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Free market system = $2

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 22:11:41 +0000

In reply to In a two party system, the

Free market system = $2 trillion no strings free money for banks to not loan to people?

Afghanistan 30,000 troop war of necessity 2001 w Osama bin Laden = Afghanistan 100,000 troop war of necessity 2012 w/o Osama bin Laden?

"Transparency" = prosecuting reporters for reporting malfeasance in programs?

"Closing Gitmo" = running a black site in Bagram?

Anti-Patriot Act = FISA support & extension?

"Ending Bush Era Tax Cuts" = "Extending Bush Era Tax Cuts"?

You've seen all the arguments and you can still rationalize them every time

Well Mitt could fire him. And

NCD — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 21:37:56 +0000

In reply to I happen to know that Donal,

Well Mitt could fire him. And enjoy doing it. I just think we should all wait and watch all the political commercials the billionaires are buying because they are really really nice guys who think we deserve a leader like Mitt subjugating us and our futures.

Technically it produced 2 -

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 19:52:42 +0000

In reply to Shucks,.... maybe just a

Technically it produced 2 - for & against.

just the kind of pathetic

Elusive Trope — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 19:44:35 +0000

In reply to Unless of course you want to

just the kind of pathetic response I have come to expect.

Shucks,.... maybe just a

Resistance — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 19:25:09 +0000

In reply to Stirring the hornet's nest,

Shucks,.... maybe just a little?

That speech wasn't boring though, it generated a lot of opinions.

Stirring the hornet's nest,

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 19:21:26 +0000

In reply to Unless of course you want to

Stirring the hornet's nest, ain't ya, bud?

"I think everybody's got to

Resistance — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 19:18:37 +0000

In reply to There may have been more he

"I think everybody's got to make some adjustments"

So you union members need to adjust?

Try kneeling, or bending over and touching your toes you'll get used to it. Consider it physical therapy.

Obama "You'll still get the recognition, you just wont have the income or the perks........ but you'll get recognition?

Send me $5.00 and I'll buy you a cup of coffee and give you recognition.

Unless of course you want to

Resistance — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 19:06:58 +0000

In reply to In Wisconsin, they were

Unless of course you want to slam liberals, for spitting on soldiers?

There may have been more he

Elusive Trope — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 18:57:49 +0000

In reply to In Wisconsin, they were

There may have been more he could have done, but they did have his backing.

Obama accused Scott Walker, the state's new Republican governor, of unleashing an "assault" on unions in pushing emergency legislation that would change future collective-bargaining agreements that affect most public employees, including teachers.

The president's political machine worked in close coordination Thursday with state and national union officials to get thousands of protesters to gather in Madison and to plan similar demonstrations in other state capitals.

"Some of what I've heard coming out of Wisconsin, where they're just making it harder for public employees to collectively bargain generally, seems like more of an assault on unions," Obama told a Milwaukee television reporter on Thursday, taking the unusual step of inviting a local TV station into the White House for a sit-down interview. "I think everybody's got to make some adjustments, but I think it's also important to recognize that public employees make enormous contributions to our states and our citizens."

plausible in the near future

Resistance — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 18:57:04 +0000

In reply to If you truly believe its

plausible in the near future to get someone who is going to overturn the military-industrial complex into the WH,

not in the near future or ever; as long as the two capitalist parties can prevent it.

We have this military/industrial complex because of war profiteers. Capitalist interests must be preserved or expanded.

The bible speaks revolution to you,

No, it only foretells. just as Marx the atheist foretold.

Just as Debs warned; but the capitalists so smug, thinking they can avert the revolution, the upheaval, the throwing off of the yoke.

The people will tire, of the manipulation, by the two capitalist parties.

Egpyt, Spain, Greece just a few examples of the people rejecting the continuance of an old order; that enriches some by enslaving others.

Foretold..... Not my wish, but the capitalists didn't heed the warnings. They thought to contain the genie in the bottle.

Foretold that the people ("The sea would become agitated")

The people wont stand for an order that enslaves them to serve Capitalism. The people told "Yours is not to reason why, but to do and die"

Order was the capitalists to lose. if they were to be viewed as self serving.

Bringing to mind the Biblically recorded vision of "The ten toes of iron and mixed clay"

The foundation of the Iron rule of the capitalist order; will find the clay(mankind) will not bond and that weakness will bring about it's end.