morons that clap for noting but babble from a mentally instable person..

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    • demint.disciple
      Posted on September 22, 2011 at 7:55am

      @jzs + Elizabeth Warren = wedding bells…

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    • spirit of freedom
      Posted on September 22, 2011 at 8:16am

      to all,
      who in the hell do these idiots think they are? my father in-law grew up dirt poor in minnesota his father abandoned him his mother and sisters when he was 5. to make a long truly American story short, he was gifted with art. at 15 he began custom pinstriping and painting cars in his mothers 1 car garage in the 50′s and became well know in the twin cities area. from there he turned to painting signs for businesses and managed to build that into a multi million dollar int’l company.
      it is now sold and he and my mother in-law are retired and enjoying the time they have left.
      no one gave him a dime he scratched and fought for everybit of his success and did quite well.
      these commie socialist azz holes have no clue!

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    • scrooge
      Posted on September 22, 2011 at 8:18am

      And who will protect us from marauding bands of democrats? Union thugs?

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    • Bum thrower
      Posted on September 22, 2011 at 8:59am

      Yea…like business owners don‘t pay ANY taxes according to this ’statist’ bitch. Won’t fly…we are not that stupid….well some are; She is an endangered species—a WD-40…..White Democrat over 40….

      Vote Democrat, ‘Progressive’, Statist’, socialist…or what ever you want to goby…means poverty and no opportunity for ALL………….

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    • Emrys
      Posted on September 22, 2011 at 9:00am

      She’s sick. The government is OBLIGATED to build roads and bridges, provide police protection. That means the factory owner doesn’t OWE the government a damned thing, other than the taxes required to pay for those services.

      But we know what she really means: the factory owner should pay Much, MUCH more than what it costs to provide those basic governmental services she mentioned. She wants him to pay for daycare for the community, free lunches and breakfasts, foodstamps, shrimp on treadmills, etc. etc. And of course to pay bureaucrats fat salaries to sit there and soak up money while they parcel out small amounts. Talk about your Ponzi schemes!

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    • LadyMecham
      Posted on September 22, 2011 at 9:08am

      So is she the new Mafia in town? According to her, if you have a successful business and want to maintain that business then you have to pay for it, or else. Lady, all your lacking is a mouth full of cotton and a lisp.

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    • Czar Casm
      Posted on September 22, 2011 at 9:37am

      Such is the mind set of a woman whose pay/income/wealth comes from the confiscation of other peoples money through taxes. By getting on the inside, like the Pelosi reference by MIBUGNU2, to confiscate even more.
      Why do you think politicians want to raise taxes? It diverts money from the private sector through the greedy hands of the politicians.
      The worst enemy of a politician is someone making it on his or her own. The politician HAS to have dependents. The politician HAS to have divisions among people, this group against that group. Classes in other words.
      Ask yourself who’s going to get any richer, who’s lot in life will improve when the rich have even more money confiscated from them? Yours or my pay going to go up? Prices are going to come down? Nope. Only people in political power will see that money and distribute it amongst their crony friends and only crumbs will get to the “people” to continue to buy their votes.
      Remember: “socialism is for the people, not the socialists.”
      Politicians HATE your freedom.

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    • Guardog44
      Posted on September 22, 2011 at 9:41am

      Can blonds do simple math? Can you teach a bat the truth?

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    • cgizzy
      Posted on September 22, 2011 at 10:03am

      Why am I always reminded of Atlas Shrugged and The Fountain Head when I hear these kinds of quotes. Both books had the “You don’t own it because someone else before you made it possible” motif, and Isn’t that exactly what Warren is saying? You need to pay more because someone else made it possible for you to do it?

      Does anyone on the left understand that it wasnt someone inventing or paving roads or whatever that allows people to invent and develope better techonology and claim they “created” or got rich on their own. Its the ingenuity and determiniation that creates these things. Every idea every created is useless unless someone has the ingenutity and determination to make it work. People like Warren dont see that, infact, whether they realize it or not, they want to crush those characteristics because of some obsurd belief that everything belongs to everyone.

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    • riverdog1
      Posted on September 22, 2011 at 11:36am

      the link from viet vet: the exact same info has been used the last few days. its wrong. they give the rate of 29% for the rich as ALL taxes paid, personel, state, city, property and give the rate for middle income at 15% as only federal taxes.. i make about 60K and pay 40% for my entire tax burden.

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    • sweathog1948
      Posted on September 22, 2011 at 11:57am

      If she wants to start out putting Bush down she should list all the facts. America had high employment when Bush was in office. The government did not put their hands in the private business sector. If she lists what Bush did she needs to bring it up to date on what Obama has done, which is a lot worse than anything Bush has done. Half a truth is a lie.

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    • Jim in Houston
      Posted on September 22, 2011 at 12:16pm

      Where does OweBlamer dredge up these idiots? Is there anyone in his administration with an IQ greater than single digits?

