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ejpoeta

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46. it seems people just assume they have these rights and they won't be taken away.

Wed Dec 12, 2012, 05:30 PM

Dec 2012

I am 40, so have grown up without these struggles... but I pay attention to history and see that people had to fight for these things people take for granted. I don't think they understand what they are doing.... Ann hathaway was on the today show this morning talking about les miserables and talking about her character and having to sell her body to have money for her kid. she said, they didn't have a safety net. kudos to her for that. I see them dismantling the safety net and any safeguards we have had in place to protect the workers and it scares me. I hope we don't have to find out what it was like back then. I fear we might.

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Breaking: Americans for Prosperity stages phony altercation at Michigan Right to Work rally [View all] Melinda Dec 2012 OP

Were there palm trees waving in the background too? Scuba Dec 2012 #1

I'm not sure, but I am pretty certain I saw this guy... Melinda Dec 2012 #2

Good question! n/t Grantuspeace Dec 2012 #35

Thanks Melinda for posting this. 99Forever Dec 2012 #3

i'm parlocking this thread.. frylock Dec 2012 #4

first parlock wins the thread! dionysus Dec 2012 #10

MIHOP. bleever Dec 2012 #5

Tweety had one of them on a short while ago malaise Dec 2012 #6

I saw it warrprayer Dec 2012 #15

Or maybe the DeVos family Cal Carpenter Dec 2012 #17

Steven Crowder tried to BS a fight by "union thugs" alp227 Dec 2012 #7

Daily Kos: Fox News' Steven Crowder becomes a provocateur... MinM Dec 2012 #34

It's A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall... Melinda Dec 2012 #8

more details James48 Dec 2012 #9

Spam deleted by SidDithers (MIR Team) TForbster Dec 2012 #11

VIDEO of the tent coming down Cal Carpenter Dec 2012 #12

Looks to me They_Live Dec 2012 #13

I really don't know Cal Carpenter Dec 2012 #16

I was just reading warrprayer Dec 2012 #14

Thank you for telling us about John Nelson.... ReRe Dec 2012 #36

it seems people just assume they have these rights and they won't be taken away. ejpoeta Dec 2012 #46

This is the way I look at it.... ReRe Dec 2012 #49

The frustrating thing is how short the distance in time really is. TheKentuckian Dec 2012 #54

Why are Union members THUGS and Tea Party members ACTIVISTS? benld74 Dec 2012 #18

Exactly . . . just like the GatorLarry Dec 2012 #45

K & R !!! WillyT Dec 2012 #19

What makes it so hard to deal with assholes like this is madokie Dec 2012 #20

That's right. sulphurdunn Dec 2012 #22

I sure wish labor would have a General Strike TahitiNut Dec 2012 #21

There was a lot of talk of that in Lansing today Cal Carpenter Dec 2012 #24

That would be a good step nadinbrzezinski Dec 2012 #29

I'm 100% behind the unions and would fully support a general strike. TahitiNut Dec 2012 #32

Treasonous - that's the word. History bears this out... labor will tolerate just so much. Melinda Dec 2012 #28

There's plenty of blame to go around for the fall of unions, but I know this: mountain grammy Dec 2012 #23

The GOP is responsible for this debt, period, and afaic, they could care less. Melinda Dec 2012 #27

A person who would perpetrate a false-flag is capable of anything - even stealing someone's pension. Octafish Dec 2012 #25

Or, an election. Talk about a memory spark. eom, and ty Melinda Dec 2012 #26

Agent provocateurs disrupting a demonstration by the Sanitation Workers in Memphis... MinM Dec 2012 #33

A threat to the propertied class, the landed gentry, the wealthy, old money, the establishment. Octafish Dec 2012 #56

Yeah well we are not falling for it. Fuck you faux snooze! lonestarnot Dec 2012 #30

Some have. Right on this board, although not in this thread. AnotherMcIntosh Dec 2012 #38

K&R midnight Dec 2012 #31

I knew these kinds of thugs would be up there yesterday... ReRe Dec 2012 #37

"You just don't mess with ... big brawny men ..." These are not the steel workers from 1959 or the AnotherMcIntosh Dec 2012 #39

Huffing and puffing.... ReRe Dec 2012 #43

The provocateur's wearing of an NRA cap may also be a false flag. AnotherMcIntosh Dec 2012 #40

I was there James48 Dec 2012 #41

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Republicans are scary. nt Joey Liberal Dec 2012 #44

FIGURES! I heard Hannity discussing the horrid violence! CoffeeCat Dec 2012 #47

FOX John2 Dec 2012 #48

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Enjoy your visit here n/t doc03 Dec 2012 #51

Already gone. n/t gkhouston Dec 2012 #52

They want us to thank them TimKeller Dec 2012 #53

And fox news giving them a conduit aandegoons Dec 2012 #55