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kentuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-25-09 08:26 AM Original message |
If we had no unemployment insurance, no food stamps,... |
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wilt the stilt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-25-09 08:27 AM Response to Original message |
1. it would be a republican wet dream n/t |
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raccoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-25-09 08:31 AM Response to Original message |
2. To answer your first question, yes. Second one, probably yes. |
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Gormy Cuss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-25-09 08:36 AM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Another point on farms: even those who didn't have gardens then lived closer to the food supply. |
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Psychic Consortium (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-25-09 08:35 AM Response to Original message |
3. An advanced civilization provides health care, education, care for elderly, |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-25-09 08:38 AM Response to Original message |
5. We need more unemployment to get to that point. |
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kentuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-25-09 08:42 AM Response to Reply #5 |
6. I recall reading something during the Reagan years... |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-25-09 11:01 AM Response to Reply #6 |
17. Raw numbers can't be used as an equivalent, though. You've got |
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ieoeja (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-25-09 10:23 AM Response to Reply #5 |
15. We would have more unemployment if not for the safety nets. |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-25-09 11:02 AM Response to Reply #15 |
18. That's probably quite true. nt |
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Horse with no Name (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-25-09 08:42 AM Response to Original message |
7. It would be like Mexico |
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madrchsod (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-25-09 08:46 AM Response to Original message |
8. we would be bring out our dead..... |
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Coyote_Bandit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-25-09 08:47 AM Response to Original message |
9. Ummmm...... |
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havocmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-25-09 08:52 AM Response to Original message |
10. As there are less people living close to where the food comes from, worse. Much worse |
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ejpoeta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-25-09 09:01 AM Response to Original message |
11. that's the thing. people take these things for granted now, but when they were first |
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kickysnana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-25-09 10:04 AM Response to Original message |
12. More of the population were in agriculture in 1932. n/t |
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Javaman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-25-09 10:12 AM Response to Original message |
13. I saw a group of morons out protesting national health care... |
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Mojo_electro (120 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-25-09 10:16 AM Response to Original message |
14. These programs save our asses... |
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Zenlitened (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-25-09 10:36 AM Response to Original message |
16. Don't forget the FDIC. It, more than anything else... |
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ConcernedCanuk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-25-09 11:10 AM Response to Original message |
19. Good question, but all the answers are wrong |
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