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MSNBC Host Snaps in Heated Segment: ‘What in the World Is Riskier Than Being a Poor Person in America?’

MSNBC Host Melissa Harris Perry: What is Riskier Than Being a Poor Person in America?

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MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry apologized for “losing [her] temper” Saturday morning after snapping at a panelist over the president’s “you didn’t build that” speech.

The panelist said the president neglected to mention the risks taken by entrepreneurs in his now-notorious speech, when Harris-Perry slammed her hand on the table to say the real risk is taken by the poor in America.

She demanded to know:

“What is riskier than living poor in America?  Seriously!  What in the world is riskier than being a poor person in America?  I live in a neighborhood where people are shot on my street corner.  I live in a neighborhood where people have to figure out how to get their kid into school because maybe it will be a good school and maybe it won’t.  I am sick of the idea that being wealthy is risky.  No! …Being poor is what is risky!

We have to create a safety net for poor people. And when we won’t, because they happen to look different from us, it is the pervasive ugliness.”

Watch the extremely heated exchange, below (skip to 8:16):

The commentator who provoked the reaction looked a little uncomfortable, while panelists who presumably agreed with Harris-Perry seemed sympathetic to her outburst.

“I’m sorry, but you know the whole notion of ‘job creators’…consumers are job creators,” comedian and CBS contributor Nancy Giles responded, after saying she agreed with Perry.  “We’re the ones who make, the ones who help make, business, and who help make industry.”

There was little discussion of how dangerous it is to be poor in the rest of the world compared to in America, or of how objections to a bloated social safety net have nothing to do with how people look.

While MSNBC noted Harris-Perry’s apology, they also directed readers to her Facebook and Twitter pages where, they note, viewers were seemingly supportive of the rant.

“It’s up to you as to whether or not you wish to accept that apology,” they write.

(H/T: Mediaite)

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  • Wilma
    Posted on September 1, 2012 at 6:47pm

    I understand her frustration. But, she was off topic.

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    • watersRpeople
      Posted on September 1, 2012 at 7:24pm

      Being rich in America is risky. The rich stand to lose more than a poor person.

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    • watersRpeople
      Posted on September 1, 2012 at 7:26pm

      I’d rather be poor, and have a rod of a soul, because then I can bury riches and dig them up in my next life.

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    • watersRpeople
      Posted on September 1, 2012 at 7:31pm

      Would rather be rich and famous, or have immortality?

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    • karencole
      Posted on September 1, 2012 at 7:32pm

      @WILMA, What you said about Chris Hayes….check out he said about Clint Eastwood’s Super Bowl ad….too funny.

      “If you doubt the potential effectiveness of this message, if you doubt its political potency, all you have to do is look at the conservative backlash against the Clint Eastwood ad today,” Hayes said.
      Raw Story (http://s.tt/1d7Fb)

      So basically we can say the same thing about Chris now, right? Now that he‘s backlashing against Clint’s speech….no?

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    • Sirfoldallot
      Posted on September 1, 2012 at 7:59pm

      2 be in America with a bunch of nut jobs is risky.

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    • hifi74
      Posted on September 1, 2012 at 8:02pm

      WATERSRPEOPLE,

      Your premise is inherently flawed. You equate being rich with having no soul and/or being evil. THAT is the problem anymore, people like you chide success and striving for success. You claim it as evil and bad. Those people that worked hard and were successful should be emulated and people should strive to be like them, not demonize them. Your comment says much about how you feel and tells the rest of us that you are nothing but a lazy SOB and a taker. You want what everyone else has but you don’t want to do it yourself. You would rather depend on the government to give it to you. Which is exactly what should be demonized. The laziness and loathing from you speaks volumes.

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    • WindyDualism
      Posted on September 1, 2012 at 8:10pm

      Wilma
      Her frustration is emotion. She belongs on a Jerry type show, not one that purports to have actual news and opinion not based in faux rage and anger. I feel her hyphen more. But she does not confront me in the least. Feel me?

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    • JimCDew
      Posted on September 1, 2012 at 8:15pm

      Poor is not a physical condition. It is a fiscal condition easily cured by getting to work and earning your own living without relying on others beyond your first paycheck. The harder you work, the further you get from poor. If you want to go for the really big bucks risk what you own and start your own business where you work for yourself and risk losing it all.

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on September 1, 2012 at 8:21pm

      What’s riskier? Pretty much anything outside America, even including being rich outside of America?

      Some people, you wonder, do they ever leave our borders or do they get their entire life view from the internet?

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    • Chinishque
      Posted on September 1, 2012 at 8:37pm

      @Ghost…YES finally somebody said it! To be poor in America is the equivalent of being wealthy in most of the world, where poor means that you live in a shantytown hut with no running water and often eat rats or bugs because that is all there is. The average “poor” in America have two color TV sets with one being a large flat-screen and every member of the family has a cell phone! They have at least one car and they eat out at least three times per week…it may be at McDonalds but its still eating out. they drink coke not water from the tap and eat meat every darn day. I am tired of hearing this pablum. the problems of the inner city have less to do with money and far more to do with a lack of morality!

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    • EddardinWinter
      Posted on September 1, 2012 at 9:03pm

      She is just another sad liberal statist who never learned to celebrate success. You seem to find a lot of these angry, petty, and small minded folks on that network. The good news is that if it weren’t for the Blaze, NB, and AT, I would never know it. I am sure dozens of viewers were tuned in for this show…..

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    • Rob in Katy
      Posted on September 1, 2012 at 9:06pm

      Try being poor in a foreign country, you know where you don’t have: plazma tvs, McD’s, free cell phones, free health care, welfare, ….. yeah, poor here don’t really compete with the poor in Hati, Africa, Cuba, South America. Which is why they don’t feel a pressing need to find work!

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    • crackerone
      Posted on September 1, 2012 at 9:08pm

      @watersport

      It’s labor day pal. Take a well deserved rest.

      And I mean it sincerely, God Bless!

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    • dealer@678
      Posted on September 1, 2012 at 9:13pm

      Its gonna be interesting to find out in November if Americans will sell their freedom for 30 pieces of silver

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    • Gold Coin & Economic News
      Posted on September 1, 2012 at 9:20pm

      Another deluded liberal constructing a straw man she can destroy while missing the whole point the other lady was making. No, Obama has no freaking clue about what entrepreneurs face, what they risk, because he’s never even had a single job. Yes, it is inherently risky to start your own business and being poor has its risks as well, but they are two TOTALLY different kids of risks. Apparently, that isn’t evident to Melissa Harris-Perry because she is a liberal tool. Such foolishness.

      Here is the kind of voter Melissa and Obama wants:
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTRqjpK6ScQ

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    • muddpuddle
      Posted on September 1, 2012 at 9:22pm

      @ watersport, everybody already has immortal life. And its got nothing to do with riches…. Here is a tip, no charge….. Even a fool is counted wise if he keeps his mouth shut.

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    • jzs
      Posted on September 1, 2012 at 9:28pm

      Melissa Harris-Perry has strong beliefs and they certainly came out in this video. And I gotta admit, it looked like she’d had one too many cups of coffee.

      I ask myself, “What is the Blaze angle for posting this video?” It’s certainly not for the content. These were all liberal having a lively and intense discussion about government policy, all within a general left wing scope of ideas. You’ll never see a discussion that intelligent on FOX. When they have group policy discussions they all sing the same note or at least in harmony.

      Melissa Harris-Perry has, I guess, joined the ranks of other devils, like Soros and Piven in the mind of the extremists. The right is expanding their list of hated enemies from Jews to blacks like Harris-Perry. She asked for it though by getting a show: she’s too smart, too knowledgeable and educated and too black for the right wing She’s exact opposite of Sarah Palin, which is enough to explain the animus.

      jzs  
    • LiberalOverload
      Posted on September 1, 2012 at 10:04pm

      They create their own frustration by turning EVERYTHING in a race issue.

