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In just eight years ... (Original Post)
Scuba
Apr 2013
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I think the new meme from the Chamber is that businesses should not be responsible
Baitball Blogger
Apr 2013
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jtuck004
(15,882 posts)1. You know, every day I wonder, while people are waving their flags to celebrate
the capture of a terrorist, (are those the same flags they waved to support the ill-conceived wars in the Mid-East?), or reveling in their selfish wishes for retribution, or grieving for the loss of our loved ones blown up while saving people in a fertilizer factory or from terrorism or other crimes - you know, just living our lives - how much money (in other words opportunity for a family that needs a good job or two, or even just a little more food to make up for the food stamps that run out in the third week of every month, or a little heat for the senior who worked all their life and now live on a SS check in poverty), was pocketed by thieving bankers and the wealthy that day?
Those things are not unimportant, but our pockets are being picked while we pay attention to the hucksters on tv way too much, I think. People look back at the relative security a large part of this country enjoyed for 40 years or so, then ask how we got here, and I think it's because we persist in looking in the wrong direction.
Thanks for that pic.
Baitball Blogger
(46,737 posts)2. I think the new meme from the Chamber is that businesses should not be responsible
for job creation.
Doesn't that help explain the greed?
progressoid
(49,991 posts)3. Woohoo. That just means for to trickle down on us!