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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-23-11 06:00 PM
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When Halliburton was building roads,bridges and schools in Afghanistan
and Iraq none of the ReTHUGS asked how much it cost or how it would be paid for - so why do they want to play games with FEMA. Well said Congressman Joe Crowley.

Pay your fair share rich folks or suffer the consequences
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pinto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-23-11 06:16 PM
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1. Good points.
:thumbsup:
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-23-11 06:28 PM
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3. I suspect the silence was because ReTHUG contractors
were making the money
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-23-11 06:25 PM
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2. k&r....
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judgegblue Donating Member (107 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-23-11 06:30 PM
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4. The hypocrisy of the repubs is obvious on almost every issue
But the MSM refuses hem call them out on it. War profiteering and unfunded, unbudgeted spending on two wars ars the most glaring examples. They talk of job creation but refuse to support spending programs to rebuild this country.
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Lasher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-23-11 06:36 PM
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5. Why do you hate the troops?
It's MILITARY shit, so it is not to be questioned.
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judgegblue Donating Member (107 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-23-11 06:41 PM
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6. The troops are victims of our folly and the greed of the GOP benefactors
Bring them home and put them to work on rebuilding our infrastructure. They would be paid more and wouldn't be shot at.
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msongs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-23-11 06:44 PM
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7. exactly. troops and afghanis are dying to protect profits of the private contractors, nothing more n
Edited on Fri Sep-23-11 06:45 PM by msongs
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judgegblue Donating Member (107 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-23-11 06:52 PM
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10. Do you mean that our troops aren't over there defending our freedoms?
Like the freedom to discriminate, to execute innocent individuals, to preserve the wealth of the upper 5%, to deny healthcare to our freedom loving citizens?
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-23-11 06:53 PM
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11. Don't forget the freedoms to steal other people's resources and to
let the banks fugg up the entire planet
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-23-11 06:45 PM
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9. Ditto
:hi:
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-23-11 06:44 PM
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8. Bwaaaaaaaaaaaah I think that changed last night
when the Greedy Ooffensive Pigs booed a gay soldier.
They are such hypocrites. They use people and institutions to spew talking points.
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Lasher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-23-11 08:19 PM
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14. It's also different when soldiers turn into vets.
Republicans have always shit on vets. When supporting the troops does not equal supporting neocon policies, then there is no GOP support for the troops.
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Sal Minella Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-23-11 07:16 PM
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12. Was thinking about this while listening to the news this morning.
We were building lovely new power plants in Afghanistan to prove to the Afghanis what Nice People we are, and I didn't hear a whisper about how we were paying for them, but now suddenly the RePugs think we can't afford the gas to run the bulldozers that are mopping up the wreckage in Joplin?

Must not be any oil in that part of Missouri? Or what?
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benld74 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-23-11 07:18 PM
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13. Haliburton built SHIT - Except for its BANK ACCOUNT
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