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NeoConsSuck

(2,544 posts)
Mon Dec 31, 2012, 05:28 PM Dec 2012

So, would Tom Harkin D-Iowa be a troll if he posted this in GD?

"No deal is better than a bad deal, and this looks like a very bad deal the way this is shaping up," Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, said.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/31/politics/fiscal-cliff/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

When you think that 93% of the economic gains have gone to the 1% since the Great Recession, and what we're being told to accept in these negotiations, holding the unemployed as hostages, I too feel the middle and lower class is not getting a fair shake.

I'm not just blaming Obama, I'm blaming the entire Democratic party.

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So, would Tom Harkin D-Iowa be a troll if he posted this in GD? (Original Post) NeoConsSuck Dec 2012 OP
What deal? JoePhilly Dec 2012 #1
No. He'd be a "politician" jberryhill Dec 2012 #2
But "no deal" is still really, really shitty. NYC Liberal Dec 2012 #3

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