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SHRED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-10 11:09 AM
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They want us to be "cut" instead
Yeah us. The working class. The low to middle class.

While the top 5% have made out like robber barons over the last few decades what have we gotten?
Wages that in no way can keep up with costs.
A health insurance system that has drained us and in many instances killed us.

So what is the narrative over the airwaves?
That we need to "cut government spending".

America needs to wake up.
It needs to wake up to the fact that the wealthy have gotten theirs.
They have gotten deregulation in all sectors allowing them to gamble with our retirements and tax dollars like a casino.
They have gotten their trade tariffs decimated allowing them to move to cheap labor and no environmental standards overseas.
They have gotten their wars to keep their corporate war piggy bank full of our money.

America needs to understand that these elitists are controlling the airwaves and setting the narrative to convince the public at large that SS and Medicare need to be scaled back and cut. That it isn't the massive imbalance of wealth distribution that is the problem but rather the "government".

Here are a few "cuts":
CUT THESE FUCKING WARS OFF NOW!
CUT TAX BREAKS TO THOSE WHO ARE HORDING OUR MONEY AND SHELTERING IT IN OVERSEAS ACCOUNTS!
CUT OUR PUBLIC AIRWAVES AWAY FROM THE CORPORATE CAPITALISTS WHO HAVE CAUSED THIS MESS!!!!!!



:mad: x 1000
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-10 11:14 AM
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1. I'm beginning to think that they don't give a damn about us.
I agree with what you've said.

And it is disgusting.

Recommended.

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bdamomma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-10 11:46 AM
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11. they don't care about the american people not at all
god, I have become more and more cynical it doesn't matter who is President if the ole boys club is still going by the same ole rules what is the expectation? and now the teabagger representatives are in the House, it will take the people to get to such a point to rebel vocally.........or whatever.
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Starry Messenger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-10 11:15 AM
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2. "They say cut back, we say fight back"
Frightening them with our numbers and opposition is the only thing that will get their attention.
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bdamomma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-10 11:48 AM
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13. hell yea seconded.
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daleanime Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-10 11:16 AM
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3. Hell yea...
:grr:
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raccoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-10 11:17 AM
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4. Rec'd! nt
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liberal N proud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-10 11:25 AM
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5. Surprised?
Not!

It proves what we all knew, the Republicans are only in office to aid the wealthiest.
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Dragonfli Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-10 11:37 AM
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8. And it also appears Democrats are in office to aid republicans, the new chain of life
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bdamomma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-10 11:49 AM
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14. for sure, of course they look out for their own best interests.
Edited on Tue Nov-16-10 11:50 AM by bdamomma
I would love for them to switch places for one day (or longer) to see them struggle.
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DirkGently Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-10 11:34 AM
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6. Yep. "Smaller gov't" is code for "Gov't that funnels money *from* the poor *to* the rich.

Anything that benefits society as a whole is a "hand-out," given to "parasites," and taxation for things like education or social services is "taking money out of my pocket to give it to someone less deserving." Yet trillion-dollar wars that mainly benefit defense contractors and energy companies are characterized as "defense spending," and de-regulation to allow more pollution, less food and drug safety, etc., is "Big Government," while "welfare" has become a dirty word.

American conservative philosophy has not been slapped down hard enough, often enough, and has gradually devolved from a few principles that had some merit into, "Government exists to protect the rights of the wealthy to increase their God-given right to own everything in the country."

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Poboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-10 11:51 AM
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15. Obama called small government "as American as apple pie"!
The man is championing Ronald fucking Reagan.
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DirkGently Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-10 11:59 AM
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17. I'd like to think he meant small in the "efficient-and-honest-government" way. Otherwise,
Edited on Tue Nov-16-10 12:00 PM by DirkGently
it does come off as (again?) buying the same conservative rhetoric that got us where we are, making policy based on ideology instead of reality. Where the frak has the Republican notion of "small government" gotten us, Mr. President?
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Dragonfli Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-10 06:25 PM
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18. I'd like to think shit was chocolate ice cream, but I'll let you be the first to taste it
Just to make sure.
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mstinamotorcity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-10 11:36 AM
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7. The one thing that Wealthy People Hate
Edited on Tue Nov-16-10 11:37 AM by mstinamotorcity
is the fear of becoming poor!!!!!!! If you want them to feel the pain,organize and stop giving them the money we have left. If you keep giving them your money does anyone really think they will stop screwing you over??? We are helping in our own demise. I am just saying!!

TOMBStone
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laughingliberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-10 11:40 AM
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9. Huge K&R!
Now how do we wake up the masses living paycheck to paycheck who buy into the Reaganomics BS?
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asjr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-10 11:41 AM
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10. I wish we could have a more cohesive Democratic
party. I wish Pres. Obama would get together with the House Democrats, the Senate Democrats and actually say outloud to each other YES WE CAN, YES WE WILL. Then do it. We just may be one election away from total Republican rule that will make us more second tier Americans. I realize most of the action from Republicans is from their racism toward an African-American president, but that should not make us more vulnerable. We have to fight that. I also realize the media is responsible for much of the animosity. I do not like it that "newspeople" have become nothing more than pundits for the Republican party. That is a fight in itself. I do what I can by writing letters; at this point in my life that is about all I can do. And it isn't easy in this Republican State of TN to get anything across. Most in this state, including my 98-yr old aunt, "have always voted Republican." I will check out my purse and see if I have enough to buy a bottle of gin.
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-10 11:48 AM
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12. Rec'd n/t
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Vincardog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-10 11:51 AM
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16. Cut off the corrosive influence of $ on politics PUBLIC FINANCING OF ELECTIONS NOW
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SHRED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-10 06:35 PM
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19. Exactly!...link here:
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mainer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-10 07:07 PM
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20. Whew. Thought this was another damn circumcision thread.
Glad we're back to the economy.
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