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- lowimpakt0
wow, I was grumpy this morning.
- zenmasterfoo0
it's a good article from politico about the rhetoric of Obama's campaign summed up in one word.
- TheBlueOne0
Ah, remember when Voter Fraud was the biggest giganticist thing to threaten our very democracy?:
http://news.cincinnati.com/artic…
But I'm sure we'll hear the same arguments from the same neanderthals choking up the mass media airwaves, where reporters will take it all seriously in four years time.
- Exactly, TBO. Voter fraud is an alarmist construct of those afraid of a strengthening minority voting bloc.waterhouse
- ... and those afraid of Diebold machines.tommyo
- waterhouse0
It's been said before, but it's plain to me that we're in a second Gilded Age now; worse than the first.
No matter what any hard-lining conservative alarmingly cries about socialism, our founding fathers risked their lives to create a nation where every citizen could enjoy liberty and have equal footing in the pursuit of happiness. Over two hundred years later, here we are. We have a stupendously elite and powerful upper class.
- BattleAxe0
check out France, they really know how to make there frustrations heard!
I say a workers strike is what we need to freeze the money flow, sure noone will get paid, but no taxes could be generated from that , we have to freeze the money flow , we are like at 2 Trillion $$ that has just been going to already rich corporations no matter how you spin it , or what side you are on. Rich people are getting Money, when they say it goes to "Institution A" , or "Institution B" , in the end it is people that get that money, Rich People , that get our money so they can loan it to us !the Economic Crisis is a case by case situation , it is not something that is affecting us all, if you think that please do tell !
Under Bush he signs the 700 Billion bail out, everyone goes ape shit, Obama out does him with 800 Billion , and people are like well it's ok it's Obama, at least that is what people are telling me when I talk to them, WTF!!! its the same shit!
read it your self , pack a lunch
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/qu…
- BattleAxe0
Highlights of the Bill that passed the house
"None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available in this Act may be used for any casino or other gambling establishment, aquarium, zoo, golf course, or swimming pool."
- planet010
Some of my favorite items...
$1 billion for Amtrak
$50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts
$2.4 billion for carbon-capture demonstration projects
$650 million on top of the billions already doled out for digital TV conversion coupons.
$7 billion for modernizing federal buildings and facilities
$150 million for the SmithsonianSo much for bipartisan politics...
"We won the election. We wrote the bill."
Speaker Nancy Pelosi
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- tommyo0
I really don't want to have to explain who I am again. Maybe if you have some spare time you can flip through some of these pages and try to overcome your angry liberal within to see that I don't like either side. Especially the Fox News jackoffs ... and people who play with magic 8 balls.
- Whatever dude.********
- wow man...I looked back one page and saw the raging hard on you seem to have for me. Wanna come over n' do it? ;)tommyo
- Whatever dude.
- planet010
Does anyone have an answer for where this money is coming from? China has already hinted that they are definitely going to slow down on "investing" in the US.
- BattleAxe0
This is where the Money comes from
- BattleAxe0
"Check back after the passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to see how and where your tax dollars are being spent"
Guess it is a lock for the Bill to pass Senate
- ********0
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Right after receiving a 25 billion dollar package, Bank of America had a secret crisis meeting >>against<< better labor rights for workers
Bailout Recipients Hosted Call To Defeat Key Labor Bill
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/20…"Bernie Marcus, the charismatic co-founder of Home Depot, led the call along with Rick Berman, an aggressive EFCA opponent and founder of the Center for Union Facts. Over the course of an hour, the two framed the legislation as an existential threat to American capitalism, or worse.
"This is the demise of a civilization," said Marcus. "This is how a civilization disappears. I am sitting here as an elder statesman and I'm watching this happen and I don't believe it."
Donations of hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dollars were needed, it was argued, to prevent America from turning "into France.""
http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Anti-u…- Any questions from the class about who are the nobles and who is the serfs?TheBlueOne
- There your answer right there. What the noblest and richest american elite thinks about workers rights********
- ********0
Die America, die
The sooner, the better for all of us
- ukit0
If America dies, everyone dies. Don't be foolish.
- ********0
If America dies, everyone will live twice as better
- Are you retarded or just the worst comedian ever?waterhouse
- Yup...just like in the Middle Ages before there was America..oh wait...TheBlueOne
- worst comedian ever?GeorgesII
- planet010
The US is a bunch of spoiled entitled crying brats who all want a free bailout. The truth is, that no one wants to hear the truth or do the hard things it would take to make it better. So, for now, we'll just enable ourselves with politicians promise checks they can't really cash, and we'll just role the dice and hope really hard that everything turns out okay.
- Let's say hypothetically the bill before the Senate doesn't pass and we fast forward 100 years into the future of free-market deregulated Hannity humping capitalism.waterhouse
- deruglated Hannity humping capitalism. You, my friend, will be on the receiving end of the bloodiest rebellion on the priveledged since the French Revolution.waterhouse
- privledged since the French Revolution. Now or later, buddy. People are getting pissed at selfish rich fucks.waterhouse
- I'm not pretending to know what the solution is, I just think we are digging our own grave and no one wants to do what is hard, whatever that might be.planet01
- whatever that might be.planet01