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  • omgitsacamera0

    My grandfather fought for this country in the Pacific during WW2, never received any recognition let alone compensation. He finally immigrated here with my grandmother Jan. 2002.

    He died before he got any compensation, recognition, or citizenship. Thank god he got some of the best medical care in his last days. He had prostate cancer, but it was pneumonia that was the coup d'grâce.

    My mother has been a registered nurse since the 80's-longer than I've been alive. She loves her work and is dedicated to it. None of it stopped Newsom or whoever from handing her the pink slip earlier this month.

    Is this country fucked up because we don't attend to the needs of the people? Because we allow the top 1% carte blanche on everything even if they fuck shit up? Is it all one big fucking mess? Can we change it? Yes.

    On a dime? No. History has proven you can't turn a big system on a dime.

    Maybe if people leave their ideological trenches and their hatred and ignorance at the door, we could have a rational discussion.

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    • A balanced and well thought out response. Imagine that.
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    • Rightomgitsacamera
    • Imagine where we would be if we had started looking into this in 1994. You can blame Gingrich and company (and neocon Bill Kristol) for that.Josev
    • neocon Bill Kristol) for that.Josev
    • dont like the 1% carte blanche. Sounds too much like trying to make top 1% slave to the masses. prefer if it didnt focus on color of money of tops
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    • on the color of the amount of money so much as why the actions of the top 1% are to blame
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    • would be better to specify the certain thigns the top 1% fuck up and how they are able to fuck it up
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    • if they provide a job and can someone well then get better at your job. if they use politics as legal authority there is a problem
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    • problem with that. if they force or enslave their is a problem. if they use the legal system to do their forcing its a problem, but more aproblem of legal system
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    • more a problem of the legal political spectrum, since theyre hold all the legal power of force
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