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    • IntransigentMind
      Posted on September 22, 2011 at 12:46pm

      It’s time to set this straight:
      http://markamerica.com/2011/09/22/the-other-side-of-class-warfare-taking-society-down/

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    • Defends the TRUTH
      Posted on September 22, 2011 at 12:59pm

      I’m so glad that the CRAZIES are talking….let it be known to ALL what they really are thinking!!! Keep it up Lefties…

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    • teaisstronger
      Posted on September 22, 2011 at 1:12pm

      No Government ever build a school, road or airport without working people. Ms Warren is one more example of the Democrat Party mass insanity. What chapter of Marx and Engles is Ms Warren quoting from. Is Harvard now granting college degrees in Stalinist Communism? I hope Warren keeps speaking about her communist theory so everyone hears what Liberalism is all about.

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    • ACLUHater
      Posted on September 22, 2011 at 1:13pm

      Liberals are mentally retarded. They must all be on some serious drugs.

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    • lillymckim
      Posted on September 22, 2011 at 1:58pm

      This lady is a pit bull dressed up to look like Marcia Brady … but she is nothing but a socialist tyrant!

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    • lillymckim
      Posted on September 22, 2011 at 2:01pm

      who does Warren work for?

      I think she needs a pink slip … real bad.

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    • vtxphantom
      Posted on September 22, 2011 at 2:05pm

      This parasite is from Harvard, the college of communism and leftist studies. She is a red herring. Red because she is a marxist and a herring because that is her maiden name. She is a carbon copy of obama. She hates this country. She believes this country has achieved its place in the world on the backs of others. This is why the country is in the shape it is in, and these are the people that should go back under the rock they crawled out from

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    • The Meem
      Posted on September 22, 2011 at 2:56pm

      …” the rich didn’t do it all by themselves.” No, they just worked their asses off, and as they grew, they payed more and more taxes, property taxes, taxes on income, taxes on business property, employee taxes, on inventory and on and on. The taxes they paid helped pay for the road she said others paid for,
      for the schools that educate the people who work, and so on. The people who get money for sitting on their asses are the ones complaining about the rich not paying their fair share.
      This woman is just another bitter, stupid, narrow minded lib.
      For once, I wish someone who claims to be a lib and hates the rich, would be asked what kind of a country they want to live in when there are no rich, no factories, no work, just the government sorting it all out and given it away. Come on. Why don’t they understand that there is no money there until it is taken from the very people they hate.

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    • El Diablo Heff
      Posted on September 22, 2011 at 3:15pm

      How ironic an unwritten social contract. Bout like everything else these bigoted racist people come up with. Unwritten means what is written is what is agreed upon. If you don’t like it you are free to go do it for yourself. I don’t need or want this woman to speak for me. I can speak for myself. An employer offers me to work in exchange for what I agree upon if I don‘t like it I look elsewhere after that I don’t owe a business owner and he doesn’t owe me because an agreement was already reached. Not only that but I am not the person to benefit from a risk the owner has taken unless it is part of the compensation for my work. It is the owner to benefit from the risk not me or my neighbor or the government.just because a politician has to make a promise to get elected rather do be good at their job.what nonsense.

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    • Viet Vet
      Posted on September 22, 2011 at 3:16pm

      riverdog1 posted:

      “the link from viet vet: the exact same info has been used the last few days. its wrong. they give the rate of 29% for the rich as ALL taxes paid, personel, state, city, property and give the rate for middle income at 15% as only federal taxes.”

      LMAO @ riverdog1, someone even more stupid than Warren.

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    • A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
      Posted on September 22, 2011 at 3:55pm

      (Repost)

      Elizabeth Warren said:

      “I hear all this, you know, ‘Well, this is class warfare, this is whatever. No. There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own — nobody.”

      That’s a tautology. It’s functionally equivalent to saying “Nobody is able to trade on his own”.

      And so what, right? You need people to trade with, but you only need to trade with people that actually have something to trade in return; and you don’t need to have a collective mentality in order to trade with people.

      CollectivISM is not necessary for trading something, that is valuable to others, that you have produced; which is how people get wealthy.

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    • CLEttinger
      Posted on September 22, 2011 at 3:58pm

      Social contract? I dont remember signing a social contract with the government or anyone else.

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    • Xkiller
      Posted on September 22, 2011 at 7:35pm

      She’s kidding…right??? Imean how much help did Bill Gates get??? I’m sure some of the “old money” millionaires like the rockafellas and such didn’t do it on their own…right? With people like this idiot in the adminisrtation, no wonder things are so screwed up. Did she even TRY to think before she shot off her mouth?

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    • Okie from Muskogee
      Posted on September 22, 2011 at 7:43pm

      Taxing based on income amount is discrimination. it is the same as taxing based on skin color, based on weight, based on age, or based on religion. It’s wrong to tax someone with $100 dollars more, a higher %, then taxing someone with $10. Government isn’t to decide who it sides with, Government is to treat us equal. 

      Our founders intended for us to be taxed apportioned and uniform. We were to be taxed equally. The PROGRESSIVE Income Tax Amendment voided the Founders apportioned and uniform and gave Government the power to tax however they want. 

      Someone needs to ask this woman and president Zero what the difference is in taxing by amount made and weight or skin color? We need to stand unified demanding we all are treated equal. Call out the discrimination. Stand in truth! 

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    • Viet Vet
      Posted on September 22, 2011 at 7:58pm

      @Okie from Muskogee

      That’s exactly right Okie. The progressive tax system is a marxist system. Always has been. It‘s as unconstitutional as the 16th amendment that wasn’t raftified properly.

