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LeftyFingerPop (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 11:10 AM Original message |
What is the mindset of our representatives who vote against the unemployment benefits extension? |
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LibDemAlways (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 11:16 AM Response to Original message |
1. Our "representatives" for the most part do not represent us. They are |
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LeftyFingerPop (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 11:19 AM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Agreed. And the thing is... |
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roguevalley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 01:46 PM Response to Reply #1 |
17. they think its a winner. they don't care because they never met a |
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Enrique (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 11:18 AM Response to Original message |
2. bosses like the labor pool to be as desperate as possible |
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Sparkly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 11:19 AM Response to Original message |
4. Their "thinking" (if you can call it that) is that it's a zero-sum game |
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LeftyFingerPop (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 11:26 AM Response to Reply #4 |
6. Except for the Dems who voted against the extension. n/t |
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valerief (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 11:26 AM Response to Original message |
5. They're torturists. nt |
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Robert DAH Bruce (245 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 11:27 AM Response to Original message |
7. "I've got mine!" |
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grilled onions (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 11:28 AM Response to Original message |
8. When You Live In A Glass House With Unbreakable Glass |
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leftstreet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 11:30 AM Response to Original message |
9. Campaign season! They've always been able to get us to turn on each other |
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agent46 (424 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 11:34 AM Response to Original message |
10. Their mindset seems nihilistic to me |
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liberal N proud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 11:49 AM Response to Original message |
11. Who are they really representing? |
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stray cat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 11:51 AM Response to Original message |
12. How about lowering requirements for welfare to cover those who |
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gratuitous (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 12:07 PM Response to Original message |
13. They've suddenly discovered we're running a deficit |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 12:12 PM Response to Original message |
14. "Our" representatives are heavily outnumbered by the corporate representatives. |
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CrownPrinceBandar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 12:36 PM Response to Original message |
15. Its a war on the poor........... |
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City Lights (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 12:37 PM Response to Original message |
16. They answer to a higher being... |
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Urban Prairie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 02:01 PM Response to Original message |
18. How many have and will turn to crime in an effort to survive? |
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LibDemAlways (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 02:04 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. An unemployed man robbed a bank in my area not long ago. Another |
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Gormy Cuss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 02:09 PM Response to Original message |
20. Not my problem. |
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Hosnon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 02:11 PM Response to Original message |
21. Senators are almost by definition members of the elite economic class. |
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