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Egalitarian Thug

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39. That's what I said. What I didn't say is that the two parties are the same, they aren't.
Tue Nov 27, 2012, 02:34 PM
Nov 2012

But I did write that they both work for the same people and share the same objectives. That is also the point of the teaparty distraction. By creating this corporate financed tool from the real anger and disappointment of a minority, they effectively distract people from the goals that the powerful, regardless of party distinction, are working toward. Don't be fooled into believing that it will ever be allowed any real power to change anything from what their puppet masters want.

To use a current issue here as an example... looking at the replies and number of recommendations of an overwhelming majority of members on this site, it is clear that we know that the "fiscal cliff" is BS, that more cuts to beneficial programs are not necessary, that what problems do exist can be addressed with significant cuts to the trough of graft that the powerful feed at, and that we will not stand for stealing yet more from the least of us. But here we are, hearing administration and party spokespeople repeating the same lies over and over as justification for doing just that.

Oh... NOW... I Get It... [View all] WillyT Nov 2012 OP
Having a tyne Nov 2012 #1
What is the average yearly income? nadinbrzezinski Nov 2012 #2
Mid 40s vs almost 200K -> Just got a cool graphic from FB about that ... patrice Nov 2012 #12
This message was self-deleted by its author patrice Nov 2012 #13
Nice Graphic november3rd Nov 2012 #45
I'd LOVE To Have Your Problems... WillyT Nov 2012 #3
No shit obxhead Nov 2012 #11
I am in the same boat Illinoischick Nov 2012 #17
I think you're out of touch ... GeorgeGist Nov 2012 #6
Must be nice. MrSlayer Nov 2012 #8
I keep reading articles about how much you need spinbaby Nov 2012 #44
Well my net worth is about $4000. Illinoischick Nov 2012 #16
No, that has not happened to xxqqqzme Nov 2012 #26
And they don't even count the people who lost so much they had to zero out their meager Egalitarian Thug Nov 2012 #28
Re Jericoni Nov 2012 #33
I have a continuing 0 net worth Hydra Nov 2012 #40
So while the rest of us KT2000 Nov 2012 #4
... CrispyQ Nov 2012 #5
THANK YOU !!! WillyT Nov 2012 #7
+1 hrmjustin Nov 2012 #9
We need term limits and we need the revolving door between SomethingFishy Nov 2012 #10
How would that happen when the people who make the laws tblue37 Nov 2012 #21
And that is the million dollar question. CrispyQ Nov 2012 #31
Got me man... SomethingFishy Nov 2012 #46
We need a fundamental change in how our government is constituted and under what rules Egalitarian Thug Nov 2012 #29
Regarding the House: Here's a petition to recognize the Tea Party as a treasonous hate group: patrice Nov 2012 #14
The tea party is a distraction, nothing more. We have a fundamentally dysfunctional government Egalitarian Thug Nov 2012 #30
I agree that the 2 parties are similar - BUT not! the same & just as differences between you and patrice Nov 2012 #36
That's what I said. What I didn't say is that the two parties are the same, they aren't. Egalitarian Thug Nov 2012 #39
They go up there without a pot to piss in... kentuck Nov 2012 #15
I don't think they go up there poor hfojvt Nov 2012 #20
No "almost" about it. 2naSalit Nov 2012 #24
well, you do not have to be rich to RUN for Congress hfojvt Nov 2012 #25
Very true. kentuck Nov 2012 #37
The part about the Clintons is related yet unrelated Hydra Nov 2012 #41
the Clintons were hardly poor hfojvt Nov 2012 #43
to reverse Lincoln hfojvt Nov 2012 #18
Another look at this issue: patrice Nov 2012 #19
And we have the gall to call it a representative democracy. CrispyQ Nov 2012 #32
I've been meaning to look at that source to see what I think of it, but it's an INTERESTING graphic patrice Nov 2012 #34
I suspect this is BS. A million is a lot to most of us, but not to the wiggs Nov 2012 #22
Absolutely right. How can anyone seriously think that only 250 of them have more than $1 million? AnotherMcIntosh Nov 2012 #27
I think this too Hydra Nov 2012 #42
Huh. There's that pesky "47%" number again. chalky Nov 2012 #23
We have been tooting this HORN for Years!!! mstinamotorcity2 Nov 2012 #35
I've always said that 4_TN_TITANS Nov 2012 #38
Kick !!! WillyT Nov 2012 #47
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