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    • nealb4zodd
      Posted on September 1, 2012 at 10:12pm

      I completely agree with you WILMA. – so all that was for what? Because she wants us to know in her rant that she recognizes something we already know? That the poor need a safety net? – ok. I believe the poor DO have a safety net. But what the poor doesnt have and wont get .. is a “advance 3 spaces” in life card on the gameboard of LIFE. Life doesnt work that way. often in life these hand outs hold them back. I wont speak for all of you, but i know we ALL want everyone to have equal opportunity . .black, white, poor, middle class, handicapped. – - – when someone advances themselves out of poverty or beats the odds, we LOVE that and applaud that. What we Don‘t need is government hanging on our backs as we’re trying to get out and succeed.

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    • 13th Imam
      Posted on September 1, 2012 at 10:15pm

      You do mean the poor with the big screen tv’s, and new cars and cell phones and taxpayer subsidized food stamps and computers and taxpayer subsidized free school lunches for their kids and taxpayer subsidized housing?

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    • nobull14
      Posted on September 1, 2012 at 10:42pm

      I will say watching MSNBC is like seeing one of there shows from Lock up Raw You know theres something wrong with the inmate ?. and they do not really want the truth out why he is really locked up in the first place .

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    • NeoFan
      Posted on September 1, 2012 at 10:47pm

      The problems she is frustrated with are the result of democrat policies and prevalent in democratically controlled areas. After democrats and leftists took control of our government you saw these same problems increase nationwide. The same thing happens everytime democrats control the government. She should vote for conservatives if she really wants to have those issues decrease.

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    • PATTY HENRY
      Posted on September 1, 2012 at 11:16pm

      ONE MORE TIME: THE “POOR” in AMERICA can well be the “RICH” in AMERICA in a decade or two!!!
      99% of the RICH in AMERICA were born into POOR or LOWER MIDDLE CLASS OR MIDDLE CLASS
      FAMILIES!!!

      THIS IS WHAT separates AMERICA from every other country in the world!!! America is an IDEA. AN IDEA of FREEDOM to build whatever kind of life one wants!! NO other country is like that. Some are because of a common Ancestor pool; Some are total CLASS Controlled (and people born poor stay poor…they could NEVER even DREAM of being better) WHAT PART OF THAT CAN’T YOU PEOPLE UNDERSTAND?

      If the inner cities are permeated with lawlessness, thank the Government Unions. These Unions have sucked up all the $$$ (making their Leaders Multi-Millionaires/Billionaires) but Cities in bad
      shape!!! …then we have the UNIONIZED teachers – teaching our school kids INCORRECT National History; preparing them worship that SOB in the WH; the elimination of our 10 Commandments; of GOD …and still expect us to have a CIVIL SOCIETY !!! These Commie blood-suckers care for nothing but their own wealth and staying in power. ASK ANY person who managed to escape former Communist countries in E. Europe or Russia..and you will hear that what is going on here is exactly what went on there…and that NEVER did a “LEVEL” playing field develop…but only SLAVERY and MURDER by the MILLIONS in effort to ‘control’ the population. WAKE UP AMERICANS This is YOUR COUNTRY TOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    • LaughinWillow
      Posted on September 1, 2012 at 11:31pm

      Good for her. Sick of all the whining about the wealthy when they currently own a larger percentage of the nation’s wealth than any other time in history. And we’re supposed to just be “ok” with this because they’re “job creators?” (I guess, ignoring the fact that these supposed “job creators” almost crashed the economy and have shipped millions and millions of jobs off to a socialist country that tortures people)

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    • Freedombeliever
      Posted on September 1, 2012 at 11:47pm

      *Sigh* ..Here goes MSNBC again. What is worse than being a poor person in America? Being a poor person IN ANY OTHER COUNTRY IN THE WORLD!! Obama wants to eliminate America’s exceptionalism. This administration if given 4 more years will spend us into a debt that we cannot recover from and this will turn us into a failing country not a prosperous one. Once our goverment can no longer afford all of Obama’s entitlement programs; not only will our poor be even poorer but millions of middle class citizens will be thrust into poverty. We will be the 3rd world country Obama wants. And he can then usurp power and become the dictator he dreams of being. Hope that sits well with all of MSNBC. They will be obsolete.

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    • Freedombeliever
      Posted on September 2, 2012 at 12:01am

      @ Laughinwillow

      Are you serious? This is one of the most delusional posts I have ever read on here:
      To quote:
      ” (I guess, ignoring the fact that these supposed “job creators” almost crashed the economy and have shipped millions and millions of jobs off to a socialist country that tortures people)”

      Listen to yourself- Job creators crashed the economy? OMG!! Jobs are what CREATE an economy – Our economy was destroyed by federal spending!! This is the funniest thing I have ever read. Socialist country? What do you think Obama wants to turn America into? Socialist at best – communist at worst. Please, do some research on simple economics before you come on here and post such silliness. I’ll give you a brief primer – no charge, it’s complimentary LOL There HAVE to be people with money to run companies. Those companies have to profit and when they do they hire people. Yes some jobs are outsourced and that is not ideal, but believe me – more of them hire here in the US. You get rid of the people who own companies and entrepeneurs. And we are Greece. Just imagine this – you are typing this on an Apple product or a Windows product. You fire all the CEOs of both companies. What happens? No more internet for you!

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    • mcsledge
      Posted on September 2, 2012 at 12:05am

      watersRpeople – There are rich that will inherit eternal life. Also, a good majority of the poor will not inherit eternal life. It all depends on where one’s heart is. In Christ’s parable, did He frown upon the servant who doubled his five talents? NO. Did He frown upon the servant who doubled his two talents? NO. But, He did frown on the person with one talent who was slothful with that talent. Envy is greed.

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    • halodoc
      Posted on September 2, 2012 at 12:22am

      You understand her frustration? How? In what sane world would anyone understand that crap she just espoused? How about she try a living in A WORLD where only 1% of people ever go to college. A WORLD where if you are caught going to school you risk a death sentence. A WORLD where they hang you if you are gay. A WORLD where you have to worry if going to the market will get you blown up. She’s not frustrated. She’s isolated in a bubble of ignorance. You should understand her, you should pity her.

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    • ChiefGeorge
      Posted on September 2, 2012 at 12:23am

      The more emotional you get the more valid your position is via the leftist liberal mindset. Really? Yes! I understand it because I was innoculated with the same disease as millions of other Americans have been via the MSM and Hollyweird.

      You see….the more authentic your FEELINGS displayed the more RIGHT you must be because your FOLLOWING your HEART…the most fickle thing of your inner being. The heart is wicked and who can know it the Bible tells us.

      Its easy to get worked up about what you see as a valid position and this is and has been used to manipulate us for a long time now because its based solely on the wicked evil heart of a person that is filled with agenda, hate, rage etc. It is used to create victims, create racial divide where the issue may simply come down to trust based on experience.

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    • KyleD
      Posted on September 2, 2012 at 12:32am

      How is it risky to be poor in america? As a poor person I don’t take risks, it‘s why I’m poor.

