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JDDavis

(725 posts)
5. Feynman is no fool, he taught me a lot
Sun Dec 28, 2014, 05:13 PM
Dec 2014

Never met the man, just read some of his writings.

Yesterday someone posted a link to the Republican National Platform of 1956. (Not here but on Facebook)

It reads more humane and progressive than the Democratic Platform of 2012.

We are in an age when more actual numbers of multi-billionaires and ten times more multi-millionaires are American citizens than ever before, yet our Congress (and even Obama assents to, he's failed us on this, but he often had no real choice but to assent to) cuts food stamps, heating, and housing subsidies for the working poor and unemployed, and nickles and dimes our elderly over medications and hospital costs, nickles and dimes school systems too, more than ever before. That simply is a recipe for more social unrest, more divisive politics, more murders, more injuries, more riotous demonstrations, more disunity within America than was true in the 60's and 70's.

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