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on September 22, 2011 at 8:16pm

      Hi Okie,

      Totally agree !!!!!!!

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    • thepatriotdave
      Posted on September 23, 2011 at 12:41am

      I’m loving the top photo of Ms. Warren where she seems to be showing her audience the approximate size of her brain.

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    • thomasdaddy
      Posted on September 23, 2011 at 11:05am

      viet,

      The portions in quotes are from the article you posted.

      “The 10 percent of households with the highest incomes pay more than half of all federal taxes. They pay more than 70 percent of federal income taxes, according to the Congressional Budget Office.”

      They also own 70% of the countries wealth, so that stands to reason that they would pay more in taxes!

      “This year, households making more than $1 million will pay an average of 29.1 percent of their income in federal taxes, including income taxes, payroll taxes and other taxes, according to the Tax Policy Center, a Washington think tank. ”

      6% short of the top tax rate where they are supposed to be paying.

      No matter how you slice it, it all boils back down to the fact that the middle and poorer classes spend a higher percentage of their salaries on living, and should receive more tax relief! The rich have enjoyed tax breaks and a lower tax rate for a long time, now the economy is in trouble and they act like bringing back the tax rates from the Clinton years is a travesty! They won’t be paying at that 39% tax rate anyway due to deductions, and loopholes! The middle class drives the economy. It’s hysterical to me to see so many brainwashed middle class cons fight the battle for the rich! LOL

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    • Libertyluvnmomma
      Posted on September 23, 2011 at 12:37pm

      Jimi Hendrix sang about girls like her, with tire tracks all across her back.

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    • cherokee3
      Posted on September 23, 2011 at 2:36pm

      Someone opens a business, hires some people to work for them, those working for the company or factory AGREE to pay terms and work requirements.
      Owner should make a profit, since they are taking a risk to begin with. Some business owners even share ownership or stakes in the business with the employees! Yes they do!
      If you choose to work for a business that does not do that, you don’t have a right to complain about it.
      No one OWES anyone else anything in this life.
      The ‘have’s‘ do not owe the ’have not‘s’…charity and generosity ideally would take care of alot of problems for the ‘have not’s’. But no one is obligated to give, somehow the government has decided it will force the ‘have’s’ to give. It is WRONG!!

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    • jzs
      Posted on September 23, 2011 at 8:02pm

      spirit of freedom, that’s a great success story and I mean it.

      But to the commie part. President Obama and Oprah Winfrey also were born dirt poor, raised by single mothers and were black to boot. And they’re liberals. So I don’t think you can extrapolate.

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    • WHoareyouanyway
      Posted on September 24, 2011 at 5:22am

      Could you possibly make less sense?

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    • montanagf
      Posted on October 4, 2011 at 5:15pm

      you say,if they listen to what they say they will realize how stupid they sound .I say, if you read what you wrote and check out your grammer, you will realize……. Warren has years of economic advising and uses DATA to back up what she’s saying about the debate on our economic problems. You resort to name calling in the debate. I guess you have no data or logic to back you up?

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  • Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
    Posted on September 21, 2011 at 6:29pm

    Because factory owners pay NO EXCISE TAXES for the support of the roads that carry their materials, raw or finished, and NO PROPERTY TAXES for the support of the schools that (mis)educate its work force, and NO CORPORATE INCOME TAXES for the support of the armed forces that keep the factory safe… Oh… you mean they DO pay all those taxes and more?

    Well, then I guess Elizabeth Warren is just full of $#!&.

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    • platitude
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 6:36pm

      she also forgot to mention those who inherited wealth like romney.

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    • AwakenedGiant
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 6:37pm

      Bingo!

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    • quicker
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 6:43pm

      Or marry into it like John Kerry.

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    • cologoddess
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 6:48pm

      Well said.

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    • TH30PH1LUS
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 6:48pm

      I was thinking the exact same thing.

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    • chazman
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 6:49pm

      … everything the Obama’s have was given to them. Any misfortunes in their lives are someboy else’s fault.

      The Liberal Marxist mind is a waste of grey matter … Elizabeth Warren is an idiot.

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    • The10thAmendment
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 7:00pm

      Elizabeth……………you are an idiot! The Business man pays for even more of his or her share of the use of the roads, etc. These forages into STEALING by these progressives/communists/liberals, must be stopped…………no matter the cost.

      “To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father’s has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association—the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.”

      “God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty…. And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.”

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    • ohblies
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 7:00pm

      Al Gore didn’t get rich on his own…..he ripped off countless numbers of people. So maybe Warren is partially correct? I wonder what kind of taxes ol’ Al paid? I completely agree with the comments about businesses paying taxes above and beyond income taxes. In Michigan, we have a personal property tax that charges us for every new machine or piece of furniture or tool we buy. And those tax dollars go to support local communities………for things like police, fire, roads, schools, and whatever else the city fathers want to spend it on.

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    • tifosa
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 7:01pm

      Scott Brown, is going down. (You won’t miss him, he’s a RINO. ;^)

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    • The10thAmendment
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 7:01pm

      Anyone ever notice that EVERY progressive/liberal has the same ugly and maniacal look on their faces. They remind me of rabid dogs.

