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thermodynamic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-03 04:14 PM
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If the repukes say we're anti-business, what should we call them?
Let's agree on a proper adjective and send it to every Dem in power and every Dem presidential contender. If the Dems use such a phrase openly and often everytime a repuke calls us "anti-business", that should wake a lot of people up.

I say the republicans are "anti-people".

What do you think? My answer is fairly generic, though it technically works.
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Liberal Veteran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-03 04:15 PM
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1. How about anti-worker.....
Because they put corporations ahead of the people who work for them.
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leftist_rebel1569 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-03 04:22 PM
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12. exactly what I thought
maybe...anti-labor?
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XanaDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-03 04:37 PM
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16. Me too
and since most Americans have to work to live, it should resonate the most with the most people.
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rogerashton Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-03 04:18 PM
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2. Porkers
In practice, "pro-business" means the pork barrel every time.

Reporklicanism is pork barrel politics!
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JohnKleeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-03 04:18 PM
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3. like lib vet says anti worker
anti people yep.
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GayboyBilly Donating Member (177 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-03 04:18 PM
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4. My to favorites woould be...
Anti-Social

or

Anti-American

I prefer the latter, since The policies that have been comming out are not American values.
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Iris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-03 04:18 PM
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5. anti-human, anti-family
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Kathy in Cambridge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-03 04:18 PM
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6. They are anti-small business
they're tax cuts and incentives for big business and lack of support for entrepreneurs is hurting our economy. It takes innovation and new discoveries in order to foster job creation, and this is not coming from the conglomerates who send our jobs overseas.
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nannygoat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-03 04:19 PM
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7. How about pro-bankruptcy?
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VOX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-03 04:20 PM
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8. Cheap-labor conservatives.
There have been some excellent posts in GD about this newly-minted moniker. And man, does it ever fit!
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finecraft Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-03 04:42 PM
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19. Yes!! I agree
Cheap-Labor Conservatives gets my vote, too!
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izzie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-03 04:20 PM
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9. I am not anti-business but anti-anything goes.
So guess they are anti-workers.
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proud patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-03 04:20 PM
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10. Anti- fair labor
anti-living wage

anti - labor rights

anti- worker

anti- union

anti- Fair trade

anti- states rights

anti - social-class equality
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Redleg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-03 04:21 PM
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11. Cheap-labor conservatives.
I don't see how they can call us anti-business. Don't we all support businesses by purchasing goods and services from them and by insisting that businesses follow the rules?
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-03 04:27 PM
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13. HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
ARE BUSINESSES DOING BETTER NOW THAN THEY DID UNDER CLINTON ?????
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bucknaked Donating Member (818 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-03 04:36 PM
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14. C'mon, y'all know business can do no wrong!
That's why we need, not ONLY tort-reform, but we need less "regulation" (really, it's just interference) also, because we all know the customer/quality/employees/safety/the childeren are all the #1 priority in the boardroom. Also, we all know that a totally free market will solve all the country's ills... you know, like it did for slavery, Jim Crowe laws, etc... we didn't need any government involvement in those cases, the market would've eventually solved those problems.

:eyes:
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maine_raptor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-03 04:36 PM
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15. False Promise Republicans n/t
Edited on Sun Aug-03-03 04:37 PM by maine_raptor
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leftyandproud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-03 04:39 PM
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17. we are...
anti corporate-power, pro worker rights

they are

anti worker rights, pro corporate power

just switch it around on them
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Darranar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-03 04:39 PM
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18. Anti-people?
We think alike, thermodynamic! That's what came to my mind!
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democrat in Tallahassee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-03 04:43 PM
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20. anti-human; they are not human
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unfrigginreal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-03 04:46 PM
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21. Anti -humanity n/t
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unblock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-03 05:10 PM
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22. don't concede that republicans are pro-business!!!
they only side with businesses to the extent that it lets rich bastards fleece the masses. they are just as happy raping and pillaging and looting businesses as enriching themselves any other way.


in fact, it is the democrats who are pro-business in the sense that we want viable, long-term, stable businesses who provide a legitimate service or goods at a reasonable profit.

republicans are pro- fly-by-night, quick-con-artist, sham accounting, false advertising, pension-raiding, polluting corporations.
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flama Donating Member (418 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-03 05:18 PM
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24. OMG!
My facist brother's still a Republican? LOL!
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thermodynamic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-03 05:37 PM
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26. Oh, I'd never prop up anybody with a "pro-anything"
They call us "anti-something", we come back with the exact opposite of what they said, also in a negative connotation. We are "anti-business" so they are "anti-worker". That alone should perk up 220 million ears. If we called them "pro-business" in return, we'd get cremated I'd expect.

And I agree with you, we are pro-business. As long as its regulated because pure freedom, in a human sense, is anarchy. And the business world is a step away from that given all the anti-goodness it engages in.
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sam sarrha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-03 05:13 PM
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23. Fascists, defination...n.[1]. a philosophy or syatem of government that
advocates or exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with an ideology of belligerent nationalism. ...sound familiar??
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flama Donating Member (418 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-03 05:20 PM
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25. Great timing, Sam!
Just mentioned facism. Yes, it does sound familiar.
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