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in_cog_ni_to Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-03-07 05:11 PM
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Bernie Sanders on Senate floor NOW...C-SPAN 2 "U.S. has highest rate of poverty than any other
country." :grr:

HOW SHAMEFUL! The Greatest country on earth, eh?
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alcibiades_mystery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-03-07 05:13 PM
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1. highest than, huh?
:evilgrin:
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SharonAnn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-03-07 05:26 PM
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6. Highest of Industrialized, "First World" countries, perhaps?
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berni_mccoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-04-07 08:28 AM
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14. It would have to be of Industrialized Nations.
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LSparkle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-03-07 05:13 PM
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2. We need 99 more like him in the Senate
and 500+ in the House. A true patriot.
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cali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-04-07 08:11 AM
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Thanks, but I'll keep both my Senators
Bernie and Pat. And there are only 435 reps in the House.
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leftist_not_liberal Donating Member (408 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-04-07 11:17 PM
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20. Which at least tacitly violates the constitutionally required apportionment
Edited on Tue Dec-04-07 11:21 PM by leftist_not_liberal
but yeah.

Some house districts are over twice the size of others. Representation of the people is thus uneven and, as we have seen multiple times, the electoral college does not represent the actual vote.

It's fucked up. And the millionaire club in the beltway likes it thataway.
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in_cog_ni_to Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-03-07 05:13 PM
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3. 5 MILLION Americans have fallen into poverty since the psycho stole the 2000 election.
:cry:
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bdamomma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-04-07 08:33 AM
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15. disgusting and shameful
that is what exactly he is a psycho, who is totally unfit to hold this office.
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fascisthunter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-03-07 05:13 PM
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4. "The Greatest country on earth"
the Soviet government said the same thing to its people, and some of them repeated that lie too.
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flashl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-03-07 05:24 PM
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5. If we have the highest poverty rate now. What will be our standing after the economy crash
Third World?
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TalkingDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-04-07 10:44 AM
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18. The Spousal Unit predicts:
in that eventuality (collapse and depression), we will fall to 4th or 5th in world standing. Not quite 3rd World, but low enough to get wedgies on a semi-regular basis.

He has better game theory and political skilz, very "through-time" and so good at long range planning and projections.

Me, I'm "in-time". Past, present or future, it's always happening NOW, so I've been stocking up for many a rainy (or drought-y) day.



My Favorite Master Artist: Karen Parker GhostWoman Studios
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bobbolink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-03-07 05:37 PM
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7. Thank you for speaking for me, Bernie!!
I thought we had all been forgotten.

Keep reminding people that we exist, please Bernie!

:applause:
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LSparkle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-03-07 05:38 PM
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8. That was a great speech
Too bad more people probably weren't listening. It really was a rallying cry to save the "American dream" from the greedy multinational corporations. (I loved that he mentioned Jeff Imelt by name!)
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bobbolink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-03-07 06:11 PM
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9. Isn't poverty worth enough Recs for the greatest page?
C'mon, DUers, let's demonstrate that DU can care about poverty.
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Uncle Joe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-03-07 06:31 PM
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10. Kicked and recommended for the truth.
Thanks for the thread, in_cog_ni_to
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GeneCosta Donating Member (190 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-04-07 08:05 AM
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11. k&r
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Freddie Stubbs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-04-07 08:10 AM
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12. Higher than Mexico?
Those poor, deluded immigrants, thinking that there is more opportunity here.
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AngryAmish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-04-07 10:45 AM
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19. If we could only get to same level as Equitorial Guinea,
then we would really prosper.
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progressoid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-04-07 08:11 AM
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13. It 'would' be the greatest country on earth if some of the slackers would pull themselves up by
bootstraps.

It's simple, just get three or four part-time minimum wage jobs.
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Ravy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-04-07 09:38 AM
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16. That doesn't sound correct. Anyone find any links to that effect? nt
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Ravy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-04-07 09:43 AM
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17. Here are some links to the contrary. Not even close.
Edited on Tue Dec-04-07 09:44 AM by Ravy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_the_United_States

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

Either he misspoke or was misquoted or is using some other measure.
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