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    • jakartaman
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 7:05pm

      Leave her alone – She is still a virgin if you can’t tell
      Im not saying she is lesbian or anything but she is a liberal an arch liberal.

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    • TSUNAMI-22
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 7:09pm

      @ platitude

      she also forgot to mention those who inherited wealth like romney.
      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      Don’t forget that inherited wealth was money already taxed once before it was saved by the deceased. Taxing it twice through “estate tax” is theft of property.

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    • Sheepdog911
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 7:13pm

      I‘ll bet ya that the wealthy liberals would fight you for it if you showed up and told them that since they didn’t get wealthy on their own, it was yours to take. Nope, only unions get to show up and demand what others have earned.

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    • grandma7
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 7:15pm

      Well Missy Warren – Most of the wealthy dripped their own sweat. The roads belong to the people who are thrilled to see those goods traveling on our roads because it means jobs. People like this nutty lady, should be grateful to those wealthy bosses who hire the workforce – who then pay the taxes – that pay her salary.

      As far as the $1T that she blames on Bush (who spent more than we’d like) – she needs to get her facts straight. It was the Democratics (especially her wonderful president – then senator who voted for all the mess) who ran the house & senate those last two years (when my 401K plummeted). I’m screaming at both sides who conveniently forget that Bush was GUILTY of not Vetoing enough socialist bills from the Dems. January/2006, my IRAs and 401K were at their peak – despite 9/11.

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    • The10thAmendment
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 7:17pm

      Adrian Pierce Rogers had it right all the way back in 1931.

      “What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.

      The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

      When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is the beginning of the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.” Adrian Rogers, 1931 “

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    • lillymckim
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 7:20pm

      Call it what it is Warren … Obama’s Back Door Reparations

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    • Salamander
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 7:25pm

      Hey, Elizabeth! Great logic! Where did you go to school? And, who else can use those roads? And who pays for the labor? etc. Hey, I have an idea! If you want a piece of THAT company, why don’t you buy some stock in it? See, in that way, YOU, TOO, can PARTICIPATE in CAPITALISM! Your IDEA TO HAVE GOVERNMENT TAKE FROM THAT COMPANY IN THE FORM OF TAXES ‘for the general welfare’ is SOCIALISM. Remember Jamestown and Plymouth? THEY found that socialism doesn’t accomplish what you want–BUT CAPITALISM DOES!!! Open your blind eyes and deaf ears and shut your pie hole and THINK, maybe for the first time in your life!!!

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    • encinom
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 7:32pm

      The Koch brother’s attack dogs are out. Please tell me why the Joe Six -PAck Tea Party member is defendin the wealthy, at the expense of their own interests? Are the crumbs you beg for from the Wealthy’s table worth the lose of rights and the increase in burdens?

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    • spendthrift
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 7:35pm

      Wealth comes in many forms, wanting a better life and doing better for yourself without government is one of them.

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    • pjgroff61
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 7:43pm

      Or like Barack Obama they could have worked for Tony Rezco, and made their millions

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    • Viet Vet
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 7:43pm

      Exactly right Lesbian….she’s talking to the people she thinks are dumb enough to not recognize that those people pay the same fees and taxes. Further, most businesses and corporations give huge sums of money every year for the betterment of their communities. My state, which suffered bigtime property losses due to the spring and summer flooding received beaucoup money from the Corporations operating in the state. In fact, the telethon I watched, Halliburton gave the largest amount. One wingnut above (gawd for ignorance) is apparently used to propagandizing to the Choir, but it doesn’t work here, mentioned inherited money as if that’s where it all comes from (it just landed out of the sky to the orginal aquirers of the money anyway). Trying to pick up where the propagandist Warren left off. And while a small amount of the evil rich owe part of their wealth to inheritance, they are a small minority today. Not that the democraps haven’t strived hard over the years to rob these people (all families actually), via the Estate Tax.

      http://blogs.wsj.com/wealth/2008/01/14/the-decline-of-inherited-money/

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    • Viet Vet
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 7:47pm

      @The10thAmendment

      I think of it as ‘wild eyed’ lunacy. Caused I’m sure by their brains being short-circuited.

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    • Exrepublisheep
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 7:48pm

      @10thamendment. And if Glenn Beck is the “Patriot” who waters the tree? Then maybe Bachman? Lots of fertilizer there!

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    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 7:55pm

      See how many roads you build and people you educate when the sign on the door reads ( Closed )

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    • Bete Noire
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 7:56pm

      Or takes it on the sly like Perry

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    • decendentof56
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 8:07pm

      Les…..meant to click on your reply.

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    • geonj
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 8:19pm

      well said

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    • AvengerK
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 8:21pm

      Don’t stop there Hollow Points….salaries paid for by who? Municipal bonds and notes bought with free capital that pay for government projects and utilities, invested in by who? Schools paid for with who’s tax money? Without the most productive sector you wouldn’t have a fraction of the education, police and fire and infrastructure capital to pay for it and maintain it all. No entrepeneurship, no risk? No job, no salary, no roads, no cops, no firemen, no schools. Someone slap Warren on the back of the head and tell the idiot to stop saying “stuff” without thinking.