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    • LaughinWillow
      Posted on September 2, 2012 at 1:08am

      @Freedombeliever – You’re confused. I am not endorsing Obama. I am simply SICK of people acting as if the tiny minority of wealthy americans have somehow suffered under ANY administration for the last 50+ years. I am not a democrat – I am a libertarian, and as such I am willing to admit that CORPORATE WELFARE is a far greater percentage of our national budget than social welfare. And I am tired of these parasites being called “job creators” when they are unamerican thugs, shipping decent American jobs off to China – a SOCIALIST country that tortures people. Romney made a career of this, but somehow it’s all fine because he calls himself a “capitalist?” So morals and ethics don’t matter anymore I guess, so long as money is made, right? As I say, I’m a libertarian, so fine, he wants to deal with socialists, that’s his right. But it’s MY RIGHT to refuse to vote for his sorry, unethical, unAmerican rear end. And if we’re going to attack welfare and “entitlements,” let’s also attack the mountain of entitlements and tax breaks corporations and the wealthy are receiving. I’m just SICK OF LIES. Sick of lies from the left, sick of lies from the right. Just sick of it. And it has been the height of sadness to watch so-called “conservatives” embrace Mitt Romney, who not only is NOT a conservative, he’s not even a decent human being. Just pathetic.

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    • DarkJello
      Posted on September 2, 2012 at 1:10am

      I could only take 1:05 before shutting it down. The race card yet again…

      You know what is more dangerous than being “poor” in America? Being poor almost anywhere else! Nearly every human being in a 3rd world country has it much, much worse than our poor! I am sick of the crocodile tears, 1/2 baked stories, and the race card ad nauseaum 24/7!! More facts and less emotion please.

      Progressives are the disease! Following the constitution is the cure. Cradle to grave government is the OPPOSITE of progress. The left believes in evolution, except in their actions.

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    • Mil-Dot
      Posted on September 2, 2012 at 2:10am

      Look at her eyes. They are the eyes of a person that hates white people and those with whom she cannot compete. Just beneath the surface of her skin, she is filled with hate. Poor people are poor because they are brainwashed since youth, to believe that they are persecuted and entitled. The poor are poor because they are lazy and have been brainwashed by Leninist commies. I will give a truely needy person the shirt off my back and all the money in my pockets, but I will not give a leach a single crumb.

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    • anOpinion
      Posted on September 2, 2012 at 2:44am

      “What is riskier than living poor in America? … We have to create a safety net for poor people.”

      Once again, the liberal idiot point of view. They want a dispiriting safety net that becomes a way of life for people, instead of one that helps them out of needing it.

      Except for those incapable of working, If you want to help a poor person, YOU GIVE THEM A JOB, NOT A HANDOUT. Of course they won’t complain about their deity Obama putting 23 million+ people “at risk” because they are out of work.

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    • LordChaos
      Posted on September 2, 2012 at 5:25am

      She wants to know what is riskier than being poor in the United States? How about being a Christian in a Muslin country.

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    • MSGray
      Posted on September 2, 2012 at 7:01am

      That panel was shocking. You cannot think like that after seeing what welfare does to familes, how getting things handed to you for free destroys your inner soul. I am being kind by saying most of the people on that panel are clueless.

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    • Obama Bin Lying
      Posted on September 2, 2012 at 7:56am

      Wilma….why should it be Riskey to be poor? The Obama base refuses to go out and wok, and they have people giving them Obamabucks, what is there to worry about? This keeps them dependent on the Government. So is what riskier…people being led by the Government or the Government being led by the people?

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    • fire_fighter557
      Posted on September 2, 2012 at 7:59am

      So what, we are all supposed to be rich? Ask people in Asia, South America, Africa and the South Pacific. EVEN THE POOR IN AMERICA ARE RICH.

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    • EndTheGOPTEA
      Posted on September 2, 2012 at 8:13am

      GREED AND GLUTTONY are SINS!!!

      I have Money now but did a 7 year vow of Poverty.. I understand both.. do you. GREED is Capitalism.. And it is a SIN!!

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    • Formula382
      Posted on September 2, 2012 at 8:39am

      Someone tell me where the rich person’s “safety net”, need to get me one of those!

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    • DEMOCRATS.ARE.EVIL
      Posted on September 2, 2012 at 8:48am

      Well….if being poor is risky, don’t settle for being poor [if you don't have to].

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    • bobdog19006
      Posted on September 2, 2012 at 9:05am

      Somebody once said, “I‘ve been rich and I’ve been poor. Rich is better.”

      It’s a truism. That said, the notion that poor people have a right to demand a “safety net” from the government has not produced the results that our politicians routinely promise, starting with Lyndon Johnson. The Great Society ain’t, and it never has been, good at getting people out of poverty. Instead, it pays them to stay in poverty. That’s the damned shame of it, and a look at big city black communities confirms it.

      Three generations of government money dumps have produced nothing but more misery and an endless cycle of povertythat is a national disgrace. Federal handouts may have helped some, but the price is a corrosive deterioration of community values and a constantly reinforced moral disincentive. Lord knows there are people who need help, and some of these problems are not of their making. Some people really need help, and I don’t begrudge the help they receive for a second.

      But there’s something wrong with a system, for example, that penalizes a woman for actually being married and having a husband at home. There’s something wrong with a system that insists on higher and higher minimum wages, when the result is fewer and fewer minimum jobs. After three generations of programs like these, somebody ought to put away the racial hysteria and start asking some tough questions about whether there isn’t a better way to do things.

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    • mattmo79
      Posted on September 2, 2012 at 10:09am

      Being poor in about 190 other countries is a lot riskier than here in the US. Maybe if we had a President who believed in capitalism we would have fewer poor people!

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on September 2, 2012 at 11:10am

      JZS
      What is the point of publicizing MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry comment?

      To show what the MSM is like.

      There are not objectives measure of risk such as life expectancy?

      For example life expectancy in Zimbabwe is declining form 65 or 70 years of age heading south to 35.
      Is that not riskier than being poor in America?

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on September 2, 2012 at 11:14am

      JZS

      An objective measure of risk to a person

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy

      MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry is so wrongheaded so subjective in her thinking that NBC or NBC affiliate is the perfect place for her as a so called media person.

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    • BARBARAF
      Posted on September 2, 2012 at 11:16am

      What’s riskier than being a poor person in the USA? Being a Libyan..and being a Black Libyan:

      The Butchering of Gaddafi Is America’s Crime

      by BAR executive editor Glen Ford

      “Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton appeared like ghoulish despots at a Roman Coliseum, reveling in their Libyan gladiators’ butchery.”

      Last week the whole world saw, and every decent soul recoiled, at the true face of NATO’s answer to the Arab Spring. An elderly, helpless prisoner struggled to maintain his dignity in a screaming swirl of savages, one of whom thrusts a knife [4] up his rectum. These are Europe and America’s jihadis in the flesh. In a few minutes of joyously recorded bestiality, the rabid pack undid every carefully packaged image of NATO’s “humanitarian” project in North Africa – a horror and revelation indelibly imprinted on the global consciousness by the brutes’ own cell phones.

      Nearly eight months of incessant bombing by the air forces of nations that account for 70 percent of the world’s weapons spending, all culminating in the gang-bang slaughter of Moammar Gaddafi, his son Mutassim and his military chief of staff, outside Sirte. The NATO-armed bands then displayed the battered corpses for days in Misurata – the city that had earlier made good on its vow to “purge Black skin” through the massacre and dispersal of 30,000 darker residents of nearby Tawurgha – before disposing of the bodies….

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    • darkknight91
      Posted on September 2, 2012 at 11:26am

      This is nothing but phony outrage. When’s the last time she worked at a soup kitchen or helped the homeless. The American poor have a higher standard of living than the world’s poor. I’m sick of hearing how noble it is to be poor. It’s time these liberal goons define “poor”. The division in this country isn’t going to end well.

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    • Touche Turtle
      Posted on September 2, 2012 at 11:47am

      Being a poor person in Lybia or Syria!!!!! I don’t know EXACTLY what this woman thinks we should be doing for the poor, but it appears to me that they are living better than I do these days. I have to work, I have to pay taxes, I have to pay my own bills, and I have to pay for my own groceries. If I had my entire existence subsidized like the poor do, I would be living pretty large right now!!!!!

