“The poor by choice wants it all for himself and the things he wants. He loves handouts and he thinks the world owes him. Sure,fraud in the eyes of some does little to hurt our economy;but,a little leaven,leavens the whole bread. One bad apple ruins the whole barrel. We need a good house cleaning in this country.”

I could substitute Jew, or Black or any other minority for poor, your statement is right out of language used by nazis to demonize Jews.

Go tell this to laid off coal miners in West Virginia, or to the laid off DHL workers in Wilmington, Ohio.

It’s not that black and white and for you to make it so speaks volumes about you more than the poor who you seem to like to use as your whipping post.

Where I live I don’t see this at all. The poor are in pretty bad shape and the working poor are sinking lower and lower.

The amount of money the welfare frauds get is pretty small compared to what we give away in tax breaks and incentives ot large corporations.

I am tired of working hard and seeing my hard earned tax money going to so many people who abuse the system. I give to the poor by circumstance without a thought, but the number of abusers is growing and growing and growing. A melting pot can only hold so much! The truly poor need our help the other poor needs to be taught a lesson.

What’s fair?

Speaking of Guests. How about bringing Elisabeth Warren…. again and again and again.

She is the only and lonely voice out there who is telling us the Truth.

Let’s ask her how we can “Make” the Mortgage Servicing outfits who have bet on Failures and Foreclosures by colluding with Red Zoning Mortgage Thiefs, postpone payments or entirely be kept out of the Contract Negotiations…. instead of Bribing them

Will anybody lose a tear, if they go out of business?

It is not Tom. It is the Producer. Actually it is not the Producer. Certain Corporate Donors (they have seats in the Executive Committee/Board) they donate “some” money in and then they control the direction of the entire Station with strings attached.

Trust me, I saw some of these Characters during the meetings. Please come and “make noise” in April. If you don’t make noise in person, they will just ignore us.

I know it is sickening to hear from the same jerks who put us in this position with the hope to show us the direction about how to get out. NO THEY WILL NOT.

LET’S PUT THEM OUT OF BUSINESS.

Republicans led by Rush continually push this falsehood about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that they tried to get reform, but were shot down by a Democratic filibuster. The problem is, there’s a regularly published document known as the Congressional Record that tells everyone what really happened. Republicans were in charge of both houses of Congress, and did not bring the bill to a vote. They simply let it die. Democrats did not filibuster; they never had the opportunity because the Republicans didn’t see the bill as being important enough to be advanced. As Paul Harvey used to say: “Now, you know the rest of the story.”

One other thing that drives me crazy is when the host allows a guest to make multiple statements about what horrors they think are going to happen in the future as a result of some bill passing or some decision by the government. Then, the host asks them a “what if” type of question that the guest doesn’t want to answer, and they let them answer, “I don’t deal in conjecture!” What do you think they dealing in when they forecast gloom and doom! How do you let people get away with this?

It is difficult to dispute the fact that the dominance of Reagan-esque economic theory over the last thirty years has had a primarily negative impact on the economy of this country. During this time, the rich got richer (obscenely so) while very little trickled down to the middle and lower classes. Wage growth for these people stagnated while compensation for the very wealthiest skyrocketed. There are charts documenting how the ratio of CEO compensation to the average worker in his company has gone way up over the last 30 years.

The following statistic that one of the guests cited really stood out for me: between 2000 and 2006, 70% – yes, 70% – of income growth went to the wealthiest 1%.

And yet to some people, anybody complaining about this or to wanting to rectify this imbalance in wealth is a slacker looking for a handout.

your making me sound like George Baily…

The other thing your quote forgets is if income tips towards to few getting to wealthy more of the population is left out of the wealth then this is fuel for civic unrest and in the worse case revolutions as in the French revolution.

You have generations of people who are chronically poor through the lack of opportunities, good education and health care.

Then there are the working poor how do most of the heavy lifting in our country. Next time you unpack your bag of groceries remember that the chicken, lettuce and that can of tuna was all processed by a very low wage worker making way below a living wage.

Arnold if a CEO makes 200 million a year and the lowest paid worker in the company makes only 15k a year something is wrong. It’s out of balance and it is also a balance that is artificially set. This is what the conservative and republican forget to mention. you guys always want to blame the little guy. The small poor person who is trying to live off the fat of the land.
Well it does not fly with me mister. People deserve a living wage and decent housing as well as good schools and health care. Of course we could all decide to live in the country you want, a country of gated communities with armed guards for those who can afford it and the rest can live in run down trailer parks and slums.

Dr. Adrian’s position is built upon a primary falsehood, which is that “…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…you cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.” The wealth discrepancy in our society is based on the fact that people receive without effort: Not those that receive our poverty imprisoning national alms (welfare), but those that make deals in back rooms, those whose daddy knows the other’s daddy and in so are given jobs they would never get if they had not had that daddy or other such connection. Old money that favors old money and new money that will do anything to be embraced by the old money. They work; yes they work, at social parties and tennis clubs, golf outings, and charity balls. Those with more work less and those that want to be those with more push their slaves to produce more, so they (the CEO) can have more and work less and press the flesh of those they want to become: old money, new world kings.

Now, some in poverty don’t want to work or don’t like to work, what’s the difference. Oh, yes the difference is that those born into privilege that don’t work are called philanthropists and those born into poverty that don’t work are called leaches. Our society judges a person’s value by the amount of their work, but perhaps we should judge the work by its value to society. Is someone that makes bank deals and robs you your future been of benefit or is that a true leach, someone that sucks the blood of its victim slowly, deliberately, so as to keep the victim alive as long as possible and feed, feed, feed. So, I say what destroys a nation: those that feed in big, glutinous portions or those that take the scraps intentionally left by the glutton to keep the scrounger alive long enough to make the next meal.

By: Dr. Adrian Rogers, 1931-2005