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In reply to the discussion: Oh well the American people just a got a bipartisan fucking....... [View all]Kingwithnothrone
(51 posts)21. you didn't hear President Obama on the wide screen tv box?
We just saved the "middle class" and the poor got some ladders to fight there way up into it "if their willing to work hard enough at it and share in the sacrifice."
Sitting here waiting for that magic good time work ethic feeling to return and serving my masters while ignoring the little austerity clock behind the curtain...set to ring about two or three months in the future.
I suppose if i was a "middle class pragmatist" i would throw another log on the fire,crank up the Pat Boone music, and toast an eggnog and a little sorbet to the American Dream and another smashing victory for Capitalism.
USA USA USA
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They didn't really get raised,just went back to the top rates that existed before Chimpyshit made
kath
Jan 2013
#15
And the middle class and poor will pay much, much more than the rich.
woo me with science
Jan 2013
#23
Kee-rist...Keep moving them goal posts and calling everyone from Obama to Bernie Sanders a sellout
BeyondGeography
Jan 2013
#26
my mouth is hanging open reading down the thread. then i got to a breath of fresh air, lol. nt
seabeyond
Jan 2013
#11
Capital gain and dividend gain taxes went up too. Please explain how we all got "f*cked."
kysrsoze
Jan 2013
#8
Brown, Sanders, Franken, Kucinich, Grivalja, Ellison, pretty much the entire progressive caucus...
phleshdef
Jan 2013
#10
Indeed. If this was a 'fucking' as the OP professes, it was very much a Democratic one.
pampango
Jan 2013
#25
I know. We should've elected the Jill Stein Party, or the Roseanne Party, or the....
Tarheel_Dem
Jan 2013
#12