Originally posted by NEPTUNE: Alan Grayson says United States has fifth-most unequal wealth distribution in world. First, some background on how equality is measured. The primary statistic used for this purpose is called the Gini coefficient. Gini coefficients range from 0, or perfect equality, to 1, or perfect inequality.
Unequal wealth distribution ? Since when is wealth distributed ? How do we rate at wealth redistribution ? Why should I care that Jones down the street has more money than me, or if Smith has less? Are those with more money than me really happy, happier than me ? Your source is suspect, what with the unanswered questions it raises. The Gini coefficient ? I knew a girl named Gina once. Mmm Mmm Mmm. Did you know her ? Coefficients ranges from zero, perfect equality, to one, perfect inequality ?
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Oct 15th, 2011
86FieroSEv6 Member
Posts: 438 From: Navarre, Florida, USA Registered: Nov 2010
I think it's time to ask the banks to start paying the TARP money back to us the taxpayers. Even if we don't get 100% back anything we do is better than nothing. We got a lot back from the stimulus, which is way more than the zero we got back from TARP.
Jazzman & Neptune are correctamundo, for once even the blind squirrell finds a wierd marble once in a while.Obama should be impeached for this ,he is totally to blame!!,I know,, I know it was the black caucus that destroyed the banks with the subprime morgage scandle, & the occupy people are paid deception shills for the left..cover up fast & furious & solyndra scandle.. It does amaze me that Jazzman & Neptune would want to bring this up since there hero,s are totally to blame,, trillions were send down the democrats favorite billionair toilet rat hole,,only Sorros did not get much cash directly.. Tax money??Look at Solyndra ..These Chicago obama style frauders?? $$535,000,000.00 is chump change & they wonder why any one is alarmed that they gave money while the company was going under..dont people understand thier corrupt major contributors were having promblem?/its only tax money ha,ha $$$1,500,000,000 down the drain to democrat contributors the past 2 years How much can we borrow fromthe democrats chinese commie buddies?? Tax money is crack to adicted democrats How many lifes,,How many banks have they ruined with the subprime fiasco ,When will these squeeks wake up ??ONLY WHEN SOME ARE HANGED & OTHERS GO TO PRISON.. NEPTUNE & RAY B ARE MORONS,, BUT JAZZMAN IS AN INTELLIGENT THINKING PERSON & HE CONTINUES TO SUPPORT LIARs & FRAUDULENT DEMOCRAT SCAMMERS ,there are many like him,WE ARE LOST ,,only a massive turn out at the polls will save 80% of America ,,They have another year to destroy America & shame her Flag
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Obumbles wants a new $$$$$ stimulus borrowed from the Chinese,& we are so lucky he has a triiiillllion $$$$$ jobs bill ,,there are no real jobs just temporary goverment jobs to suck you dry,,His millionairs only, has crapt much lower to you Crapster, he has sent inflation to every home Peanut butter up 25% in a few weeks, due to meddling with crops HOOray for Obumbles !! no one could shoot prices up like Ovamit Obumbles,,Luckily hie destruction of our economy has destroyed world economy & price of gas is down a little,,Obumbles is Now working on it(Uh,Oh) so get ready for much higher gas prices,,any thing this incompetent touches will cost you ..
Uh, Stan, you do realize that TARP was wholly a Bush thing, right? It's one of the reasons there were no strings attached when he gave them the money. The banks could have headed off a big chunk of the Great Recession by loaning that money out to businesses that needed it, but instead they sat on it to make their books look nice and pretty and paid out hundreds of millions in bonuses to retain the "talent" that created the whole mess in the first place. That money should have had all sorts of strings on it, including a stipulation that zero dollars would be used to profit those who fscked everything up.
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partfiero Member
Posts: 6923 From: Tucson, Arizona Registered: Jan 2002
Uh, Stan, you do realize that TARP was wholly a Bush thing, right? It's one of the reasons there were no strings attached when he gave them the money. The banks could have headed off a big chunk of the Great Recession by loaning that money out to businesses that needed it, but instead they sat on it to make their books look nice and pretty and paid out hundreds of millions in bonuses to retain the "talent" that created the whole mess in the first place. That money should have had all sorts of strings on it, including a stipulation that zero dollars would be used to profit those who fscked everything up.
Was it an executive order, or did about 500 others have a voice in it? Either way, if the government and money are in the mix, it will not turn out well.
They are all in bed with Wall Street and the banks.
Donations to Obama;
University of California $1,648,685 Goldman Sachs $1,013,091 Harvard University $878,164 Microsoft Corp $852,167 Google Inc $814,540 JPMorgan Chase & Co $808,799 Citigroup Inc $736,771 Time Warner $624,618 Sidley Austin LLP $600,298 Stanford University $595,716 National Amusements Inc $563,798 WilmerHale LLP $550,668 Columbia University $547,852 Skadden, Arps et al $543,539 UBS AG $532,674 IBM Corp $532,372 General Electric $529,855 US Government $513,308 Morgan Stanley $512,232 Latham & Watkins $503,295
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Posts: 27106 From: Safe in the Carolinas Registered: Aug 2000
Grayson outraises other Central Florida congressional candidates
By Mark K. Matthews, Washington Bureau
10:16 p.m. EDT, October 17, 2011 WASHINGTON — If campaign dollars were votes, former U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson would be headed back to Capitol Hill. The firebrand Democrat raised about $416,000 in the last three months — blowing away the totals of every other House candidate from Central Florida, according to newly filed campaign documents.
The haul came almost exclusively from more than 11,000 small donors nationwide who responded to Grayson — and his populist campaign letters that targeted everything from the Tea Party to the War on Terror (which he calls the War on Error). "Let's face it: most congressional campaigns auction off the law to the highest bidder, in little pieces. This campaign isn't like that at all. This is a People Power campaign," wrote Grayson in an email on Sept. 30, the final day of fundraising for the three-month quarter.
His campaign estimated the average contribution was less than $38. While it remains to be seen whether the effort is enough to get Grayson back to Congress, it's clear his campaign is the only local one catching fire.
The man who beat him by 18 points last year — U.S. Rep. Dan Webster, R-Winter Garden — netted about $146,000, less than half of Grayson's total.
That's also less than the amount raised by Webster's opponent, former Orlando police Chief Val Demings, who collected about $190,000, much of it from law-enforcement officials and congressional Democrats.
Still, a lot can change between now and Election Day, including which candidates are running where.
Demings has filed to face Webster, and Grayson is set to run in a new seat expected to be drawn in Central Florida once the Legislature finishes its once-a-decade process of redistricting.
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