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Topic: The bottom 20%

-Espiritu- Posts: 10,404 Registered: Nov 29, '04 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 9,216 User ID: 999,377	Subject: The bottom 20%
	1979 = received 54% of government transfer payments 2007 = received 36% of government transfer payments This is pre-Obamacare, which will drive this down even further. If you are wondering who really suffers by all the new folks receiving entitlements, just look at the people who need them the most. The expansion of entitlements will ultimately lead to the demise of the safety net that our country has championed for the last 60-70 years. -----signature----- Espiritu - SWTOR (retired) Espiritu (MajorMUD, UO, DAoC, SB, FFXI, WoW, WAR, Travian, SC2, SWTOR)
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Yukishiro1 Posts: 38,362 Registered: Sep 20, '02 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 31,453 User ID: 718,633	Subject: The bottom 20%
	When I made this post a few weeks ago I got flamed by a lot of right-wingers. P.S. The other way to read those numbers, though, is that it's not only the bottom 20% that needs help now. We have moved to such a divided economy that the whole bottom 50%ish is not making it on their own at a standard of living people have come to expect Americans will have. -----signature----- (none)
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reesescups Title: //Captain America Posts: 47,567 Registered: May 26, '03 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 40,845 User ID: 805,977	Subject: The bottom 20%
	Yukishiro1 posted: When I made this post a few weeks ago I got flamed by a lot of right-wingers. Took them awhile to come up with some spin control... -----signature----- "man up, you wimp." - Groucho48 "I'm not racist at all." - dae_trist
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