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Crewleader

(17,005 posts) Tue Oct 22, 2013, 05:04 PM Oct 2013

The Triumph of the Right

Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Robert Reich

Conservative Republicans have lost their fight over the shutdown and debt ceiling, and they probably won’t get major spending cuts in upcoming negotiations over the budget.

But they’re winning the big one: How the nation understands our biggest domestic problem.

They say the biggest problem is the size of government and the budget deficit.

In fact our biggest problem is the decline of the middle class and increasing ranks of the poor, while almost all the economic gains go to the top.

http://robertreich.org/post/64791423478

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The Triumph of the Right (Original Post) Crewleader Oct 2013 OP

As long as we (and our "leaders") allow them to set the topics and terms of the debate, we will lose Vincardog Oct 2013 #1

Vincardog

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1. As long as we (and our "leaders") allow them to set the topics and terms of the debate, we will lose

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Tue Oct 22, 2013, 05:10 PM

Oct 2013

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