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    • Y High Eagle
      Posted on September 2, 2012 at 11:49am

      Being led by offspring of the mother (who attended key meetings at “anarchy alley”) has it’s consequences! –As with Obama, his mother’s generation of these pseudo-intellectual leftist high schoolers found a way to think of themselves as superior. How? By surrounding themselves with co-thinkers. The Seattle Times continues: One respite was found in a wing of Mercer Island High called “anarchy alley.” Jim Wichterman taught a wide-open philosophy course that included Karl Marx. Next door, Val Foubert taught a rigorous dose of literature, including Margaret Mead’s writings on homosexuality.” see The American Thinker October 30, 2008 “Barack Obama: Red Diaper Baby”

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    • DrunkenDuck
      Posted on September 2, 2012 at 11:56am

      She should be very upset with Obama as the poor will be poorer under his regime. We will all suffer, in America at least, and especially women, younger workers, and blacks under Obama’s misguided economic Agenda 21 type one-world policies that are, to use the “progressives” own argument, unsustainable. She uses the propaganda tools of being angry or indignant about something that is the fault of liberal policies and the over-used straw-man fallacy that blames everyone other than those responsible. A straw-man fallacy is committed when a person simply ignores a person‘s or group’s actual position and substitutes a distorted, exaggerated or misrepresented version of that position.
      What she, and other bobble-head dolls of her ilk will never understand is “You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealth out of prosperity” and as Winston Churchill once opined “Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”

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    • phishing4men
      Posted on September 2, 2012 at 12:01pm

      To be in America with a bunch of communist radicals like all but one of this panel is risky. It is time for America to get a back bone and send these fools packing. If they were in Iran or any other Islamic country, they would be taken care of sooner than later. If you do not like America the way it is you are free to find somewhere you are more comfortable. Don’t tell me I can move cause I fought for this country to stay free, not so you liberals could take over. So just butt out.

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    • dmerwin
      Posted on September 2, 2012 at 12:01pm

      What is riskier, well serving in Afghanistan, or in any military capacity (training), driving to work, LIVING in virtually ANY other country except Scandinavia, oh forgot about Oslo. The list goes on. These people are so focused on defending Obama they lose sight of reality.

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    • phishing4men
      Posted on September 2, 2012 at 12:04pm

      jzs is one sick puppy

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    • lillith70
      Posted on September 2, 2012 at 12:32pm

      Representative of the dem operatives in the pop culture media. Indoctrinated ideologues. Does she frequent a black power church that teaches hate? A sense of community begins in the home. Poor people might try uniting and building their community instead of looking elsewhere as they buy $300 sports shoes to build their self esteem IMO.

      So she lives in the hood? Jeremiah Wright of the black power, hate whitey and the America whitey built church lives in a gated, mostly white, community. But who is looking?

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    • Tonto USA
      Posted on September 2, 2012 at 12:40pm

      The problem IS and the bottom line remains that these people are talking about “forced charity” in which an entity forcibly takes wealth from those that it belongs to and gives that wealth to those people who may or may not really need it but who have been taught to DEMAND it because 200 years ago, there was enslavement of black people. That is the reality as I see it….and the encouragement to lay back and relax because someone else will take care of one is incredibly pervasive in this society. From top to bottom, as demonstrated thoroughly in places like Detroit, we see how well that philosophy of living has worked out.

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    • Hugh Williams
      Posted on September 2, 2012 at 1:00pm

      She said “What is riskier than living poor in America? Seriously! What in the world is riskier than being a poor person in America?”
      Poor in America are richer than most people in the world. Most poor in America have a car, a cell phone, a TV, indoor plumbing, access to medical care at ER’s and Medicaid, air condition and heat, government help with cost of food i.e. food stamps. Americans don’t know poverty like billions in other countries know.

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    • dolly9910
      Posted on September 2, 2012 at 1:05pm

      Show me a poor person who ever gave another poor person a job……get with it…..stop drinking the kool aid…

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    • sixtysix
      Posted on September 2, 2012 at 1:53pm

      I hesitate to mention it; but, wouldn’t encouraging people to start small business open up opportunities for poor people to get jobs? Whether to open a business and hire people or sit back and encourage people to draw tax-payer money for doing nothing. In the first instance both the small business owner and the employees benefit. In the second case everyone suffers and the poor sink further into poverty and lose more dignity.

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    • shak4u
      Posted on September 2, 2012 at 1:56pm

      In reply to Chinishque, he has hit the nail on the head. I am 70 years old and moved to the Dominican Republic 3 years ago. I owned a small printing company of 15 employees and was not able to save much as I put 6 children through private school and then helped 4 of them through college. The only way I could live halfway decent was to move to a country that I could survive on my social security. I am partially disabled and would be living in a cardboard box under a bridge on $15,000 a year. Here I live very well and you are right about the poor in America. They don’t know what poor is until they actually experience truly being poor in an emerging 3rd world country that has more freedom than the US. I was able to sell my 2,400 sq. ft home just before the crash and build a 900 square foot home in the DR. We have a flat tax here of 16% and that’s it. No tax, however on necessary food such as milk, bread, meat, veggies, butter etc, just on luxury items. The GDP here was 4.7% last year, almost 3 times the US. I am a 13% minority, but there is NEVER a question of color. 90 % of our friends are “Black” and they can’t understand why Black Americans call themselves “blacks” or “African American”. They think it a way to divide. I’ve been here 3 years and there is no way as a “White” person that I can express the love we have for each other, as there is no racial divide. We are all humans here and they are Dominicans, not African Dominicans. Also, a picture ID is required to

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    • Reagan64
      Posted on September 2, 2012 at 1:57pm

      Fact check where she lives. Not where she grew up. She is in the 1 percent and all she does is give her opinion. How beneficial is that to helping the poor, encouraging to the poor, a safety net is for those who are working, not just getting up each day.

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    • Oaktree Lady
      Posted on September 2, 2012 at 2:19pm

      I went to MSNBC’s comment page and put in what I thought of this harpy. Melissa Harris-Perry has no business having her own show. You couldn’t find a more stereotypical, hysterical, liberal woman than her. She has no right to be on TV spouting her insane, ill-informed views to any audience. She has no sense of timing or any control over her liberal-only guests. This show is un-watchable and I can see that it is destined for the dust-bin TV history with the rest of MSNBC.

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    • disque-0-duc
      Posted on September 2, 2012 at 2:30pm

      I don’t. She just sounds like a shrill ideologue who through her lack of self control diminishes her position.

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    • shak4u
      Posted on September 2, 2012 at 2:42pm

      http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2012/08/flashback-obama.html

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    • frw007
      Posted on September 2, 2012 at 2:50pm

      as someone who risked all our investments, our 401K…everything to keep my business open, to pay my employees then, lost everything, I am truly offended that this lady doesn’t have a clue. My home is foreclosed on, I am ready to declare bankruptcy and this woman thinks “rich” people don’t risk anything? I would love to spend 10 mins with her and tell her the ways of the world. While I accept some blame, our President and his policies ruined my future and my family’s future with this dumper economy. People like her make me insane!

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    • USA5
      Posted on September 2, 2012 at 3:01pm

      Oh I understand this Mellissa Harris and others…The Hate The Poor…I heard Hatred.
      If you love someone you set standards, boundaries, opportunity to succeed …these welfare
      programs, public schools like in Chicago…proof they are destroying families.

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    • johnsnare
      Posted on September 2, 2012 at 3:52pm

      This Is typical of the Black liberal mentality. If you dare even mention something negative about their Messiah, you are immediately labeled a racist. It seems the Black’s, have conveniently forgotten their bigoted, and hateful remarks they hurled at Pres. Bush for eight years. Hypocrites to the end. They also fear, their left wing liberal, radical in chief, will lose in 2012. Good riddance, and maybe we can take America back, and stop the racial nonsense. Never seen see it so bad, since Obama became President..

