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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Austerity" translated:
You get the cuts to your public services and earned benefits while the wealthy get the bailouts and tax breaks.
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"Austerity" translated: (Original Post)
SHRED
Mar 2013
OP
further translated - "we have the power, and we have ours - so screw you"
NRaleighLiberal
Mar 2013
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NRaleighLiberal
(59,940 posts)1. further translated - "we have the power, and we have ours - so screw you"
SHRED
(28,136 posts)5. Taxes and trade tariffs
They need to be at Eisenhower levels and all loopholes closed.
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pansypoo53219
(20,906 posts)6. demand eisenhower tax levels, TAKE ford level.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)2. +9,961
OffWithTheirHeads
(10,337 posts)3. And the fact remains that the folks being fucked
Are the same ones that vote for the ones fucking them. Go figure.
SHRED
(28,136 posts)4. they are followers of the corporate media
Corporate media + no critical thinking skills = brainwashing.
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meow2u3
(24,743 posts)7. Even further translated
The rich do the crime; the poor do the time.
duffyduff
(3,251 posts)8. Austerity = Gangsterism n/t
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)9. i.e. We sacrifice, they share.
99Forever
(14,524 posts)10. Another translation:
Recipe for violent revolution.
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)11. When they say "free market capitalism" they mean for them ...not little people. n/t
MyshkinCommaPrince
(611 posts)12. I may need a new translation dictionary.
Mine gives me this: "Those who have accrued power are building toward the big Die Off event."
On the other hand, it also tells me that there really is something akin to an Illuminati, so possibly I should avail myself of a more moderate translation resource....
nyquil_man
(1,443 posts)13. Isn't it odd that the people who talk the most about shared sacrifice
are usually the ones who sacrifice the least?