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midnight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-16-11 04:36 PM
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the Republican's agenda is to privatize everything
"Clearly, the Republican's agenda is to privatize everything. I think they took a cue from the NCAAF in naming rights for the bowl games we all watch. How disgusting can these repugnant individuals get? Has someone secretly brainwashed the likes of Walker, Fitzgerald, Darling in Wisconsin? What about that moron, Paul Ryan, in Washington, who thinks a simple chart will fix the entire US economy. Hell, I tried to frame Walkers agenda on a chart and I ran out of room after only four of his cronyism plots!"


To continue with the mantra of an emergency.... this is what is on the drawing board for Milwaukee:Fighting Bob also mentions the name of the law firm drawing up these plans for King Walker. "A fancy brochure is almost ready for distribution. Page one has five pictures of happy people, apparently because there is a new Milwaukee County "that is the destination for new businesses, young professionals and tourists." (Really?) And this carrot: "Working together, we can make this bold vision for Milwaukee County a reality." You must read ASAP.
All of this is going to to be spun under the heading "Make It Your Milwaukee County." Check on it at makeityourmilwaukee.com"
Time to save the State Wisconsin. Please share this post on facebook, tweet this, call your Senators, sign those petitions and Get Down to the Capitol! It's time to take back Madison!http://www.politiscoop.com/component/content/article/35-last-24h-news/216-walker-preparing-financial-martial-law-as-we-speak.html

Paul Ryan's Medicare privatisation plan

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/apr/12/republicans-healthcare

Folks, the Republicans were catering to industry at the expense of public health and safety. Republicans said their overriding objective was to cut government spending and block federal regulations so private employers would create jobs and bring down the national 9 percent unemployment rate. That is a bunch of elephant shit, which is what their constant lies amount to, yet many stupid Americans believe these Judases!http://fightingdemocrat.blogspot.com/2011/04/gop-teas-want-to-cripple-government-and.html

104 Republicans In Congress Want To Privatize Social Security
This is the second installment in a three-part series on legislation that may emerge from a GOP-controlled Congress. Click here for part one on ending birthright citizenship.

After their attempt to privatize Social Security in 2005 was met with widespread public outcry, the GOP’s strategy on Social Security has been two-fold. First, Republicans deny they are interested in privatization. Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) recently told the Wall Street Journal that “no one has a proposal up to cut Social Security,” (his own book proposes doing so), while conservatives in the media have tried to argue that Republicans don’t actually want to privatize Social Security.

The second tactic has been to obfuscate their privatization plans by sugarcoating them in flowery, palatable language. President Bush’s privatization plan is a prime example. In his 2005 State of the Union, President Bush said we needed to “save” Social Security and give younger workers a “better deal” by having “voluntary personal retirement accounts,” the poll-tested language for privatization. Bush now says his greatest failure was not privatizing Social Security.
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/10/27/gop-privatize-socialsecurity/





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Drale Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-16-11 04:39 PM
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1. That has been their plan for 30 years now.
They just have not been crazy enough to start doing it yet. But they make crazy people look sane now.
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-16-11 06:13 PM
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-16-11 04:41 PM
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2. And regulate nothing.
Which means no accountability for any crime of any kind ever. Unless you aren't white and rich.
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phasma ex machina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-16-11 04:45 PM
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3. War. The Republican agenda is war. nt
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howaboutme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-16-11 04:53 PM
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4. War is a neo con agenda and it involves both Parties
The Rs might be more aggressive in initiating war, but the Ds have their own clan of neocons who don't hesitate to support and profit from it. You'll rarely find a banker who doesn't adore war as it produces profits, but you'll find few, including their children who will participate in it. War is a poor man's obligation and rich man's profit center.
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phasma ex machina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-16-11 05:04 PM
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5. Agreed. Banksters LOVE war and TARP proves that banksters own both parties. nt
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howaboutme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-16-11 05:15 PM
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6. The funny thing about privatization
is that it never saves us money. It always creates corruption. It creates cronyism. It creates a bureaucracy that works to serve the private sector contractors because they provide incentives for jobs and goodies for the "govt overseers" that are conflicts of interest and counter to the taxpayers interests.

A government bureaucrat never has an incentive to bribe a politician or another bureaucrat to cut corners or add costs or expenses, but the private sector does, and they do it regularly.

I rarely hear anyone state that Medicare Advantage (privatized Medicare) costs every taxpayer thousands more than regular Medicare. Yet this is what Ryan proposes to replace regular Medicare.

The real crux of the American problem is that too many in both Parties have special interests that do not represent the common good of the USA. They representing other countries and special moneyed interests that have nothing to do with Americans.

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midnight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-16-11 05:46 PM
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7. They, the republicans have no intention of saving us money, it is all about profit...
Money trumps peace.....
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howaboutme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-16-11 06:02 PM
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9. Sadly to say it ain't just Rs.
There is enough corruption in DC to cover both Parties. The longer they serve the more corrupt they become. There might be few exceptions and strangely they never seem to get the leadership posts.

You solve it by giving Bernie Sanders (I) Harry Reid's job, and Dennis Kucinich, Pelosi's job. We'd also be far better off with a Ron Paul as Speaker on the R side than the tannist Boehner and slickster Eric Cantor.

Why do all the leadership posts instead of going to pro-Americans, go instead to anti-Americans and those who support corrupt self serving banksters? It really needs investigated.
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-16-11 06:41 PM
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midnight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-17-11 12:46 AM
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17. It certainly has been a bipartisan agreement to keep war going while Americans go homeless..
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reggie the dog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-16-11 05:56 PM
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8. no secrect brainwashing, just open legal bribery
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greymattermom Donating Member (680 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-16-11 06:45 PM
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12. if they want everything private
why can't they pay for their own sports stadiums?
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-16-11 06:57 PM
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midnight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-17-11 01:03 AM
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18. Exactly... Socialize the cost, and privatize the winnings...
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QED Donating Member (253 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-16-11 06:52 PM
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13. How many states are privatizing prisons?
The Corrections Corporation of America is itching to run all prisons and scoop up profits.
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-16-11 07:50 PM
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Urban Prairie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-16-11 08:10 PM
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16. Planning to stake a claim for your very own homestead in the US?
Edited on Sat Apr-16-11 08:10 PM by Urban Prairie
Sorry, the US is all bought up now, and has been since about the early 1900s...

LOL @ comparing the plight of the homeless poor in the US to pygmies in New Guinea.
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