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    • The.Truth.Rules
      Posted on September 2, 2012 at 3:57pm

      Isn’t claiming that the wealthy are evil one of the tenets of communism? Is there any further proof needed that the universities are overrun – and, for that matter, run – by commies like that deluded Brit ex-pat? They’re always welcome at MostStupidNastyBrutishConvention, where idiots reside.

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    • January24
      Posted on September 2, 2012 at 7:08pm

      Her being off topic is not really the point.

      I wonder whether she heard Marco Rubio talk about the years and years during which his mother worked the overnight shift at K-Mart and his father tended bar at hotel banquets.

      Are the poor people in her neighborhood willing to do that in order to earn an honest living? If they’re not, then I couldn’t give a flying F what she thinks about ANYTHING. The “social safety net” SHOULD BE work.

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    • VoteBushIn12
      Posted on September 2, 2012 at 7:10pm

      @KYLED

      If a person living paycheck to paycheck makes a bad investment, he doesn’t eat next month,
      If a wealthy person makes a bad investment, he has tons more money to catch him.

      When a limited resource is scarce, using it is inherently risky. When that same resource is abundant, people can be more carefree with their use of it. That is what is meant by RISK. Not “how much money can you stand to lose”, but “what happens to your life if your spending goes awry”

      Wealthy people have very little risk. Plane and simple.

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    • SELECT
      Posted on September 2, 2012 at 7:29pm

      IF YOU ARE INTERESTED AND DISAGREE WITH THIS LIBERAL IDIOT. I SUGGEST YOU CLICK THE FOLLOWING LINK. http://townhall.com/columnists/starparker/2009/02/09/back_on_uncle_sams_plantation/page/full/
      THIS IS WRITTEN BY A BLACK LADY, STAR PARKER, WHO HAS MORE INSIGHT INTO THE BLACK PROBLEM AND SAFETY NETS THAN MS. Melissa Harris-Perry, WHO IN MY OPINION IS IN THE SAME BOAT AS WILD MAN CHRIS MATTHEWS.

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    • JohnGalt1972
      Posted on September 2, 2012 at 8:13pm

      This conversation went off the rails at (2:30) when the gentleman speaks of Democracy… WE ARE NOT A DEMOCRACY!!! If the left didn’t have such contempt for the founders, they could read their quotes on this topic. They were very clear on this subject because they had studied every Democracy in recorded history and saw that they all “murdered themselves!”

      Our Founding Fathers and others speak out:

      Benjamin Franklin: When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.

      John Adams: Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.

      Thomas Jefferson: A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where 51% of the people may take away the rights of the other 49%.

      James Madison: Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their death.

      Thomas Jefferson: The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.

      Benjamin Franklin (maybe): Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.

      James Madison: Democracy was the right of the people to choose their own tyrant.

      John Marshall: Between a balanced republic and a d

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    • Rick Steele
      Posted on September 2, 2012 at 8:28pm

      Poor in the U.S. vs Poor in the rest of the world: The following are facts about persons defined as “poor” by the Census Bureau, taken from various government reports:

      Forty-three percent of all poor households actually own their own homes. The average home owned by persons classified as poor by the Census Bureau is a three-bedroom house with one-and-a-half baths, a garage, and a porch or patio.

      Eighty percent of poor households have air conditioning. By contrast, in 1970, only 36 percent of the entire U.S. population enjoyed air conditioning.

      Only 6 percent of poor households are overcrowded. More than two-thirds have more than two rooms per person.

      The average poor American has more living space than the average individual living in Paris, London, Vienna, Athens, and other cities throughout Europe. (These comparisons are to the average citizens in foreign countries, not to those classified as poor.)

      Nearly three-quarters of poor households own a car; 31 percent own two or more cars.
      Ninety-seven percent of poor households have a color television; over half own two or more color televisions.

      Seventy-eight percent have a VCR or DVD player; 62 percent have cable or satellite TV reception.
      Eighty-nine percent own microwave ovens, more than half have a stereo, and more than a third have an automatic dishwasher.

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    • sophillyjimmy
      Posted on September 2, 2012 at 8:40pm

      This character Melissa Harris-Perry whoever she is, has the gall to insinuate that the poor in her neighborhood is caused by America, but she doesn’t admit that the poor in her neighborhood had the same opportunities to go to the same schools as the middle class, but she fails to mention that education begins at home and that these so called poor would rather get their drink on, have their nails done a few times a week, pay upwards of $300 dollars to have their hair braided like she had done in her photo above, sit with their children while they are doing their homework instead of not knowing where their children are after 10 pm, don‘t know or don’t care if their children are hanging with the wrong crowd. She mentions people being shot on her street corner but fails to mention that it is black on black crime that is causing these shootings which takes more black males lives then any disease and that it is now an epidemic in the black neighborhoods. She also fails to mention that the middle class has decreased in the last 3 and 3/4 years and are now becoming invisable because of the programs and agenda’s of Obama who wants most of America on welfare, Obamacare and food stamps so his form of government could control We The People.
      Sorry Melissa, but this is what America gets for voting a Communist into the White House and if you voted for Obama in 08 you are not a part of the solution but a direct cause of the problem, and you know it as well as I that you will vote Obam

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    • dfissell
      Posted on September 2, 2012 at 9:01pm

      try being christian or Jewish in Iran try being poor in Africa or India or living in Russia

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    • Emrys
      Posted on September 3, 2012 at 2:57am

      She’s either confused or an idiot, and I’m not sure which. People say that wealthy people TOOK A RISK and got where they are. That’s not the same as saying that being rich is RISKY. I’ve never heard anyone say such a thing, so she’s either lying or stupid or both.

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    • The Jewish Avenger
      Posted on September 3, 2012 at 9:50am

      @Chinishque

      Wait poor people actually live like this?

      I cant even afford to live like that LOL

      But that’s the irony of it….
      For 2012 An average household income of just under 50k a year now. (Shrinking actually but about 46-47k+)

      25% is gone for insurance and the governments share)
      Remaining 37,500
      BUDGET: LOW HIGH
      House 6000 7200
      Fuel 2400 5400
      Util. 3600 6000
      Prop Tax 1000 4000
      Car Payment 3600 8400
      Food 9000 18000
      Gas+Extras 6000 6000
      Maintence 3600 3600
      School 30 50
      35230 58650

      37500 – 35230 = 2270
      /12 = 189.16
      /4.333 = 43.66 a week

      And thats if its the low end…
      Who is going out to eat? Who is going on vacations? Who is living it up?

      Now lets look at the welfare leechs:
      Free Rent, Free Heat, Free Lights, Free Food, Free Car, Free Maintence, Free HealthCare, Free Transportation, Free Attorneys
      Total remaining every month, none, Why? they spend it all on concert tickets, drugs, going out to bars (when was the last time you could afford to go out for drinks and dancing?) and clothes for themselves while their kids starve in a corner wearing salvation army rags waiting for the state to call them back to take a look at them, see them “struggling” and get more handouts.

