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    The Wall Street Journal‏Verified account @WSJ Oct 11

    Opinion: Over the last 50 years, federal programs have reduced material poverty at the cost of promoting dependency, write Phil Gramm and John F. Earlyhttps://on.wsj.com/2PuvNrk 

    4:45 PM - 11 Oct 2018
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      1. Anne‏ @minnmomjd Oct 11
        Replying to @WSJ

        It’s only a handout if you’re, like, a regular person. If you’re a giant corporation or a billionaire, it’s your just due.

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      2. LJ Hutchinsuch‏ @Cleft_Music Oct 11
        Replying to @WSJ

        I guess the Wall Street Journal wasn’t around for the bailouts ten years ago for the people who nearly destroyed ours and subsequently the world’s economies.

        1 reply 0 retweets 8 likes
      3. John Metcalf‏ @jymetcalf Oct 11
        Replying to @Cleft_Music @WSJ

        Always money available for the wealthy.

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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      1. Sean‏ @Thy_Loaf Oct 11
        Replying to @WSJ

        Bottom half of American population, in terms of wealth, grew 0% from 1980 to 2016. Top .001% of American's grew 600%. Same time period: Europe .001% grew 83%, bottom half grew 26%. 1980: USA had highest minimum wage, since then min wage down 30%. France raised min wage 300%.

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      2. Republican American‏ @RepAmWatch Oct 11
        Replying to @WSJ

        Which would rather see… a family raised out of poverty but with increased dependence on entitlements, or that family starving to death “independently”?

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      3. D.  🌊‏ @Suphxier Oct 11
        Replying to @RepAmWatch @WSJ

        Imagine a family that had health care, safe schools where teachers were adequately paid, and not shamed for being poor.

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      1. victor yodaiken‏ @vyodaiken Oct 11
        Replying to @WSJ

        Phil Gramm is absolutely right - the weak corporate laws that allowed those associated with Enron to pocket the money and walk away, have created a class of entitled, government dependent, scam artists. Know what I mean, Phil?

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      2. Jay Nice‏ @Jay_Nice_305 Oct 11
        Replying to @WSJ

        F**k him, he helped get rid of the Glass-Steagall Act which cost the working class billions of savings and wealth. Today banks have trillions sitting idle while an majority of Americans can't survive a minor financial emergency.

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      1. With Ash Zade‏ @withAshZade Oct 11
        Replying to @WSJ

        Government has never committed to end poverty, only do enough so that there aren't riots in the streets or create dependencies.

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      2. Chitty Chitty La Bang‏ @ladyfoucher Oct 11
        Replying to @WSJ

        Hogwash. If the government Ends hand puts to the rich. And stop paying farmers not to grow food. Then then we will be talking about true change.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      3. Chitty Chitty La Bang‏ @ladyfoucher Oct 11
        Replying to @ladyfoucher @WSJ

        WSJ no more opinion pieces with out the authors contact information. I am bored with this drive by popular conservative galap

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      1. marty kubalanza‏ @aznalabukm Oct 12
        Replying to @WSJ

        Entitlements for able bodied individuals not tied to working or self improvement keep that individual in the chains of entitlements

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      1. Hector M. Ruiz‏ @TRuiz826 Oct 12
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        No shit!!!

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      1. huling‏ @antistalhei Oct 12
        Replying to @WSJ

        Government can only rescue the rich by giving trillion dollar handouts and charging the largest corporations a lower tax rate than people who pay payroll tax. I call bullshit. The GI bill and taxing the richest Americans created the first middle class in the world.

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      1. Alan P‏ @allcell9 Oct 11
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        https://bit.ly/2gkqQl2 

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      2. Tula‏ @OnlyTulaThot Oct 11
        Replying to @WSJ

        You say this yet policy has everything to do with poverty. Taxes , tariffs, county to international. It is all connected. If everything I need is made somewhere else, how will I afford it.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      3. Tula‏ @OnlyTulaThot Oct 11
        Replying to @OnlyTulaThot @WSJ

        If all that is left is clerks , house keepers , & porters,. How will we afford to live. You cause this with your reckless trading . Yet blame us for being poor. Then you DON'T even want to pay taxes so that we can have at the very least ( universal basic income)

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      4. Tula‏ @OnlyTulaThot Oct 11
        Replying to @OnlyTulaThot @WSJ

        Right now a person at the bottom of the pay scale has to work fifteen hours a day , just to survive.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      5. Tula‏ @OnlyTulaThot Oct 11
        Replying to @OnlyTulaThot @WSJ

        At that rate we will drop like flies. You are trying to kill us. Yet want us to feel bad about your profits & taxes.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      6. Tula‏ @OnlyTulaThot Oct 11
        Replying to @OnlyTulaThot @WSJ

        Two full time , bottom , jobs, that lead no where. No pension. No overtime, no nothing, just work you to death on bottom wages.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      7. Tula‏ @OnlyTulaThot Oct 12
        Replying to @OnlyTulaThot @WSJ

        Please DON'T try to sell me on communal living. Free social life , smoothing of rough edges, network. Pffft. ( bitch please). Lack of privacy, hygiene, promiscuity.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      8. Tula‏ @OnlyTulaThot Oct 12
        Replying to @OnlyTulaThot @WSJ

        Disease, homosexuality, abuse.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      9. Tula‏ @OnlyTulaThot Oct 12
        Replying to @OnlyTulaThot @WSJ

        Co signing on a path of destruction. Oh no. Who are you trying to fool. The Devil is a liar that leads you into temptation. Fast & easy will kill you.

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