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Winterblues Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-08-09 11:22 AM
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While "Perfect" may be the enemy of the "Good", so is the "not good enough to work"
I can't remember who said that recently, I think maybe Sen. Sanders, but it could stand to be repeated a few times in hopes our Congress just might hear it.
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Oregone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-08-09 11:24 AM
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1. Who the hell is recommending perfect anyway?
I hear a few people recommending a centrist pragmatic solution of single-payer instead of band-aiding a right-wing system of death and bankruptcy.
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rucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-08-09 11:33 AM
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3. Just because that works in nearly every other developed nation...
doesn't mean we should entertain those pie-in-the-sky notions like that.
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thunder rising Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-08-09 11:26 AM
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2. It's much better to have reached the pinnacle of success "Over Qualified"
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