Tagged: poverty

Rep. Tim Scott, A Jim DeMint Think-Alike, Appointed South Carolina’s U.S. Senator 0

Rep. Tim Scott, A Jim DeMint Think-Alike, Appointed South Carolina’s U.S. Senator

 [Reader’s note: All in-text hyperlinks in this post (if any) are not links I have attached to the post. They are malware infesting the internet. Don’t click them. They are spam. I’m trying to...

Fat Cats Get Fatter, 2011 CEO Pay Rose 6% To Average $9,600,000. Here’s How Many Poor Families That Paycheck Can “Sponsor” 0

Fat Cats Get Fatter, 2011 CEO Pay Rose 6% To Average $9,600,000. Here’s How Many Poor Families That Paycheck Can “Sponsor”

The new AP/Equilar CEO salary report is out! So, how many poverty stricken families living at the official US Health & Human Services poverty guideline income level can the average CEO salary of 9.6...

California Congressman Pete Stark Calls Mitt Romney’s Bluff On Motherhood As Work: His H.R. 4379 Proposes TANF Amendment 1

California Congressman Pete Stark Calls Mitt Romney’s Bluff On Motherhood As Work: His H.R. 4379 Proposes TANF Amendment

The consequence of having few consistent policy positions sometimes leads to holding utterly opposite opinions on the same issue. As we know, such is Mitt Romney on “working mothers.” He went nuclear after Hilary...

Romney Elevates His Distance With Car Elevator – Here’s His FCQ (Fat-Cat Quotient) 0

Romney Elevates His Distance With Car Elevator – Here’s His FCQ (Fat-Cat Quotient)

Hapless presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, still hurting from his Etch A Sketch moment, once again elevated his image as a cento-millionaire out of touch with average Americans. Dismantling a $750,000 beach house (assessed value)...

Charles Dickens: Happy 200th Birthday! What Would “Oliver Twist” Read Like Today . . .? 0

Charles Dickens: Happy 200th Birthday! What Would “Oliver Twist” Read Like Today . . .?

Charles Dickens: Happy 200th Birthday! What Would “Oliver Twist” Read Like Today . . .?

Sneak Preview: Romney, Gingrich, Santorum, and Paul To Soon Release “Safety Net,” Their First Hip Hop CD 0

Sneak Preview: Romney, Gingrich, Santorum, and Paul To Soon Release “Safety Net,” Their First Hip Hop CD

On February 2, 2012, Mitt Romney told CNN, “I’m not concerned about the very poor; we have a safety net there. If it needs repair, I’ll fix it.”  The new catch phrase caught the eye...

Romney-Speak: Three Even Worse Aspects Of Mitt’s Lack Of Concern About the “Very Poor” 0

Romney-Speak: Three Even Worse Aspects Of Mitt’s Lack Of Concern About the “Very Poor”

In a fit of what can only be viewed as overconfidence after his win in the Florida primary, Mitt Romney accidentally told the truth on CNN this morning:  “I’m not concerned about the very poor,”...

Introducing “The Fat-Cat Quotient.” How Many Poor Families Can Mitt Romney Afford On His 2011 Speaking Fee Income Alone? 1

Introducing “The Fat-Cat Quotient.” How Many Poor Families Can Mitt Romney Afford On His 2011 Speaking Fee Income Alone?

Mitt’s definitely winning the class war.  Based on the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) 2011 Poverty Guidelines, last year, for example, he could have financed as many as 34 families of eight with his 2011 speaking fees income...

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