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HughBeaumont
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Member since: Fri Aug 13, 2004, 03:12 PM
Number of posts: 24,461
Number of posts: 24,461
About Me
If anyone's wondering why I haven't been here much lately, it's because I feel no one is learning anything from 2016.
Neoliberalism is a thing and it doesn't win elections in the 21st Century.
People want a candidate that's going to take strong, non-waffling stands on human rights the rest of the world enjoys. Enough living in the goddamned Reagan 1980s. Enough taking solar panels off the roof. Enough introducing more rightwingedness into American economics. Enough medical bankruptcies. Enough governing by mythology. Enough science denial. Enough of spitting on women, children, veterans and the LGBTQI community. Enough kicking the can. ENOUGH. America needs to move past it's "everything has to be about making a buck" bullshit.
I'd prefer a candidate not born during the FDR/Truman administrations. No offense, but you had your time . . . and you got us Trump. Plus, I can't take another one of these still-Capitalist Boomer codgers yap on about "bootstraps" when college now costs a mortgage, necessity costs have been outpacing wage growth for 20 years and automation promises to kill more jobs than it creates.
I don't want to hear what is or isn't "politically achievable". Kick-the-Can economics was never asked "How is it going to be paid for?". Tax Cuts for the rich were never given a spending limit. Folly wars were never asked "Why is this necessary?". Corporate Pork by the billions was and is always approved.
America's safety net needs to be greatly expanded and retirement age needs to be drastically lowered. This country throws out far too many people that still have a decade or two of prime contribution left. If life doesn't get fairer for you or I pretty goddamned quickly, we aren't going to have much of one.
Journal Archives
Huntsman is looking pretty . . . Orange on CNBC.
Posted by HughBeaumont | Thu Aug 30, 2012, 08:06 AM (1 replies)
"Obama has doubled the National Debt" - Kat$hit (R - SlowHio)
Posted by HughBeaumont | Wed Aug 29, 2012, 08:43 AM (0 replies)
21st Century Corporate America (and Romney's Presidency) Summed Up in One Onion Article:
Posted by HughBeaumont | Thu Aug 16, 2012, 05:02 PM (0 replies)
Ken Langone on CNBC . . . .my GOD, where are these people HATCHED from?
Posted by HughBeaumont | Wed Aug 15, 2012, 04:34 PM (3 replies)
"Bye Bye Bain?" Not on your Repub-loving LIVES, Yahoo.
Posted by HughBeaumont | Sat Aug 11, 2012, 10:01 AM (0 replies)
Nice. This is where my kid goes to see movies (man arrested with weapons in Ohio theater).
Posted by HughBeaumont | Tue Aug 7, 2012, 12:54 PM (24 replies)
Spotted the first "ROMNEY 2012" bumper sticker of the season . . .
Posted by HughBeaumont | Tue Aug 7, 2012, 09:46 AM (12 replies)
The next time someone says "most liberal" as a prefix to Washington, challenge them:
Posted by HughBeaumont | Wed Aug 1, 2012, 01:16 PM (6 replies)
Oooops, I forgot in the midst of this busy day (DIAL UP WARNING) . . . .
Posted by HughBeaumont | Wed Aug 1, 2012, 11:54 AM (8 replies)
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