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Reply to woo me with science (Original post)

Fri Dec 21, 2012, 12:13 PM

Dec 2012

We have ALREADY been sold out to austerity.

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If the only options put before you are beating a puppy or killing a puppy, beating the puppy is still not a win.

...summarize your post and everyone of them:

Doom, gloom and more doom. Don't be happy with any progress. As a progressive, you're powerless and should just drop out because no one listens to you.

There is no deal...move on, and that means still reject cuts and advocate programs that benefit people.

There is no need to spend countless hours trying to define Obama as evil and the Democrats as sellouts.

Those are not policies.

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We have ALREADY been sold out to austerity. The game will not change until we correct the narrative. [View all] woo me with science Dec 2012 OP

Let me ProSense Dec 2012 #1

Of course austerity is policy. woo me with science Dec 2012 #19

"the Democrats" are not sellouts. The sellouts are the internationalist Democratic politicians. AnotherMcIntosh Dec 2012 #29

"austerity" "Shock Doctrine" "Third Way" "corporatists" FSogol Dec 2012 #2

So now Obama, who was absolutely positively going to cave, but who didn't cave, is still evil. JoePhilly Dec 2012 #3

Keep trying to make it about being mean to Obama. woo me with science Dec 2012 #4

But I thought we wanted Obama to stand up to Boehner and the GOP even if that meant JoePhilly Dec 2012 #5

And there you start at Step 2, woo me with science Dec 2012 #6

Have they taken SS off the table yet? Get back to us when the President sabrina 1 Dec 2012 #28

If it looks like a cave, sounds like a cave, and the President agrees it's a cave, MannyGoldstein Dec 2012 #30

Austerity, during a recession, is always the wrong choice and it's been tried and failed each time. byeya Dec 2012 #7

Exactly. We need to talk about what they are NOT proposing. woo me with science Dec 2012 #9

Bridges, municipal water purification systems; parks; hospitals; schools, etc, should be our byeya Dec 2012 #12

Amen. Everything Democrats *should* be fighting for woo me with science Dec 2012 #13

They are also not proposing fixing SS by returning money to the trust fund they "borrowed" AndyA Dec 2012 #31

You got that right. woo me with science Dec 2012 #32

K&R Agree with every word. forestpath Dec 2012 #8

K&R! Fire Walk With Me Dec 2012 #10

Time to correct the narrative. Time to demand real, positive change. woo me with science Dec 2012 #11

Sorry Woo, but this is what I think being caught in the event horizon means. TheKentuckian Dec 2012 #33

Good points. I think I agree with everything you said here. woo me with science Dec 2012 #34

The 1% are hoarding - that's right, hoarding - more money than in the history of humankind. reformist2 Dec 2012 #14

+10000 woo me with science Dec 2012 #17

18,500 workers at hostess have lost, or are losing, their livlihoods while the private capital byeya Dec 2012 #15

+10000 woo me with science Dec 2012 #18

yep, limpyhobbler Dec 2012 #16

Absolutely. These are moral issues. woo me with science Dec 2012 #20

there's another narrative you are missing hfojvt Dec 2012 #21

Thank you for adding this. woo me with science Dec 2012 #24

Nothing gets fixed mick063 Dec 2012 #22

Damn, that's a scary graph. woo me with science Dec 2012 #25

This horrid situation could be fixed with EFCA and modernization of national labor law. byeya Dec 2012 #27

Don't forget why austerity was imposed. Obama was the one who insisted that SS be "fixed" Leopolds Ghost Dec 2012 #23

Excellent point. woo me with science Dec 2012 #26