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Our savage economic inequality in this country is coming to a head. We talk about "spending cuts," as if what we're not really talking about is -- (link)

Posted by mara Jul 29 '11, 15:21

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"making the poor pay more for stuff." We talk as if the services that are cut will be picked up by the aching states and cities. And we talk about nonsense like "shared sacrifice," as if that's the rational position in any of this. (rudepundit.blogspot.com)

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The sacfifice is shared, by everyone... - the liioulu with sun (yes it's still humid) Jul 29, 15:29
Oh yeah, we were just talking about the fringe people rooting for revolution. - Dr.Vermin Jul 29, 15:24 23
- They are all over. It's just that the tea party is organized and influencing policy. That's the difference. -- nm - pmb Jul 29, 15:37 11
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    - That's the thing that Bill Maher is always freaking out about on Real Time. The extent to which people are voting so significantly against their own - pmb Jul 29, 15:42 9
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        Well...the less education people have, the stupider they are. -- nm - the liioulu with sun (yes it's still humid) Jul 29, 15:52
      - Half of US social program recipients believe they have never used a government program. -- (link) - mara Jul 29, 15:47 2
        
        (i.e., people are stupid) -- nm - mara Jul 29, 15:48 1
        
        Doesn't that include Michelle Bachmann? -- nm - the liioulu with sun (yes it's still humid) Jul 29, 15:51
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        Though on the plus side, that is how the American Revolution was won -- nm - Roger More Jul 29, 15:55 1
        
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        The sector that employs the most amount of people is the public sector. - the liioulu with sun (yes it's still humid) Jul 29, 15:50
- Making the poor pay for more, thus keeping them poor, isn't a revolution - it's just evolution (of capitalism). The Tea Party folks seem ... - Beryllium Jul 29, 15:26 10
  - I think he's referring to the line "goddamned greedy assholes who deserve a real Marxist revolution to take it all away." Which Vermin, of course, - mara Jul 29, 15:30 9
    - Just as literal as all the revolution-rousing ascribed to the Tea Party earlier. - Dr.Vermin Jul 29, 15:32 8
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      - The Teabaggers aren't calling for a Revolution? - Mel Profit Jul 29, 15:34 2
        
        They just want to boot all the short people out of the country -- nm - El Pollo Rojo Loco Jul 29, 15:44
        
        They may even have used that word on the signs they hold up. - the liioulu with sun (yes it's still humid) Jul 29, 15:44
      - I still want to know when they plan to get out the quaint toy china set for their pretty tea party -- nm - Beryllium Jul 29, 15:34 2
        
        All the doilies are on backorder. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Jul 29, 15:35 1
        
        well then tell them to pass the spending cut bill and make their own damn doilies. :) -- nm - Beryllium Jul 29, 15:35
      - rebel yell? - tRuMaN Jul 29, 15:33
the thing is, and I think someone on st said this today, if the US defaults, its basically a defacto tax hike - tRuMaN Jul 29, 15:23 9
- .... Obama said that. He said that the increased interest on loans, credit cards, mortgages is a de facto tax hike -- nm - Beryllium Jul 29, 15:24 8
  - aww, k. i thought i had read it on st, someone must have posted that. -- nm - tRuMaN Jul 29, 15:27 7
    - I'm sure someone did, I was just pointing out what I felt its origin might have been :) -- nm - Beryllium Jul 29, 15:28 6
      - Will you two stop talking like you don't know who said it. IT WAS ME! -- nm - El Pollo Rojo Loco Jul 29, 15:36 2
        
        You two baited me just like people bait Facto. -- nm - El Pollo Rojo Loco Jul 29, 15:36 1
        
        Heh. -- nm - mara Jul 29, 15:40
      - aww, thanks canadian person who knows more about what the us president has said then then us citizen. -- nm - tRuMaN Jul 29, 15:29 2
        
        I just happened to have CNN on in the background while doing Daddy Daycare today :) -- nm - Beryllium Jul 29, 15:30
        
        -then (second) + this -- nm - tRuMaN Jul 29, 15:29
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