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    • AvengerK
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 8:29pm

      “[...] because of the work the rest of us did.”….and Elizabeth…would that work be there without the risk and the entrepeneurship of the business man? Better yet..would that salary be there? That school is paid for with tax dollars culled from the most productive sector Elizabeth. Without the growth of business, infrastructure, police/fire, education expenditure would be a trickle.
      And let’s not forget, the investor and the businessman spends some of his capital on investments like municipal bonds and notes which pay for government projects like airports, schools, roads, libraries..etc. Look at all the states losing police, teachers and firemen because they”ve gone broke due to excessive benefits for government workers that cannot be paid for. Business fleeing those states. Just print some more money Elizabeth? I don’t think so. Idiot.

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    • The10thAmendment
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 8:40pm

      @ platitude
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 6:36pm

      she also forgot to mention those who inherited wealth like romney.
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      I perceive a lack of intellect in you. Well okay, it’s not a perception, it’s blatant obviousness. If you, me, or anyone else inherits wealth, what the hell is that to anyone else? It‘s nobody’s business but the family’s.

      “To take from one because it is thought that his own industry ”and that of his father’s” has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association—the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.”

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    • TheBMT
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 8:56pm

      from RepubliCorp—
      See how many roads you build and people you educate when the sign on the door reads ( Closed )

      ***
      That is a perfect comeback.

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    • meddlehead
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 9:12pm

      @LPHP Pardon me for sounding like Chris Matthews, but you screen name is giving me a tingle up my leg. Good post, BTW

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    • rangerp
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 9:31pm

      @encinom

      I do not need to defend the wealthy, and do not really want to be wealthy myslef. Not all are capable of handling the big money. I have enough handling what i make. I learned long ago, if I do as I am supposed to, and pay my tithe, I end up find in the end. My Bible tells me that I will not go without food or clothes, and I have a whole lot more than just food and clothes, that makes me rich in my opinion.

      I do not want “my share” of money I did not earn. If the rich man earned it, he can keep it. Being military, my pay check comes from the tax payers. that being said, I provide a service for you and the rest of those that pay taxes, and those that do not.

      there is a need for taxes, and I would prefer that we all pay the same rate or a flat tax. I want highways, schools in the hands of the local and state gov, a strong military. I will provide my own healthcare, and if someone in my familys is in need, I help them. I do not want a gov system that rewards lazy behavior and imorality.

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    • Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
      Posted on September 22, 2011 at 12:10am

      @Meddle Head:
      Thanks… I think.

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    • lets_be_honest
      Posted on September 22, 2011 at 2:53am

      wow, you have a lot of bitterness. I’m not sure what your argument is supporting.
      Corporations don’t always pay taxes – that’s true. But their workers do pay taxes. The workers also shop in the local stores and buy goods, the workers eat at the local restaurants, the workers buy gasoline at the local 7-Eleven. the workers buy homes that need repairs. the list goes on.

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    • cemerius
      Posted on September 22, 2011 at 9:39am

      @LPHP You are absolutely correct!

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    • Viet Vet
      Posted on September 22, 2011 at 3:46pm

      As a marxist, which Warren certainly is, all non government jobs are illegitimate, the opposite of the Constitutional viewpoint of jobs (limited government). Thats why she doesn’t recognize the jobs produced by the businesses (factories) she is demonizing. When she says “the rest of us are providing”, most of “the rest of us” she’s talking about are getting the money enabling them to pay their taxes to support roads, education, etc., from jobs created by those very factories, businesses, corporations, etc., that she has so much antipathy for. Marxists want complete government usurpation of the private sector. If left to their own devices (if there was no oppositional republican party, or freedom loving citizens to withstrain them) they would nationalize every job in the country. That is their utopia. This is why they have such utter disdain for the private sector. This disdain for the private sector and capitalism is so intrinsic to their pathos that they can’t disguise it when speaking on the subject of economy, jobs, corporations, etc. Class warfare is as natural to them as breathing.

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    • The10thAmendment
      Posted on September 22, 2011 at 4:59pm

      @ Viet Vet
      Posted on September 22, 2011 at 3:46pm

      As a marxist, which Warren certainly is.
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      QFT (quoted for truth)

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  • Joe Belleau
    Posted on September 21, 2011 at 6:29pm

    What a fraud.

    When was the last time someone built a factory here in the United States ?

    The collectivist left is utterly delusion and their primitive superstitions have no place in America.

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    • platitude
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 6:35pm

      primitive superstitions of the left? I think thats a projection there buddy.

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    • oldguy49
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 6:50pm

      when she worked and bought a home did she give a room to one of the workers?

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    • NHwinter
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 7:21pm

      I have only this to say, these people are liars, con artists, and just plain out of their minds!

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    • PatriotComeLately
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 7:22pm

      Ummmm, Joe, …..Solyndra on taxpayer money…..

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    • Laus Deo
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 8:04pm

      Hello, Joe.

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    • riverdog1
      Posted on September 22, 2011 at 11:44am

      well joe there is the boing plant and some car factories as well but you and rush, who has said it many times “outsourcing is a plank in the republican party”. god bless our rich overlords, please don’t hurt us.

