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Romulox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-02-09 11:19 AM
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9. All of our money is earmarked for war and corporate bailouts.
We "can't afford" to rebuild our infrastructure; there's schools in Pakistan that must be first bombed and then rebuilt!
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  -The Truth About Jobs That No One Wants to Tell You kentuck  Oct-02-09 11:02 AM   #0 
  - Exactly.  cliffordu   Oct-02-09 11:03 AM   #1 
  - Infrastructure spending is also preliminary to any hope of reinvigorating manufacturing...  Junkdrawer   Oct-02-09 11:06 AM   #2 
  - But we need WAR money for WEAPONS. That's all that matters in this  valerief   Oct-02-09 11:09 AM   #3 
  - Sickening, ain't it?  SammyWinstonJack   Oct-02-09 11:11 AM   #7 
  - I ahve an idea. Why not bring all the soldiers home and they can help with  robinlynne   Oct-02-09 11:31 AM   #15 
     - But how would that help the robber barons? That would only help us. nt  valerief   Oct-02-09 12:04 PM   #17 
  - That's the ticket. Absolutely. n/t  Triana   Oct-02-09 11:10 AM   #4 
  - Forget roads and bridges...we should have been redoing our  dkf   Oct-02-09 11:11 AM   #5 
  - We've also gotten the stimulus from Obama.  Cant trust em   Oct-02-09 11:16 AM   #8 
  - Right. We need energy independence and and end to "free trade."  JDPriestly   Oct-02-09 11:30 AM   #13 
     - I wonder how there was enough work to do on all those  dkf   Oct-02-09 11:53 AM   #16 
        - Mad Max is the future, not the Jetsons  Ezlivin   Oct-02-09 12:21 PM   #18 
  - America's house is on fire and Republicans are griping about the cost of the water hose. nt  Cant trust em   Oct-02-09 11:11 AM   #6 
  - All of our money is earmarked for war and corporate bailouts.  Romulox   Oct-02-09 11:19 AM   #9 
  - It's time to raise revenue to cover the costs  Warpy   Oct-02-09 11:21 AM   #10 
  - If we weren't spending a Trillion Dollars ANNUALLY on war....  paparush   Oct-02-09 11:24 AM   #11 
  - I'd like to believe Robert Reich . . .  HughBeaumont   Oct-02-09 11:29 AM   #12 
  - There's no profit in building roads, bridges and schools  leftstreet   Oct-02-09 11:31 AM   #14 
  - Sad but true.  Quantess   Oct-02-09 09:03 PM   #19 
  - The point is to put us in line with the other low wage countries  nightgaunt   Oct-03-09 04:17 PM   #20 
  - Spending on infrastructure is never, ever wasted, and is the key to recovery.  Brickbat   Oct-03-09 04:18 PM   #21 
  - I see Reich also read Keynes  nadinbrzezinski   Oct-03-09 04:19 PM   #22 
 

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