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smackeddog
Posts: 38386 Alba Posts: 0 Joined: 3/30/2005 Member: #883 |
![]() I don't get how these rich politicians can be so shameless. Sheer greed
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izybx
Posts: 22366 Alba Posts: 2 Joined: 10/16/2006 Member: #1178 USA |
![]() We don't have a pure democracy. We operate under a Constitutional Republic. Thank God you geniuses aren't running the place
Beat the Evil Empire. BEAT MIAMI
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GustavBahler
Posts: 41842 Alba Posts: 15 Joined: 7/12/2010 Member: #3186 |
![]() izybx wrote:We don't have a pure democracy. We operate under a Constitutional Republic. Thank God you geniuses aren't running the place True, thats our system. At the same time, some of the founding fathers warned anyone who would listen of the very real dangers of unchecked corporate power. This tax bill is the end result of us not listening. We can pretend its the fault of just one party, but this has been a tag team affair, each playing their part. It goes back to the switch about 40 years ago from Stakeholder Capitalism, to Shareholder Capitalism. Reward the shareholders above all, never mind anything else. Works out great if you own enough shares of something to really matter. Thats not the case for most Americans because wages have been flat for the better part of 40 years. Decent wages for the poor and middle class hurts the stock price you know. Not enough the market is at an all time high, never is. Thats what our founding fathers tried to warn us about. |
nixluva
Posts: 56258 Alba Posts: 0 Joined: 10/5/2004 Member: #758 USA |
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Posts: 56258 Alba Posts: 0 Joined: 10/5/2004 Member: #758 USA |
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arkrud
Posts: 32217 Alba Posts: 7 Joined: 8/31/2005 Member: #995 USA |
![]() Its cool that American Middle class has a goose to be cooked.
Most of the world population have no goose, and many have nothing to eat at all... As a citizen of Empire I am satisfied. Hail to the Emperor and Senators!!! All we need is more Bread-with-butter and Entertainment. As for the rest of the world... they will get their shot sooner or later but not in my lifetime. "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." Hamlet
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GustavBahler
Posts: 41842 Alba Posts: 15 Joined: 7/12/2010 Member: #3186 |
![]() arkrud wrote:Its cool that American Middle class has a goose to be cooked. The clarion call of the enabler. We also dont have Universal Health care, maternity leave, clean water, well funded schools, an infrastructure that isnt bordering on complete failure. A government that represents all classes either. Guess we have to wait until we become Somalia to complain. Deregulation worked out great for them. |
knicks1248
Posts: 42059 Alba Posts: 1 Joined: 2/3/2004 Member: #582 |
![]() You have to cheat, lie, and manipulate to get ahead of the curve in america. Why would this sht surprise anyone
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arkrud
Posts: 32217 Alba Posts: 7 Joined: 8/31/2005 Member: #995 USA |
![]() GustavBahler wrote:arkrud wrote:Its cool that American Middle class has a goose to be cooked. We do not have many things but we have freedom for everyone to accept the live and things we have or move on to any other place where life is better. "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." Hamlet
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arkrud
Posts: 32217 Alba Posts: 7 Joined: 8/31/2005 Member: #995 USA |
![]() knicks1248 wrote:You have to cheat, lie, and manipulate to get ahead of the curve in america. Why would this sht surprise anyone This is how human civilization in general works everywhere. In most places much more so that in US, in some may be slightly less. "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." Hamlet
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Moonangie
Posts: 24757 Alba Posts: 5 Joined: 7/9/2009 Member: #2788 |
![]() knicks1248 wrote:You have to cheat, lie, and manipulate to get ahead of the curve in america. Why would this sht surprise anyone Wrong, on so many levels. |
GustavBahler
Posts: 41842 Alba Posts: 15 Joined: 7/12/2010 Member: #3186 |
![]() arkrud wrote:GustavBahler wrote:arkrud wrote:Its cool that American Middle class has a goose to be cooked. We used to have some measure of freedom. They say 9/11 changed everything. From a legal standpoint it did. Many laws were passed that nullify most of the Bill of Rights. Passed during both Republican and Democratic administrations. Debtors prisons have been brought back for the poor. We have the highest incarceration rate in the world. Run increasingly for profit by private corporations, who are often also friends with judges who send them the business, so to speak. Often non-violent drug offenders. Speaking of drugs we have an opiod epidemic thats very similar to what happened after the collapse of the old Soviet Union, but alcohol being the drug of choice there. Wages are so stagnant that its hard for people to just get up and move. Many are locked into mortgages they can't walk away from. Most families are one paycheck short of disaster. Thats not freedom. I understand America's hypocrisy when if comes to how it approaches the world. At the same time, if you really do feel a bond to this country of ours, the current state of our country, and the incredible amount of suffering that it is inflicting on many millions of people, it should keep you from making sick jokes about the suffering of others. The bill that was just passed is going to send a lot more people in the coming years to the hospital, or the morgue. Its unavoidable. Thats how bad this bill is. Some communities have always suffered more in bad times, and they will get hit the hardest. This is all being done to make a handful of rich billionaires, who collectively already have as much wealth as half the country, to have even more. Its beyond a kink in the system. Its the middle ages, complete with a denial of science. |
nixluva
Posts: 56258 Alba Posts: 0 Joined: 10/5/2004 Member: #758 USA |
![]() These bastards!!!
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arkrud
Posts: 32217 Alba Posts: 7 Joined: 8/31/2005 Member: #995 USA |
![]() GustavBahler wrote:arkrud wrote:GustavBahler wrote:arkrud wrote:Its cool that American Middle class has a goose to be cooked. Suffering of the people of the world is not a joke. Its real. "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." Hamlet
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