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  • Firebrand
    Posted on September 21, 2011 at 6:28pm

    The problem is that those on the left think that the government allows you to keep as much of your money as you do. They believe that the money belongs to the government and you get to keep what they don’t need or feel like should be used in the way that they see fit. Do we needs taxes? Absolutely. The truth of the matter is that we allow them to take our money. It’s not they who allow us to keep it. In return for our money, they should ONLY provide necessities (security, settling state disputes, military and vet spending, etc.) Making sure an American citizen doesn’t starve? Yes, that’s money well spent. Making sure to buy someones food so that they can have internet and a computer? No, that is not money well spent, because it isn’t providing for a true need. My mother used to say that there is a difference between needs and wants and as long as I was alive I wouldn’t have to worry about needs. She would provide at whatever sacrifice because I was her child, but getting my wants was up to me. She gave me what I needed on both accounts. Just my two cents…

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  • ARealCharliesAngel
    Posted on September 21, 2011 at 6:28pm

    1) What is rich? (Someone making $45,000/year is “rich” to someone making $32,000/year)!

    2) Are you an idiot on crack?! (Statistics & facts PROVE you wrong!!)

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    • biohazard23
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 7:21pm

      No, she’s on meth.

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    • Salamander
      Posted on September 22, 2011 at 12:34am

      Let us not forget that, at her level in our Federal government, she was probably making $160,000 or so–easy money, paycheck guaranteed! I make about $24,000 and, frankly, it doesn’t quite pay the bills! To add me to his healthcare, My employer would have to pay another $18,000, yet I pay only $3,600 for my high-limit health insurance, plus all expenses for the first $3,000, so maybe $6,600 a year for ‘equivalence’! Last week, I had to work 14 hours on a Saturday to make my employer’s firm look good and get the job done–it just worked out that way! On Monday, two hours into my day, I was laid off for the rest of the day because of the Saturday ovetime! Okay, my boss is a little immature, wet behind the ears, running on inherited/family money! So what! He provides jobs for about 12 people, jobs that wouldn‘t be there if he hadn’t been born with a silver spoon in his mouth! Do I envy him? No! Should he pay more taxes? Probably not! Am I grateful to have ‘a job’ so that I can put food in my mouth? Yes! By the way, for every $1 I earn over $14,000, I have to return 50-cents to Social Security, AND for those months in which I have to do so, my son forfeits 1/2 my F.R.A. benefit, AND I have to pay tax on my ‘earnings’! Frankly, I think the $24,000 would make ends meet if it weren’t that I have to give back $1,500 for every $1,200 I make in those months AND I have to pay taxes on the $1,200, say about $180! So, it COSTS ME $480 more than I make each month

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  • AmericanPrideisAlive
    Posted on September 21, 2011 at 6:28pm

    What about the guy laying on the couch that was too lazy to go get a job at the factory built by the “rich” man? Should we pay for him too?

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    • SHOWMESTATEGUY
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 6:37pm

      We already do.

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    • Mr. Vitriol
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 7:02pm

      ummm…let’s see. I don’t know the exact number, but I think it is like HALF of America doesn’t pay a damn dime in taxes because they get a big fat whopping tax return at the end of the year that nullifies anything they may have paid through gas tax, fed tax, food tax, etc. That included me up to a few years ago. Therefore, not only is the factory owner PAYING for HIS (I like how she mentions only the masculine form when she says “gets rich” part) factory, but HE is also paying for the road to his factory and then the food for the person without a job and for everything else. Mrs. Warren, cut the class warfare CRAP. Please, for my sake and the rest of us who have brains to think for ourselves.

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    • Kitsune
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 7:10pm

      Only if he votes Democrat.

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  • inblack
    Posted on September 21, 2011 at 6:27pm

    White House financial reform adviser ???
    This is the ultimate disqualifier for ANY job.

    How can this stooge walk away from the biggest financial disaster in the world and run for office?

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    • commonsenseguy
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 6:40pm

      and you know what is scary, is she will have one heck of a chance in winning ,because of the left wing communist supporting unions.we better pray that the great people Massachusetts get out and vote,for their state and their freedom.and for the rest of our great country

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  • Y2kHoax61
    Posted on September 21, 2011 at 6:27pm

    Typical liberal marxist. They never understand that it still requires an individual to come up with the idea and to choose to take the risk. I mean an individual could just as well decide to sit on their butt at home. The government has no right to confiscate an individuals private property (wealth) beyond the parameters of the US Constitution. Ms. Warren is wrong. Go Scott Brown!

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  • ezeewhiz
    Posted on September 21, 2011 at 6:26pm

    They do pay a big hunk my dear especially to the approx. 47% of so called Americans that pay naring a nickle towards the things you spewed about. But of course you just cant look into that mirror now can you?

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  • mrmikejohnson
    Posted on September 21, 2011 at 6:26pm

    80% of millionaires in the US are self made millionaires. Democrats just can’t understand that hard work can lead to wealth. The teachers with million dollar pensions…… That’s another story.

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  • rjoco1
    Posted on September 21, 2011 at 6:25pm

    Hey lady, only 53% of the people are paying for it. Wake up you imbecile, you don’t think we paid for the roads, education etc.

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    • tifosa
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 7:05pm

      The other 47% own 2.5% of the nations wealth.

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    • booger71
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 8:26pm

      tifosa
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 7:05pm

      The other 47% own 2.5% of the nations wealth.
      ——————————–
      So what?

