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bluestate10

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9. You convince yourself that they have that power over you. BS. They don't have it unless you grant it

Fri Nov 16, 2012, 06:31 PM

Nov 2012

to them.

I watch the posts where the posters are tugging at their asses bemoaning manufacturing going away from America, or Unions being busted. But when posters like Omaha Steve post alternatives that ANY of us can buy, there is not fucking response, or at least no enough.

Some people on this site can continue to relish in their self appointed role as professional victims. I am no fucking victim, I make my own choices. I don't give a shit about the 1% or corporations because neither control me, I control them. They need me more than I fucking need them.

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The US ruling class are traitors who are deliberately dismantling US productive capacity, [View all] HiPointDem Nov 2012 OP

Because we let them. Sekhmets Daughter Nov 2012 #1

In Ohio our teabagger friends elected some real doozies. peace13 Nov 2012 #2

I'm not talking politics...I'm talking about the fact that we continue to buy stuff not made here, Sekhmets Daughter Nov 2012 #6

Teabaggers elected those people because a lot of the Left sat home in 2010 because they were upset bluestate10 Nov 2012 #13

certainly. but part of the reason we let them is because they control our information HiPointDem Nov 2012 #3

You convince yourself that they have that power over you. BS. They don't have it unless you grant it bluestate10 Nov 2012 #9

Amen! Sekhmets Daughter Nov 2012 #14

I don't "convince myself" of anything. I just have to look around. I have no idea HiPointDem Nov 2012 #18

I don't want to be rude, Sekhmets Daughter Nov 2012 #12

no idea what your point is. and yes, american manufacturers indeed "do that today".they HiPointDem Nov 2012 #19

Sorry it flew over your head. I'll aim lower next time. Sekhmets Daughter Nov 2012 #22

you do that little thing, and bless your little heart. HiPointDem Nov 2012 #26

Thanks. Sekhmets Daughter Nov 2012 #27

We can and should be developing and patronizing alternatives. bluestate10 Nov 2012 #4

Exactly. Sekhmets Daughter Nov 2012 #8

who is this "we" who should be doing that? I first heard the ideas you're espousing HiPointDem Nov 2012 #20

tragically, yes, that is the very short version of the truth HereSince1628 Nov 2012 #7

I think the truth is much more painful HereSince1628 Nov 2012 #5

Started with Regan yrs. ago ,= flight controlers ruffburr Nov 2012 #10

This round started in the 1960s, implementation began with reagan. n/t Egalitarian Thug Nov 2012 #15

The only difference between Bain (et al.) and the guys arrested in the story below: htuttle Nov 2012 #11

+1. not to mention that the corporations and mafia work together. HiPointDem Nov 2012 #23

Indeed. hifiguy Nov 2012 #24

Cant be classified as traitors. rhett o rick Nov 2012 #16

Right that they can't be classified as traitors but for wrong reason. onenote Nov 2012 #17

no? if someone came in and bombed half of us productive capacity/infrastructure HiPointDem Nov 2012 #21

Article III. Section 3. onenote Nov 2012 #29

I call destruction of productive capacity & destruction of the people "war". ymmv. HiPointDem Nov 2012 #32

I don't doubt that you do onenote Nov 2012 #34

and i don't doubt that you don't. the supreme court also held that black people HiPointDem Nov 2012 #35

Actually, the framers of the Constitution decreed the 3/5 compromise onenote Nov 2012 #36

halliburton is a company founded in the usa, by americans, with americans as its HiPointDem Nov 2012 #25

kivking it HiPointDem Nov 2012 #28

again HiPointDem Nov 2012 #33

Succinct! ~ A+ nt Zorra Nov 2012 #30

k&r Starry Messenger Nov 2012 #31