      The thought that these freeloaders get so much for doing nothing is truly frustrating

      Food Cost
      Family of 5 Food wise (USDA standards See:http://www.cnpp.usda.gov/Publications/FoodPlans/2012/CostofFoodJa

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    • nanblan
      Posted on September 3, 2012 at 9:59am

      This woman‘s frustration is only due to her own undeniable and extreme left ideology and the fact that she can’t stand to lose control of an argument for even a second.
      And this is what MSNBC considers a “journalist?” Better send her off to a non-Ivy League, conservative college that would actually teach her the basics of ethical journalism, including objective rather than opinionated reporting using the five W’s, and reporting that is backed up by reliable sources. These appear to be lessons she somehow missed as a student of journalism. I would bet, however, that she’s quite content with continuing to spew her extremely intolerant, hateful, deceitful, and unethical talking points and rhetoric.
      Again, however, she’s a prime example of what MSM considers a “legitimate” journalist, along with Chris Matthews, Rachel Mattock, Rev. Al Sharpton, Ed Schultz, etc. There are even more posing as responsible professionals on every one of the other MSM outlets. It’s a shame.

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    • GaryAA
      Posted on September 3, 2012 at 2:04pm

      Agreed, off topic. However, the subtle hint of the class and race card is obvious. In short, simply more deception and distortions.

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    • GaryAA
      Posted on September 3, 2012 at 2:17pm

      Much of what you hear from liberals is race baiting. Smudging the facts, engaging in smears and calculated, racial innuendo’s are the hall-marks for many liberals. In short, a leader without leadership and a party without solutions is intent on shameless, bloviating on race. One question need be asked. Will liberal, tittle-tattle regarding race distort from the real issues and substance?

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    • HumbleMan
      Posted on September 3, 2012 at 2:19pm

      What idiots. They clearly don’t understand the meaning of the word “risk”.

      Libs always want to suppress behavior with tax/penalty. They know if you raise taxes on tanning salons, you will have less of it. If you raise taxes on cigarettes, people will smoke less. And they also subsidize to re-enforce behavior so they subsidize green energy to get more of it. They give rebates on high-mileage cars to get more of them on the road.

      So why are they surprised when subsidizing the poor results in more poor people, and increasing taxes on businesses results in less business. The failure to grasp reality is a liberal disease.

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    • HumbleMan
      Posted on September 3, 2012 at 2:44pm

      @JZS “intelligent”? … give me a break. I have news for you JZS: people who think like you are the extremists and no matter how many times you try to say it isn’t so it will remain the truth.

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    • boyd9
      Posted on September 3, 2012 at 3:02pm

      This is the most ridiculous claim I have ever heard. Most of us do not like welfare because it is NOT EFFECTIVE. It is actually destructive not constructive. Instead of helping people learn to take care of themselves it turns them into dependent unproductive citizens. BSNBC can do all the misinformation campaigns they want but most of us are figuring this out on there own. We should help them out of poverty NOT CAUSE THEM TO BECOME UNABLE TO TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES.
      If Welfare actually worked the program would virtually eliminate itself over time. The fact that it continues to grow is factual evidence that this program is a failure. We have a safety net, it is in fact a net that traps people, it doesn’t produce upward mobility.
      We need to change the voting requirements in a way that would make it impossible for these progressives to exploit the poor by purchasing their votes. Any person who receives entitlements (SSI and medicare are not entitlements) for more than 6 months during an election year should be unable to vote. this will cause a furor by the progressives, but it is necessary to deny corrupt politicians the opportunity to exploit the poor. Think of the benefits to the poor and to society as a whole if politicians were REQUIRED to help people become productive citizens in order to earn their vote.

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  • Aceofshades
    Posted on September 1, 2012 at 6:47pm

    Living in North Korea, Cuba.. Uh, Trashganastan. Having a speech impediment and making a dumb accusation

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    • Lord_Frostwind
      Posted on September 1, 2012 at 7:13pm

      Ask the people of Afghanistan what happens when a woman runs her mouth, or if they decide to have a party where dancing is involved.

      American and European poor, you’ve got it a lot better than 90% of the world. Be grateful.

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    • 22AUTOMATIC
      Posted on September 1, 2012 at 8:55pm

      Just watched the clip, grabbed a pen, and marked down each time someone on the panel lied. The clip was just over 10 minutes in length and the number of times someone lied was 24 times. So, in just 10 minutes these folks managed to tell a lie every 25 seconds. Everyone on the panel except Monica told at least two lies. So if you take that average and stretch it over a 12 hour period that would be 1,800 LIES EVERY TWELVE HOURS ON MSNBC! (not counting commericals). That is why their viewership is in the tank and they came in last place in ratings during the RNC convention. Also, Melissa Harris-Perry makes $750,000 for MSNBC and $200,000 as a professor ($950.000 total) and does not live in a bad neighborhood as she claims. She lives in a wealthy community. How much does she PERSONALLY give the poor in time and donations? About the same as Biden and Gore (less than 1%). So, if judged by the Ten Commandments, she’s a lying – Blasphemer – murderer (Jesus said to hate is committing murder in your heart) and that’s only three of the ten commandments. I don’t hate her but she does trigger a mean migraine.

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    • DesertRose1960
      Posted on September 1, 2012 at 11:06pm

      @22 automatic, Funny, for someone who is so concerned with the truth, why did you lie? Or do you consider anyone who has informantion you don‘t have or don’t agree with to be lying? Now, who did she kill and what has she said that allows you to say she is a blasphemer and a murderer. Doesn‘t the Bible tell us not to judge people and isn’t one of the Commandments not to bear false witness? Pony up with the proof of her crimes or recant.

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    • 22AUTOMATIC
      Posted on September 2, 2012 at 1:32am

      Hello Rose. First, it is spelled “information.” But I will let that one slide because we love you. Secondly, to “lie” and to “bear false witness” is the same thing (see the Bible). Third, you may be correct that a portion of the panel’s lies could have been ignorance and not dishonesty. However, if you type in each panelist‘s name and view their history you’ll find they repeat the same lies over and over. Why? Look up Sal Alinsky‘s rules or Paul Joseph Goebbels’ quotes. As for “murder” I suggest you revisit my original message. Jesus said that to “hate” is to commit murder already in your heart. I know Perry’s track record of hate and racism, I‘ve watched the videos and I’ve researched the articles. Hearing her on tape using blasphemy (which is using God, the one who gave her life, as a cuss word) is another violation of the Ten Commandments. You are correct to say we should not judge, however, God intended the Ten Commandments to act as a “mirror” so we can see why we need Jesus as our Lord and Savior. Since I have only a few characters left, passages (4-1)(4-7)(6-5)(7:1-5)(8:8-9)(9-1) of yours need to be corrected. You do not sound like an evil person so I’ll assume ignorance. If you can get over 95% on accuracy (I’m being generous), I’ll welcome you to the big leagues. In the mean time………
      http://www.youtube.com/user/Battlefield315

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    • Hugh Akston II
      Posted on September 2, 2012 at 7:21am

      Rich equals working to provide for your self. Face it the poor in America choose to be poor. The “safety net” she refers to strangles the American dream out of the poor and and renders those in it parasites.

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  • Whats up with that
    Posted on September 1, 2012 at 6:43pm

    Um…Being poor in 3rd world country is worse you dumb angry B…Majority of our poor have cell phones and TV’s…You really want us to believe with your salary that you live in da hood and people are getting shot on your corner?…Give all of us a break…You and Soledad O’brien can go lick each other…

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    • seeker9
      Posted on September 1, 2012 at 7:56pm

      With her salary and living in the hood like she said, she is a huge risk taker.
      I just hate that argument that going to a store and making a purchase is equivalent to building a business. It just really boggles my mind.

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    • Twobyfour
      Posted on September 1, 2012 at 8:03pm

      Back in my old country (commie) I think it was early 70;s and they played this US flick Station WUSA. It was a supposed o be a social commentary of sorts. So this reporter interviewed a welfare mother, with a check list sheet to checkmark her appliances and possessions. Stereo, color TV, large fridge, a few years old car…. when someone from the audience shouted: “I want to be poor in America!”

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    • LaughinWillow
      Posted on September 2, 2012 at 1:10am

      Sad that your gauge for standard of living is possession of electronic scrap produced in a third world country that tortures people. Oops, sorry, guess I’m not supposed to mention that.