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    • AvengerK
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 8:34pm

      Ok TIFOSA…tell me why the least productive sector has 2% of the wealth? Hint..“least productive” will help you. By all means TIFOSA just give them your “wealth” and try to raise that percentage. Another hint…you’ll be just as poor and unproductive.

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    • MAProg
      Posted on September 23, 2011 at 12:46am

      Gotta love the thought process that because you are poor that you are unproductive and that your being poor is your own fault. Secondly, those people do pay taxes, as there are other forms of tax than just income tax.

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  • eat-more-bacon-USA
    Posted on September 21, 2011 at 6:25pm

    Just another typical obama democrat – they all sound alike, and they all smell the same.

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    • TPartyXpress
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 7:41pm

      The smell is all too familiar. Let’s all have more BBQ pork courtesy of the leftist swine.

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    • AvengerK
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 8:14pm

      Actually Lizzy….we wouldn’t have high growth in infrastructure and education without the growth of bussiness. The amounts of money corporations, businessmen and high earners pay in taxes allow that type of growth to take place. This is plain history, not speculation. They also pay taxes that keep those schools open that “educate” those children (we’ll ignore private schools for now). Additionally, the investor with free capital buys municipal bonds and notes. These fund airports, roads, hospitals, libraries, schools…the list is very large. Try keeping those going without the investor Lizzy.
      Furthermore Lizzy…those same corporations and higher earners pay the salaries of the workers who use those roads to go to work. Keep their homes, possessions and lives protected with police and fire agencies mostly paid for by the most productive sector. All because business pays a lot more dollars in taxes and pays the salaries of the rest who pay into the system. No entrepeneurship and risk? No taxes, no jobs, no salaries, no cops, no firemen, no schools, no roads. Think I’m kidding Lizzy? Look at all the laid off government workers in various states because the state has gone broke paying excessive benefits to government workers while business flees the state. No money around Lizzy. Just print some right?
      So Lizzy…those cops, fireman, schools and roads don’t get, paid, supplied, clothed, housed, built and maintained on their own, someone pays for them.

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  • BeyondFedup
    Posted on September 21, 2011 at 6:25pm

    In the words of Cheech or Chong, “Ain’t she a peach?”

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  • CatB
    Posted on September 21, 2011 at 6:24pm

    What an idiot .. I mean really … they keep topping each other!

    TEA!

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    • Netsurfer2
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 8:36pm

      You so right! After all, why would any billionaire say that they need to pay more taxes and their secretary pays more than they do? Because they get more loop holes and their idea is to see the small millionaires pay more when they don’t! You know the drill… it’s always point the finger and run the system! It’s all about control, control, control… Progressives are always control freaks to where they think they know what’s good for you! The truth is, they don’t want you to drive your own car and take a bus, when they would never do such! They could care less about you and who you are, nor your education, nor your creativeness in life! If you say that you want to go to college while working, most employers would not hire you for fear you will jump to a better job somewhere else. These idiots want to control your every move in life, if not own you! You can’t control the educated.

      TEA

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    • ronaldreaganthegreat
      Posted on September 22, 2011 at 9:00am

      Spot on CatB!!!!

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  • Skiddrowe
    Posted on September 21, 2011 at 6:24pm

    “You built a factory out there? Good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police-forces and fire-forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn’t have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory — and hire someone to protect against this — because of the work the rest of us did.

    The rest of us? My taxes payed for the roads, polices & firemen too! I also have to pay the property taxes for my factory… and payroll taxes, ssi, regulation fees (tax), licence fees (tax), sales taxes on purchases, and so on… BTW, What work did you do that specifically benefitted my factory?

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    • chips1
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 7:02pm

      She has been a lot-lizzard too long. Time for her penicillan.

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  • SHOWMESTATEGUY
    Posted on September 21, 2011 at 6:24pm

    This is an example of dem lib thinking in it’s most pure form. Sounds a lot like communism thinking don’t you think?

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    • Old_Glory
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 7:40pm

      Exactly. As an immigrant who moved here from a communist country, I saw what communism really entails. And for someone who has lived and witnessed its ramifications, I can tell you that all these liberals would eat their words if they were to come face to face with it and actually experience it here in US.

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  • Redscot
    Posted on September 21, 2011 at 6:23pm

    Oh brother is she an idiot.

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  • Theleftisda
    Posted on September 21, 2011 at 6:22pm

    Typical left wing progressive communist talking points

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    • Laus Deo
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 6:28pm

      Id-ee-utt. Don’t ask me to spell it out for you.

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  • beekeeper
    Posted on September 21, 2011 at 6:22pm

    “But part of the underlying social contract is, you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along.”

    Oddly, the factory builder ALSO paid as much (or more) in taxes as everyone else, and all those public services while they do contribute to the factory-builder, also educate and protect everyone else…

    When the factory-builder takes a risk, puts his own money on the table and makes something out of what is around him, you say everyone should share in the success (pay it back), but if the community is truly a partner in the factory-building endeavor, will the community make the risk-taking factory-builder whole, or is it a one-way relationship?

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  • WILLIAM E.
    Posted on September 21, 2011 at 6:20pm

    Wow, what a smart lady. NOT !!

