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babylonsister

(170,964 posts)
Mon Apr 9, 2012, 09:01 AM Apr 2012

Ask the Conservatives

http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2012/4/9/0443/17267

Ask the Conservatives

by BooMan
Mon Apr 9th, 2012 at 12:04:43 AM EST


There are two reasons why this is happening. There are two reasons, for example, why Atlas Van Lines can't find anyone to drive its trucks in Louisville, and why Dallas can only afford to give job training to 43 out of the 23,500 people who have lost their jobs in the last 10 weeks.

The first reason is that conservatives are assholes and they refuse to do anything to help anyone if it costs any taxpayers any money.

The second reason is that conservatives bankrupted this country by slashing taxes on rich people, committing us to over a decade of war in Asia, enacting massive (and poorly designed) new federal programs and entitlements, and failing to regulate Wall Street.

And, no, increasing education spending, creating a drug benefit under Medicare, and liberating Iraq from the tyranny of Saddam Hussein didn't cost the taxpayers any money because conservatives borrowed every dime they spent to do those things. And then they told us that we had to make the middle class foot the bill for it and the poor to take the brunt of the cost of balancing the budget hole they created.


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Set aside the war or women, or gays, or blacks, or Latinos, the middle class. Just focus on the most basic stuff. All across this country people are suffering for the simple reason that conservatives already have too much power.

The idea that they might gain more power should be a complete non-starter for everyone but the most selfish people in the highest tax brackets.
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Ask the Conservatives (Original Post) babylonsister Apr 2012 OP
I agree with that 100%, babylonsister Kath1 Apr 2012 #1

Kath1

(4,309 posts)
1. I agree with that 100%, babylonsister
Mon Apr 9, 2012, 09:09 AM
Apr 2012

I think the people, women in particular, are starting to realize that this is true.

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