SHRED
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Sat Dec-18-10 11:48 AM
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Privatization is killing our government |
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At the local, state and federal levels.
Way too expensive with less to zero accountability.
For-profit wars. For-profit prisons. And on and on...
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Sat Dec-18-10 11:50 AM
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1. Dems & Repubs and our Pres systematically destroying the USA nt |
Fridays Child
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Sat Dec-18-10 11:59 AM
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2. You could have left off the words "our government..." |
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...and that observation would also be true.
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Sat Dec-18-10 12:02 PM
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3. Has been doing so for the past 30 years. Supply Side Economics still hasn't dribbled down. |
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Ideology is still winning out over facts.
I thought we voted in a pragmatic politician who would show how Republican Supply-Side has failed and would return to Democratic Demand-Side Economics for really significant change I could believe in.
Bernie Sanders told the truth during his filibuster.
It has been painful that even with our infrastructure in miserable, dangerous condition, my Democrats couldn't band together and fight for the Bush tax cuts to expire as part of their Nov 2010 campaigning.
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Sat Dec-18-10 12:08 PM
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4. That's what it was supposed to do... |
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Shrink it so it can be drowned in a bathtub(?)
Government is the people and acts in the best interests of the people. Private corporations act in the best interests of the investors.
Fascists had to destroy government in order to serve the corporation. Government was the only obstacle to a world dominated by capitalism.
If you ask me, the fascists have managed a remarkable campaign to convince voters that the government was the enemy...
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Sat Dec-18-10 12:32 PM
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5. concise and to the point...thanks |
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