Warren Buffett said his company benefitted mightily from the GOP tax “reform.”
A $29 Billion plum.
””The $65 billion gain is nonetheless real – rest assured of that. But only $36 billion came from Berkshire’s operations. The remaining $29 billion was delivered to us in December when Congress rewrote the U.S. Tax Code.”
I wonder what the Koch brothers and DeVos family got?
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This is the sickest country in the world where we have people with all this insane amount of money and then they get more of it. The US government should have put a cap in place as far as how much money an individual can accumulate because now these so called billionaires are our ruling government.
What did I get as a NYC teacher? I received a phone call from starving children of america organization asking for a donation to feed our starving children in the US. How is it that these low life creepy people with billions of dollars who claim they care so much about this country – let children starve to death! How is this possible? Am I way off here? Can someone please verify or tell me I am wrong….
Can anyone believe this insane, corrupt society we all have to endure? Billionaires keep piling up the money and the average Joe gets a call to donate money to keep kids from starving to death. At some point, adults are going to have to do what the kids are doing from the parkland high school in florida and that is to kick some ass as these politicians are just as disgusting as crap can be.
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” let children starve to death! How is this possible? Am I way off here? Can someone please verify or tell me I am wrong….”
The cases of child starvation in the USA are almost always due to forced starvation by a caregiver or kidnapper, or when a parent dies leaving a child alone who is too young to fend for him/herself. In a quick search I could not find any reference to a child’s death due to lack of food intake (starvation) not involving the prior mentioned causes.
So, yes, from my brief search you are way off with your statement.
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Duane: This was written in 2014. I believe things have gotten much worse since then. The GOP believes that the lazy people will feel better if they are forced to get jobs. Kids may not be dying (??) but it is affecting their abilities to learn. Nobody can go to school on an empty stomach and listen. School lunches are increasingly un-nutritiious and don’t meet the needs of students.
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States where the most children go hungry
Thomas C. Frohlich, 24/7 Wall St. Published 6:02 a.m. ET April 27, 2014 | Updated 10:51 a.m. ET April 27, 2014
According to a report by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 49 million people in the United States lived in households struggling to find enough food to eat. Nearly 16 million are children, who are far more likely to have limited access to sufficient food than the general population. While 15.9% of Americans lived in food-insecure households, 21.6% of children had uncertain access to food.
Feeding America — the largest hunger relief charity and network of food banks in the U.S. — created Map the Meal Gap, a study measuring food-insecurity among the general population and children at the state and county levels. While hunger remains a problem nationally, some areas of the country had nearly double the national rate. Food-insecurity rates among children were as high as 41% in Zavala County, Texas. At the state level, New Mexico led the nation with 29.2% of children living in food-insecure households.
According to Ross Fraser, Director of Media Relations at Feeding America, children are of course more vulnerable to poverty and food-insecurity because they can’t work. “You have a lot of people with large families who live in poverty, and children can’t change their financial circumstances,” he said.
The situation may also be considerably worse than it seems. Benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) have been sharply reduced since November 2013, after the data for the report was collected. Prior to the cut, 45% of all SNAP beneficiaries were children, according to Feeding America…
Check out this story on USATODAY.com: http://usat.ly/1liWTy9
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Carol,
I have no doubts as to the massive poverty that so many children are caught up in through no fault of their own and probably very little if any fault of their parents as our economic system is such that it produces such poverty as part of its very operation. It doesn’t have to be this way.
I was addressing the commentator’s statement, one that seemed blatantly false to me so I checked a few sources and could not come up with one death due to starvation other than the causes mentioned (that doesn’t mean that there haven’t been any deaths, just that in a quick search I couldn’t find any examples).
Thanks for the link! While what it points out isn’t new to me, I’m sure there are many who don’t realize the extent of poverty and homelessness in this country. Most turn a blind eye to it (mainly through the anesthetizing effects of the media and electronic devices).
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Children in the U.S. might not be dying from starvation due to poverty, but due to poverty and poor lifestyle choices, children are destroying their health explaining the continued increase of children with diabetes, being overweight and being obese.
