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Lifelong Protester

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4. This is insanity

Reply to HiPointDem (Original post)

Tue Dec 11, 2012, 07:25 PM

Dec 2012

do the rich robber barons not know their history? They keep pushing, and pushing, and pretty soon, you won't be able to get the angry toothpaste back in the tube. Pretty soon, nobody will have anything to lose, and finally sit down, walk out, whatever it takes to shut this down.

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The Coup In Michigan That The Press Is Ignoring [View all] HiPointDem Dec 2012 OP

du is ignoring it too, it seems. remarkably little attention to what's going on in MI. It ain't HiPointDem Dec 2012 #1

Class warfare nineteen50 Dec 2012 #11

fascist coup, harder-core than everyday class warfare HiPointDem Dec 2012 #19

Maybe it ought to be a criminal offense for a politician to limpyhobbler Dec 2012 #2

I am beyond disturbed by this gollygee Dec 2012 #3

This is insanity Lifelong Protester Dec 2012 #4

K & R !!! WillyT Dec 2012 #5

Courts have to decide whether public employee salaries, benefits, retirements etc are on the block jody Dec 2012 #6

K&R woo me with science Dec 2012 #7

We need to figure out how to get real news to the majority of the public.nm rhett o rick Dec 2012 #10

General Strike warrprayer Dec 2012 #8

The answer! Every fucking person that works in Michigan, every working man and woman should lonestarnot Dec 2012 #23

kick DonRedwood Dec 2012 #9

Michigan Passes "Right to Work" Containing Verbatim Language from ALEC Model Bill midnight Dec 2012 #12

Bus in the teamsters, longshoremen, pipefitters and anarchists. lonestarnot Dec 2012 #24

I read that Wisconsin union workers came to support Michigan... midnight Dec 2012 #25

Some richie rich leftie needs to throw down and put his/her money in the pot to sustain a long-term lonestarnot Dec 2012 #27

My 2 cents... ReRe Dec 2012 #13

considering there will probably be some number of bankruptcies (or fake bankruptcies) of cities, HiPointDem Dec 2012 #20

Exactly ReRe Dec 2012 #21

i don't quite get what you mean by left turn. HiPointDem Dec 2012 #22

What I meant was... ReRe Dec 2012 #26

Our little city mngr is making over 300K annually here. lonestarnot Dec 2012 #28

NPR was all over this story today. Multiple times, fyi riderinthestorm Dec 2012 #14

The country has ignored Michigan for a long time 1gobluedem Dec 2012 #15

Maybe it would help if Lindsay Lohan would call a press conference and say a few words. AnotherMcIntosh Dec 2012 #16

K&R hay rick Dec 2012 #17

K&R'd. And . . . snot Dec 2012 #18

Either it's life's biggest mystery.... ReRe Dec 2012 #29

k&R limpyhobbler Dec 2012 #30