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Hugabear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-11 12:00 AM
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I don't care how much it fucking costs...some things are worth the money!
It's worth the cost to ensure that our nation's food supply is safe.
It's worth the cost to feed the poor, elderly, and sick.
It's worth the cost to educate our children.
It's worth the cost to make sure that our medicine is safe.
It's worth the cost to shelter the homeless.


You know what's NOT worth the cost?

Spending billions on the newest military toys just to prop up our overseas imperialism
Spending billions on this failed "drug war" and locking up millions of Americans
Spending billions propping up Wall Street banks, especially when they turn around and shit all over small businesses
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-11 12:02 AM
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1. Yes.
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ClayZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-11 12:08 AM
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2. Big K and R
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QuintanarooBoy Donating Member (233 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-11 05:53 AM
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14. x2
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Liberal_in_LA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-11 06:10 PM
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20. squared
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leveymg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-11 12:12 AM
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3. Why do you not love and trust our fearless leaders? ;-)
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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-11 12:17 AM
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4. Well, when we organize enough people for long enough to demand that seriously, we'll get it
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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-11 12:23 AM
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5. A-FUCKING-MEN!!!
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dkf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-11 12:31 AM
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6. Then we should support paying Clinton tax rates.
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lordsummerisle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-11 12:32 AM
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7. K&R! n/t
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pansypoo53219 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-11 12:58 AM
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8. tax cutting is hurting the muscle and bone of government.
we have to kill zombie reagan SOON! oh wait, america WANTS taxes to go up to fix this. republikkklans can't hear them in their fux gnews bubble.
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OffWithTheirHeads Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-11 02:00 AM
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9. and our military will be going broke when?
Social Security is going broke.
Medicare is going broke.
When does the military go broke?
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yodermon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-11 11:26 AM
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16. +1
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grahamhgreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-11 11:57 PM
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34. very good point. Please repeat often and make this an OP!
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-11 02:06 AM
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10. I stand with you!
Some things ARE worth the money, damn it.

I approve of your list.

Recommended.

:patriot:
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ProfessorPlum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-11 05:42 AM
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11. the problem is, the people with all of the money DO care how much
all of that costs - and they aren't about to let the government collect and spend THEIR corporate money to accomplish any of it. Selfish assholes.
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zinnisking Donating Member (294 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-18-11 05:56 AM
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35. "...the people with all of the money DO care how much all of that costs"... except for the military,
the "drug war" and propping up Wall Street banks.
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Motown_Johnny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-11 05:43 AM
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12. those are investments, referring to them as costs is misleading
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kentuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-11 05:45 AM
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13. The thing about it, that is the "middle ground".
It is a compromise reached over many decades that is fair to the people to assure that a few at the top do not get all the wealth. Medicare and Social Security are part of the "middle ground" for the people.
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GeorgeGist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-11 06:53 AM
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15. You will care when you don't have the money ...
to back up your specious reasoning.
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awoke_in_2003 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-11 07:40 PM
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22. what don't you understand?....
stop flushing all the money away in foreign countries and put tax rates back where they were just 13 years ago.
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Gregorian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-11 04:57 PM
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17. Thank you.
Some basics that need to be in place. Otherwise we can't call ourselves a civilized country.
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The Wizard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-11 08:46 PM
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26. When dealing with a counterpart
that refuses to bargain in good faith civilized is off the table. This is the dumbest country on Earth, and the most easily frightened. The Republican/Machiavellian strategy of pitting the uneducated against the working class is turning us into predators, willing to feed on each other's flesh. With each passing day we devolve further into a primitive death spiral. Who benefits from our uncivilized march to the deep end?
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Gregorian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-11 09:33 PM
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31. Well stated.
Edited on Fri Jun-17-11 09:34 PM by Gregorian
It's all about money. What a shame people can't see that there is far more to life on this emerald sphere in space than wealth. I see it every day when I look at birds in the trees, talking with each other.

I believe we can live in peace and good health. It's not just some weirdo hippy dream.
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jwirr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-11 06:06 PM
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18. That should be the platform we run on in 2012.
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DesertFlower Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-11 06:06 PM
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19. i agree. nt
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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-11 06:39 PM
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21. K&R
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timmymoff Donating Member (7 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-11 07:42 PM
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23. Excellent post
It is also worth it, for our government to invest in real clean energy. Water safety and cleanliness can't be far behind, considering it is the most precious of all "commodities". But for national security reasons, clean energy must be catapulted into our being. The only entity possible is the government. Sorry republicans we wouldn't have made it to the moon with the private sector either. :)
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madmax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-11 07:49 PM
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24. BIG K&R nt
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EC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-11 08:26 PM
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25. That's pretty much what my head has been yelling at me
for a while now. Also, we hire them to get the things we need planned, arranged and implemented. We don't hire them to TELL us what we will have or not have. Increase the revenue side if we can't pay for our priorities, don't cut them. If they don't want to increase taxes, then create jobs to increase revenue...government jobs ARE jobs.
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bigwillq Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-11 08:47 PM
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27. K and R
:thumbsup:
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Yon_Yonson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-11 09:18 PM
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28. Get's my FUCKING-A approval
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Zax2me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-11 09:24 PM
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29. Sometimes the most simple post is the best.
BRAVO!
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Chisox08 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-11 09:32 PM
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30. But what about Wall-street profits
Feeding the poor, educating our children, sheltering the homeless, protecting our food and medicine is not profitable. Think about the billionaires and millionaires why won't you think about the billionaires, the poor, poor billionaires.
Bombing a third world country back to the stone age makes billions in profits and when the billionaires get more money. They will out of the kindness of their heart trickle some it down to all those poor welfare queens. :sarcasm:
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libmom74 Donating Member (577 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-11 10:09 PM
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32. K&R
If the Democratic leadership had spines and any sense of self-preservation or common sense they would be out saying this LOUDLY & CLEARLY every day. For the greedy corporatists whatever "concessions" the democrats are willing to make will never be enough, they want it all.
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grahamhgreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-11 11:56 PM
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33. It's a simple matter of priorities.
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