If all you do is eat or drink easy to buy, cheap sugar and/or fast foods all day long, your body is going to start dying and rot.
So the child doesn’t die of starvation. Instead they suffer from poor health or die from a lifestyle disease.
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Especially considering the “grocery deserts” in the poor neighborhoods. Only junk food (if one can call it food) is available without a huge hassle to get nutritious food.
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And the same corporate mindset that is out to privatize the public schools and turn public dollars into profits for billionaires and millionaires is the same thinking that pushed taht junk food on people by adding chemicals to that fake food that’s designed to turn people into food junkies where they crave food that is slowly killing their bodies and their minds.
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swacker, you did poor research as i did not say they are starving to death i said to prevent them from starving to death
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No sé quien eres. I don’t know who you are since you use at least two names-Starvation and Mo Money but if you can’t understand your own writing, well perhaps it is best not to engage in a discussion with you. But I will.
“How is it that these low life creepy people with billions of dollars who claim they care so much about this country – let children starve to death!”
“Let children starve to death” doesn’t mean that “they are starving to death”??? I don’t see anywhere where you even implied any “prevent(ing) them from starving to death.”
And then to say “you did poor research”??? You’ve got me baffled with that one.
Come back and discuss when you are sober and/or sane, eh!
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I didn’t get that much. I wonder why.
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Probably because you’re not an avaricious SOB.
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I’ll say this for Buffet, he is very upfront about how corrupt and unfair the tax system is. And I think he would support sore real reform. He doesn’t hide like the Waltons, DeVos’, and Kochs
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Buffett is a good guy. The only big mistake he gave was giving his billions to the Gates Foundation for charitable giving.
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No, he is NOT a good guy. He uses almost none of his money to buy the government to make good reforms. He just sits back passively and rides off the coat tails of the plutocrats in Congress who do the dirty work for him while he could he using his power and influence to shape politicians for the real benefit of ordinary people.
He is beholden to his shareholders .
Just because he admits that the system is all wrong does NOT make him a good guy.
Talk is cheap.
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The Koch brothers and DeVos family think they got the United States.
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“The Koch brothers and DeVos family think they got the United States ready for the xtian fundie takeover they so desire.”
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They do.
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Billionaires are evil people who want more for themselves. They don’t think about those who are suffering, and most of the people in the world are suffering. There is poverty in every country and there are mass numbers of people who don’t have decent food nor decent drinking water. How can anyone believe that these billionaires need more money when terrible conditions exist for so many, many people?
They choose to not see the suffering or to believe that those who have less are just not worthy of getting more. It is the evil that exists in humanity. Our Congress has been bought out by the wealthy who will never get enough. Shame on our Congress and on our disgusting, bigoted president who doesn’t see the damage they are doing to this country. Amen to getting rid of the whole lot of them.
Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are decent, except possibly on education matters. But they care about average people and work to make conditions more evenly handled.
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I do not know how much money Dolly Parton has, but her reading program has benefitted millions of kids without taking a dime away from public Ed. We need more rich people who have vision that is not clouded by their own egocentricity. In a free society, rich will come to some people. What we need is a sense of obligation to society on the part of all.
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There’s plenty of noblesse oblige as long as you agree with the donor
s politics and will support him in those politics.
It’s charity with strings attached.
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Teachers: we need to teach about the first Gilded Age and the new Gilded Age. We need to teach about how we got out of the first Gilded Age (the rise of unions? high taxes on the rich?). We need to teach about European countries that put caps on obscene wealth accumulation and spread the wealth more broadly. Are we? Or are we distracted by prepping for ill-conceived reading and math tests? A couple weeks in 11th grade American history is not enough. History cannot be taught well in a rush. Literacy and math are gobbling up kids’ educational lives, to their great detriment. I’m hearing more and more stories of CA K-8 schools that have totally abandoned teaching history, even though they’re legally required to. Principals hide literacy instruction under the label “history class”. Teachers and education leaders –your prejudice against teaching “mere” knowledge (inculcated by our culture and our ed schools over the past 100 years) is so, so, so wrongheaded.
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We Norwegians would be considered evil, dirty, filthy communists here. But you’re right. Americans need to learn from Europe.
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