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Showing Original Post only (View all)If Only Our Glorious Leaders Put as Much Effort into Making People’s Lives Better [View all]
as they did into tracking us and covering their own asses
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If the number of people, the amount of money, and the all the work that was put into the NSA spying programs had instead been funneled into single-payer healthcare, or alternative energy programs, our country would be in far, far better shape than it is now.
If all the effort that has been used to catch, demonize and punish whistleblowers - from Manning and Kiriakou to Assange and Snowden had been put toward a campaign to bring back good paying jobs and quality education
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Really, what kind of country do we want to be?
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20score
Jul 2013
OP
I share your passion. All of that money could be going into all of the schools which they're closing
Fire Walk With Me
Jul 2013
#8
This whole circus puts to lie everything they've said about how they can't get things done
Hydra
Jul 2013
#5
Seach GD for posts on the TPP, by Alan Grayson as well as one discussing Obama's transparency
Fire Walk With Me
Jul 2013
#13
Snowden has forced national and international conversation on this ugly topic.
Fire Walk With Me
Jul 2013
#11
What a novel idea! I wonder the same thing all the time. Everyone of the boneheads in power who go
gtar100
Jul 2013
#18
You won't have any of these good programs anytime before private money is banned from politics
Amonester
Jul 2013
#25
That can't just simply be done, because enough of our fellow citizens don't want it
treestar
Jul 2013
#57