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    • michael48
      Posted on September 2, 2012 at 12:04pm

      willow..what are you using right now to spew your agenda driven crap???…where’s it from, who made it, is it a third world object with blood dripping on your carpeted floors????..hypocrite at best….“envy” agendas provide NOTHING but envy ….

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  • Gums
    Posted on September 1, 2012 at 6:42pm

    The frustration of a leftist is never ending. They will never reach the Utopia they create in their minds so they get angry and find someone else to blame. It won’t be enough to tax the rich. It won’t be enough to tax the rich at 100% and abolish wealth because when that is complete their Utopia will be worse, so they need another scapegoat. This is the mind of a genocidal maniac. First it was the monarchy, then the Christians, then the Landowners… Marxism is essentially everlasting revolution. He said so himself.

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  • BurntHills
    Posted on September 1, 2012 at 6:41pm

    she should try being a pro-Israel pro-America white Christian if she wants to know what RISK is. we saw an older lady in walmart suddenly get spit on by a suddenly ranting fugly fat blonde obamademocrat shemale —because the older lady had a “Government didn’t build my business, I DID” pro-Romney tshirt on. the gracious older victim [she had a RESTORING LOVE bracelet on] just walked away. we tell ya, obama has severely incited his mindless followers to near-violence in their hatred and panic.

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  • DomingoCafe
    Posted on September 1, 2012 at 6:39pm

    Survey says, “Being a black conservative!”

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    • randy
      Posted on September 1, 2012 at 6:51pm

      Being a white christian conservative male small business owner.

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    • Donald
      Posted on September 1, 2012 at 6:54pm

      Very Accurate
      Although the recent attack was on Ma Love
      All conservative women are attacked

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  • Bob_R_OathKeeper
    Posted on September 1, 2012 at 6:39pm

    She should spit out Obama before she runs that mouth of hers.

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    • Popp40
      Posted on September 1, 2012 at 11:55pm

      LOL… maybe then she wouldn’t have that lips when she talks as well.

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  • RANGER1965
    Posted on September 1, 2012 at 6:38pm

    It is dangerous being poor. If someone is poor despite doing all the right things, and working hard; (yes it happens), then that person has my sympathy, and if I encounter such a person I have no problem giving them a leg up.

    My problem is that the vast majority of the poor are in this position because of conscious decisions they made. Usually many poor decisions over many years. Welfare to them is not a leg up until they can get on their feet and moving again. Welfare is simply a paycheck which they believe is deserved because being poor sucks, and it’s hard.

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    • justangry
      Posted on September 1, 2012 at 6:52pm

      Pretty much. Seems to me the only poor in this country that did the right things, but failed have medical problems that eat them alive, or prevent them from working. Drugs and stupidity seem to be the catalyst for many in that situation.

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    • firemaker
      Posted on September 1, 2012 at 7:35pm

      The poor in America have it great by world standards. I have been to Europe, middle east, Asia, and a lot of countries most people have only seen on TV and in those countries people who are poor often wonder where their next meal, bowl of rice, clean drinking water is coming from. They work for pennies and are glad to have it. Our poor get food, medical treatment, housing a cell phone. Our poor are rich to these people.

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  • Renthal
    Posted on September 1, 2012 at 6:38pm

    I tried watching this person this morning. Her comments were so racist. Blaming previous presidential candidates for some dog whistle BS. She is in the tank for Obama and hates white people

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    • Wilma
      Posted on September 1, 2012 at 6:55pm

      This morning Chris Hayes on MSNBC said Clint Eastwood was referring to “whites” when he said, “We own this country.” Incredible.

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    • barber2
      Posted on September 1, 2012 at 6:58pm

      The hate. The anger. The desire for revenge. This administration has really set back race relations in this country . By playing the Race Card. Playing the Discrimination Card. By Playing the Rich versus Poor Card. Very sad. As he could have done such great things for unifying the races . Guess the fact that Obama did not like traditional American values negated that possibility. Too much Marxism and too little patriotism in his up bring. When you study his parents/ grandparents and the mentors they provided him, one can certainly understand WHAT Obama believes and WHY he believes it.

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    • karencole
      Posted on September 1, 2012 at 7:28pm

      Thank you Monica, the ONLY voice of sanity in that room! I love the look on her face when Melissa was going off the rails….too funny. And, I would love to know if people are really shot right down the street from her house….somehow I doubt it. I think her and Chris should have a night out together.

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    • Val_Dragon
      Posted on September 1, 2012 at 9:22pm

      If Obama controls healthcare in an aging society then he effectively control its death rate.  If he controls the death rate then he can effectively control the amount of revenue collected as a result of the death tax (the federal estate tax).  This is a tax that is assessed on the value of all of your assets upon your death including your house, cars, furniture, business property, machinery and inventory, stocks, bonds and real estate.  This is a big part of his hidden agenda.  This is the pot of gold Obama is after.  
      In 2013, the exemption drops from $5 million to $1 million.  Under an Obama 2nd term that exemption will fall much further and the death tax rate will climb enormously.  This is how he is going to “spread the wealth around”.  

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  • OlefromMN
    Posted on September 1, 2012 at 6:38pm

    ” I live in a neighborhood where people are shot on my street corner. I live in a neighborhood where people have to figure out how to get their kid into school because maybe it will be a good school and maybe it won’t. ”

    A couple of items… First, how can the thugs afford a gun if they are poor? It sounds like misplaced priorities to me. Next, the public screwel system is what we have been complaining about forever. The teachers unions have placed themselves on a higher plane than the students. It’s is bound to fail.

    Suck it up buttercup and take responsibility on your own. There is too much evidence to suggest that government is the problem and not the solution.

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    • SingerGuy
      Posted on September 1, 2012 at 7:26pm

      I want someone to do a fact check on exactly where she lives. We just got through hearing Chris Matthews say he drives through D.C. at 6:30 every morning watching black people go to work, but he actually lives in Chevy Chase, MD (which is almost entirely rich and white) and doesn’t get into D.C. until the crack of noon. How much you wanna bet this woman lives nowhere near the neighborhood she just described and that it’s all a “story for effect,” just like Mr. Matthews?

      http://dailycaller.com/2012/08/30/msnbcs-matthews-falsely-claims-living-in-black-majority-dc/

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  • Eblaze44
    Posted on September 1, 2012 at 6:36pm

    and she is a “hostess” not a host. A hostess is a female host – rather gender specific – unless she’s a transvestite – perhaps?

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  • Gums
    Posted on September 1, 2012 at 6:35pm

    Yes Melissa Harris is gangster. I’m sure people get shot every day in her lily white upper class neighborhood.

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    • crackerone
      Posted on September 1, 2012 at 7:29pm

      Yrs, we need a fact-check please!

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    • DesertRose1960
      Posted on September 1, 2012 at 10:58pm

      She lives in New Orleans. She just lost a house that she bought in the 9th Ward, the one hardest hit by Katrina. The house had been gutted and the back wall was missing. She was planning on restoring it because it had been a blight on the neighborhood and a scene of crimes. Hurricane Isaac destroyed the house. She lives in a house she restored with her husband of two years. The house is a sidehall shotgun, a common building type in New Orleans. Zillow values the house at $130,000. Here’s a link to an article about restoring this very small house. The larger one that was destroyed this week was supposed to be their next project. She is living in a 7th Ward neighborhood that seems to be racially mixed. By the way, Professor Harris-Perry is the daughter of a White woman and a Black father who was a college Professor.

      http://www.nola.com/homegarden/index.ssf/2012/04/melissa_harris-perry_and_james.html

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  • Eblaze44
    Posted on September 1, 2012 at 6:34pm

    I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.
    - Benjamin Franklin

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    • TreeTrimmerJim
      Posted on September 2, 2012 at 11:49pm

      “I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.” ~ Ben Franklin

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  • Kathleen3
    Posted on September 1, 2012 at 6:34pm

    Does George Soros audition and hire the people who host shows on CNN and MSNBC? Every day I am more and more convinced he does.

