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What you write is nothing but

Tommy Holmes — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 03:33:58 +0000

What you write is nothing but dead on truth. What has been done was carefully planned. The agenda of the Right is to make government there own personal tool; mostly to be used to further business interests. They wish to disregard the part in the Constitution that spells out the ROLE OF GOVERNMENT; the part that states that of the roles is to PROMOTE THE GENERAL WELFARE. Their idea is to create a government that promotes only THEIR WELFARE. Just look to history. When two of the safety nets were created (S.S. in 1935 and Medicare in 1965) not one Republican voted for either of these programs. The Republicans have been after these entitlements for years. The Right wants to whittle down government to the point where it's only function is to protect and further THEIR interests. Government must work for everyone, not just the one's running it and their cronies. Keep writing folks, hopefully public option still carries enough weight to effect change. We must keep working to get government back to the task of serving the people and out of the hands of special interests.

Last November, the NYT had an

NCD — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 17:10:38 +0000

In reply to Attack Of The Rich

Last November, the NYT had an interactive feature where you could reduce or eliminate the budget deficit in 2015 and on to 2030. It really wasn't that hard to eliminate the deficit if taxes were raised, especially on high incomes and the dead rich, and the military spending was reduced. NYT Budget Feature You could go into surplus with small adjustments to Medicare, none to SSec., as long as you were willing to return to Clinton tax rates and cut the war spending.

Or Newt.

we are stardust — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 16:33:46 +0000

In reply to Now if Nixon were alive

Or Newt.

Nice, destor. I think that

Michael Wolraich — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 16:27:10 +0000

In reply to Attack Of The Rich

Nice, destor. I think that your approach is best way to frame the liberal economic position.

The argument that wealth should be redistributed just doesn't appeal to most Americans. Too socialist.

The argument that deficits don't matter is simply wrong. You can argue that the U.S. should continue to carry a deficit until the economy improves, but that doesn't mean that we can keep growing national debt indefinitely.

The argument that the rich are conspiring to repress the poor is a bullshit scare tactic.

But the argument that the rich are selfishly refusing to fulfill their national obligations--that's a winner. Rather than denying the country's fiscal problems, it turns the Tea Party lament on its head. The problems are real. They've been caused by the profligacy of our leaders. It's time to tighten our belts--by demanding responsibility from the people who live in splendor rather than increasing the suffering of the poor.

Now if Nixon were alive

AmericanDreamer — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 15:00:39 +0000

In reply to Cripes, so would Nixon!

Now if Nixon were alive today...wouldn't you just love to see the "moderate" Nixon of his presidential years (except in re to trampling on the Constitution, heinously bombing countries we weren't even at war with, being a pioneer innovator in creative demonization of one's political adversaries, and a few other things here and there) and his henchmen duke it out with Norquist and the Koch brothers and other leaders of the drown-the-government-in-the-bathtub brigade for control of the GOP?

Cripes, so would Nixon!

we are stardust — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 14:51:43 +0000

In reply to If Dr. King were alive today

Cripes, so would Nixon!

Yeah, gotta love that Dem

Obey — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 14:42:01 +0000

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Yeah, gotta love that Dem message machine. This lunatic comes out with a proposal to cut health care outright for the poor, the helpless, the infirm and the elderly, and what do the Dems say?

"Courageous man!"

If Dr. King were alive today

AmericanDreamer — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 14:31:38 +0000

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If Dr. King were alive today he would be urging his followers to rise up and reject riches for the classes and austerity for the masses.