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Tigress DEM

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33. OH I'm so sorry! We didn't know you had been lynched before!!

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Thu Sep 26, 2013, 11:27 PM

Sep 2013

That changes the whole perspective!

AIG’s CEO — the CEO of a bailed out firm! — says that complaints about bonuses to executives at such firms are just as bad as lynchings (I am not making this up.)

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Rage of the Privileged ~ Paul Krugman [View all] Emit Sep 2013 OP

KNR joeybee12 Sep 2013 #1

Worse yet, it's Ancien Regime without noblesse oblige. n/t winter is coming Sep 2013 #2

or art! MisterP Sep 2013 #6

And with no revolutionary ending. Dark n Stormy Knight Sep 2013 #8

Yet.... daleanime Sep 2013 #12

neoliberalism was concocted to be revolution-proof MisterP Sep 2013 #15

Huh? Its simple..... daleanime Sep 2013 #20

even the cake will be gone libdem4life Sep 2013 #21

Latin America's often managed to do just that, so that's an important area to study MisterP Sep 2013 #22

very true..... daleanime Sep 2013 #23

It is said . . . Brigid Sep 2013 #29

Your right. If you want to see desperation... daleanime Sep 2013 #31

well, the kids are too exhausted from corporate ed reform to resist zazen Sep 2013 #51

I AM SPARTICUS...... AnneD Sep 2013 #49

k/r Dawson Leery Sep 2013 #3

It's not just the bail out. It's built into every day subsidies for oil companies, etc... cui bono Sep 2013 #4

k&r for the truth, however depressing it may be. n/t Laelth Sep 2013 #5

It's class sociopathy. The wealthy believe they are entitled to be wealthy. rhett o rick Sep 2013 #7

That's the window dressing Hydra Sep 2013 #9

I think they are sociopaths and dont recognize that they are doing anything wrong. rhett o rick Sep 2013 #11

Lloyd Blankfein has said as much Hydra Sep 2013 #14

I like your term: Misery Makers. JEB Sep 2013 #38

By all means! Hydra Sep 2013 #46

I 'had' a friend. Enthusiast Sep 2013 #17

that is why many of them quote John Calvin DonCoquixote Sep 2013 #27

Exactly. God likes them best. Dark n Stormy Knight Sep 2013 #10

Call it by what it is: Divine Right JHB Sep 2013 #45

Exactly right and I believe the TPP is going to be taking this "Divine Right" to be profitable rhett o rick Sep 2013 #47

Krugman for Chairman! Cryptoad Sep 2013 #13

That would be great. n/t Cali_Democrat Sep 2013 #25

Wall Street would never allow it. nt awoke_in_2003 Sep 2013 #41

Congress made the bills...now they don't want to pay them judesedit Sep 2013 #16

The uber rich 1% are all for trickle down fasttense Sep 2013 #18

Not to mention the outrageous retirement packages they get along with superb gov run health care at judesedit Sep 2013 #19

Republicans are getting insane... The "Takers" have jobs and work their entire lives only to die... Taitertots Sep 2013 #24

What is there not to love about how he exposes the parasites of this nation? Jefferson23 Sep 2013 #26

k&r Electric Monk Sep 2013 #28

krugman nails it again arely staircase Sep 2013 #30

K&R. pacalo Sep 2013 #32

OH I'm so sorry! We didn't know you had been lynched before!! Tigress DEM Sep 2013 #33

Kicked and recommended. Uncle Joe Sep 2013 #34

too bad that Krugman wants HIS tax cuts too hfojvt Sep 2013 #35

His argument was for tax relief and absorbing debt to pump up the economy. harun Sep 2013 #39

try a few thousand, not a few hundred hfojvt Sep 2013 #48

Nice try. Attacking the messenger doesn't change the message. Raffi Ella Sep 2013 #50

except the message is wrong hfojvt Sep 2013 #52

It is ‘gas lighting‘ on the part of rich. They applegrove Sep 2013 #36

Good article. Thank you! emsimon33 Sep 2013 #37

Those poor rich bastards /sarcasm off/ SHRED Sep 2013 #40

knr Douglas Carpenter Sep 2013 #42

Why isn't Krugman treasury sec? Puzzledtraveller Sep 2013 #43

And the Government shut down The People when they rose up against it. Raffi Ella Sep 2013 #44