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    • woodyl1011fl
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 11:12pm

      The idiot, moronic, ignorant and pavlovian democrat voters of the Peoples Socialist Republic of MA think she is real smart but then like Delaware the Marxist/Leninists/Stalinists/Maoists are the mainstream of the political culture of ignorance and corruption in all these east coast states and the westcoast is right there with them and alll are self-destructing.

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  • Walkabout
    Posted on September 21, 2011 at 6:19pm

    When a government can provide all necessary services with a 10% tax but instead imposes a 15% or 20% tax that is oppression, theft & mismanagement.

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    • Chuck Stein
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 6:27pm

      Exactly. Her statement is actually correct. But the application of that logic cannot extend to squandering resources on graft, croney capitalism, vote-buying, waste, fraud, abuse, etc.

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  • westtitus
    Posted on September 21, 2011 at 6:18pm

    What the HECK does getting rich on your own and class warfar even have in common! What an idiot!

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    • platitude
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 6:49pm

      what about the guy who inherited the wealth his mommy and daddy chose to not pay their middle class workers? should we all pay for that lazy schmuck?

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    • platitude
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 6:54pm

      the people making the class war allegations are basing their argument on a false pretense that all rich people are self made (i.e. they worked for it). trumps dadddy and romneys daddy and many others had daddy who were multimillionaires. they of coarse, like to pretend that theirs is a rags to riches story. people arent buying it anymore. you may as well say that the parisians were waging a class war against the hard working king louis the 16th.

      there is the link

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    • Rabidconservative
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 11:34pm

      So what if someone had parents who where successful and wanted to ensure their family are taken care of. They earned the damned money and can leave it to who ever in the hell they want to. People like you are full of envy, and hate against the very people that bust their butts to become wealthy. Again let me try to explain this to you. The person who left wealth to their heirs earned whatever they left to them, and you or anyone else have no right to a dime of it. If you want wealth get off your ass and build a business your self.

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    • STOPTHEPROGRESSIVES
      Posted on September 22, 2011 at 12:19am

      Platitude. You should change your handle to Foolatude.

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    • Matrix22
      Posted on September 22, 2011 at 8:01pm

      Wait Platitude, are you actually implying it’s somehow BAD to leave your family wealth and prosperity! HOLY CRAP you’re an idiot! I guess the Tides foundation, Ford Foundation, the Kennedy’s, etc. etc. should all be stripped of their money and they should force every child to start with nothing. How much is too much to give your children? On the other hand, Romney’s parents did force those middle class employees to work at their mutually agreed upon salaries while at gunpoint with no way of every leaving. So I guess I’m wrong, they don’t deserve to pass on their success to future generations.

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  • mml35
    Posted on September 21, 2011 at 6:16pm

    well lizzy, he paid into all of that to, what a stupid arguement commies

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    • avenger
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 6:22pm

      why bother..this progressive betch is beyond help…

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    • BeyondFedup
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 6:28pm

      You are right, he has paid into everything. She is just another bat sheet crazy liberal.

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    • RLTW
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 9:41pm

      Not only has the business owner paid into the system, he/she continues to pay taxes on transportation, raw product, communication and employee to name a few.

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    • MAProg
      Posted on September 23, 2011 at 12:52am

      it’s not a “stupid agrument” because while he paid into it, many many more workers paied into it.

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  • drattastic
    Posted on September 21, 2011 at 6:13pm

    Well Elizabeth with that kind of logic I‘m sure you won’t mind if I come over to your house ,raid the fridge ,hang out on your couch in my underwear and watch the game . maybe order in a pizza ,dig through your purse to pay for it . Then when I get bored ,take your car out for a long drive, maybe roll it at high speed and leave it a smoldering pile of scrap metal along side the road. Just because my tax dollars paid your salary.

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    • spirited
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 6:29pm

      ROTFLMAO!

      $^>“Pay it foward”

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    • BeyondFedup
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 6:29pm

      Good idea!

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    • ladykrystyna
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 6:29pm

      Wouldn’t that make a great rally? We could gather up lots of people to show up at the houses of millionaires and billionaires who are behind Obama on the tax hike. Hey, Elizabeth Warren says that you used our money to help make your money, so we’re moving in.

      Think that would go over well?

      Probably not.

      And that would make our point very very clear.

      Crystal.

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  • netmail
    Posted on September 21, 2011 at 6:12pm

    She kind of looks like Hillary in this picture. That’s all I have to say about this story.

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    • drattastic
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 6:15pm

      You mean a hag . Yes she is a hag.

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    • Sleazy Hippo
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 6:18pm

      She reminds me of Ayn Rand.

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    • SPOT_OF_TEA
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 6:23pm

      All I see is evil.

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    • netmail
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 6:25pm

      Yeah, the Dem women look ROUGH and the Dem men look like Harry Reid.

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    • whatisay
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 7:10pm

      @netmail

      Actually, the men look like Ellen Degeneres.

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    • ImWatchingYouAll
      Posted on September 21, 2011 at 10:20pm

      She forgets that all those “goods made in the factory” were transported by trucks that pay a lot to USE those “taxpayer” roads.

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    • Gnostyk
      Posted on September 22, 2011 at 2:36am

      Hell, Sleazy, your inflatable woman reminds you of Ayn Rand.

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