Originally Posted by Raharu Haruha

So my question is this: If minimum wage puts a person above poverty (if they work full time) then why are there impoverish (healthy) people? Can they not find work? And, if they can not find work, then wouldn't supply side reaganomics be the best solution? Meaning that we should give money to businesses in order to create more jobs for people.

Originally Posted by catawba

I never claimed that 100,000 civilians died by American hands. I merely state the fact that our invasion and occupation has resulted in 100,000 civilian deaths.

This is figure approximates the numbers from Iraq Body Count, the most well documented, and highly regarded, source of civilian Iraq deaths from violence during our war with Iraq.
http://www.iraqbodycount.org/