What does "win" mean to you? A proxy government in Iraq that further fuels the ire of the Muslim world? More dead Americans? I don't know how you are defining "win"?
Trickle down/supply side economics... long debunked as mythology. You need new material.
No, we should keep giving corporate welfare, I'm much rather my tax dollar go the the AIG execs who can bang hot chicks on a cruise (on my dime) rather than the single Mom, with no healthcare and three kids.
No, but when the bottom has no money, they don't buy goods, the don't use services and they don't put the fuel in our consumption driven economy. Bring up the bottom and you increase the top.
8 years of Bush has insured the American dream is only a fantasy. No need for most to even contemplate it for the next little while.
Dude, when I was born I lived in a house with 16 other family members, out of necessity. We never collected welfare or food stamps but we got a lot of help in a lot of other ways.
I'm not so self-righteous to sit here and tell you I did it all because of my "own effort". I did it because along the way I had great (under paid) teachers, counselors and clergy. I had a "support system" that I knew I could count on in a time of need. I've also gone from poor the rich and would hope my tax dollars would go to helping other make that move.
There are a lot of people who put a lot of their own effort into this land and don't have much to show for it, so spare me the sanctomonious "everyone else must be lazy" story.