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    • DIR
      Posted on September 2, 2012 at 9:04pm

      I don’t know if George auditions people for the left wing news channels, but I do know Melissa will be up for an academy award nomination for her performance. The concern, the heart felt worry she showed for the poor. The only thing missing were the phony tears. Melissa is correct, being poor is risky, but then being alive is risky. Getting in a car and driving around town is risky. However, there‘s nothing riskier than being in a room with Melissa after she’s eaten a bean burrito at Chipolte. If the blast don’t kill you, the pyroclastic cloud of super heated gas and accompanying stench will. My question is what has Melissa done to help the poor. Does she give them shelter, feed them, help them in any way, or is her rant just a load of Melissa.

      Someone who has her address needs to make it public with the open invitation to ‘pan handlers’ all across the nation to send her cash requests in order that she may send them western union money grams and food packages. I‘m sure she’d be thankful. I know she can’t wait to really help, though so far it appears all she’s done is feed everyone a load of crap.

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  • Maxim Crux
    Posted on September 1, 2012 at 6:33pm

    She is right, there is a real risk of living a life based solely on Welfare, food stamps and Nike tennis shoes. The government may not always be there to provide for that…especially if they keep making policies that destroy those who pay the taxes

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  • justangry
    Posted on September 1, 2012 at 6:33pm

    I’d rather be American poor compared to African poor any day of the week.

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    • football lady
      Posted on September 1, 2012 at 6:48pm

      Exactly!

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    • Inlightofthings
      Posted on September 2, 2012 at 12:39am

      That’s interesting JUST. I’ve been thinking the whole agenda is making us more like the world populations in earnings, lifestyles and quality of life. Our poorest I believe, are 99%’ers on the global scale.

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    • Inlightofthings
      Posted on September 2, 2012 at 12:40am

      Strike that 99%…Our poorest are 1%’ers on a global scale….

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  • Toltepeceno
    Posted on September 1, 2012 at 6:33pm

    She needs to get out of the US and see the rest of the world, really an ignorant comment.

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    • BurntHills
      Posted on September 1, 2012 at 6:49pm

      she needs to go stand on a Chicago streetcorner. see if she lasts 5 minutes with those obama voters. we thought it was risky just living in Chicago. oh wait, you can’t say the name ”Chicago” anymore, they said it’s a new racist code word. well, since we were from there, wasn’t the original term hmm, what did those Southside parochial school nuns teach us, oh yeah, the original name meant ”BIG STINK”. yeah, it fits.

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    • Val_Dragon
      Posted on September 1, 2012 at 9:27pm

      Barack Obama = Food Stamp President

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  • progressiveslayer
    Posted on September 1, 2012 at 6:32pm

    I”ll tell you what’s riskier,trying to start a business when your fraud president is a Marxist POS who has a war on capitalism.People are poor in America in large part because the democrat party has told the black community you aren’t smart enough to succeed on your own so you need government to support you.The high crime rate in the inner city is also because the federal government requires black families to be broken up to receive unconstitutional welfare.

    I suspect the poor in Calcutta is quite different than the poor in America.

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    • justangry
      Posted on September 1, 2012 at 6:54pm

      LOL yeah. Catching cobras for anti venom for enough cash to buy rat curry. I‘d say that’s much different than sitting at an intersection with a sign and a tin cup.

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    • Thevoice
      Posted on September 1, 2012 at 7:02pm

      I couldn’t agree more …A “New age progressive communist” such as a Obama needs that “poor” group ..That is his base…Letting them free of the government dependency …means he will loose his base…A modern Communist like a Obama whats to achieve his central government control with human and business rules, regulations ..Instead of using machine guns and ditches His idea of putting a damper to capitalism, and the free spirit of the individual is in full swing..You look at those blighted areas and you see the effects of their plan ..These “New age Progressive communists” like a Obama today want the stop of growth ..They want people to be forced to into urban areas and controlled, and regulated …Our economic engine today is running at idle because of this ….Obama and the communist that flew in the door with him need to go come November …

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  • WindyDualism
    Posted on September 1, 2012 at 6:32pm

    Risky is being a drunk metrosexual at the dnc without protection. What the hell is risky about foodstamps, govt housing, govt internet, govt phones, and govt media?

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  • Thevoice
    Posted on September 1, 2012 at 6:32pm

    If you are going to take the chance of jumping into a “Government” safety net …Chances are you will fall through …The one we have gone broke over the past 60 years creating still can’t stop the “poor” from falling through ….

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  • Donald
    Posted on September 1, 2012 at 6:31pm

    I am thinking anyone who lives in a country where Liberty and Free Speech are not free.

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  • KickinBack
    Posted on September 1, 2012 at 6:31pm

    Sooo much anger.

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    • Want our country back
      Posted on September 1, 2012 at 6:45pm

      I live in a neighborhood where people are shot on my street corner. I live in a neighborhood where people have to figure out how to get their kid into school because maybe it will be a good school and maybe it won’t. I am sick of the idea that being wealthy is risky. No! …Being poor is what is risky!
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      MSNBC can’t afford to pay her well enough to get out of that neighborhood. WAR ON WOMAN….. These drama queens are phoney. Didn’t some other anchor have a fake breakdown to make a stupid point. These woman are an insult.

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    • BlessedGirls2
      Posted on September 3, 2012 at 4:51pm

      She is not angry she is frustrated ..don’t confuse the two!

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  • football lady
    Posted on September 1, 2012 at 6:30pm

    Umm, you’d think she was a blond.

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  • Tri-ox
    Posted on September 1, 2012 at 6:30pm

    Melissa, Sweetie, shut up and sit down.

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  • scrudge
    Posted on September 1, 2012 at 6:26pm

    Ah Yes…. mam talk to your bros. and sisters on why they shoot each other… you won’t get a answer from them…

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    • Thevoice
      Posted on September 1, 2012 at 6:48pm

      There is only one way to bring prosperity and growth back to this country …The endless reams of Local, State, and Federal human and business controls and regulations would have to be either shredded or burned ..That is the problem in a nut shell…You can’t pay teachers, fireman, policemen, state and federal workers close or over a hundred thousand a year ..and at the same time stop the free spirit of the rest of the population who is supporting it from doing and creating whatever they want ..It is crushing the economic engine of a free people . America was built because you could have a idea or desire to do something and go kick up some dust ..Today that is totally stifled …If Romney ..And I believe he is smart enough in business to see this …In six months this economy would be on fire …Enough of the commie pick and choose and government involved in corporate subsidies… Enough …Being a Republic ment the good common sense of man who has his freedom and liberity protected by government will prosper…Has today been turned inside out to protect special intrests …From frogs to nats ….And along with it our prosperity growth inovation and next will come our freedom…If someone isn’t smart enough and has the balls to say enough … If you don’t like my noise, dust, smoke to bad …get the hell out of my way ..We will soon be put into the box the “New age progressive commie” wants ..That being it has to come from grovernment …They has pushed real hard for thi

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  • pakaeboiboi
    Posted on September 2, 2012 at 4:28pm

    Sorry, explanation due here ….. the Rosetta Code Stone was just recently discovered in Cairo during the “Arab Spring” when protestors where digging up the streets cobbled stones to throw at security forces …..

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  • Tmiller
    Posted on September 3, 2012 at 4:18pm

    Just want to say thank you for reminding me why I don’t watch msnbc EVER

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