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In reply to the discussion: Woman weeps to senator over Social Security cuts: "There's no way for me to eat less!" [View all]silvershadow
(10,336 posts)while I appreciate what you think you are trying to do, in my mind I can't help but categorize you as either a professional disruptor (don't take offense, that's what my mind is doing right now, and such people are all over the tubes, especially on sites such as our own) or else very, very young and naive. We haven't talked yet about the 80/20 part, which i what really set me off anyway. Because by focusing on your rice and beans argument for the 80, you do two things in my mind: You focus only on the 80, which many/most politicians, talking heads, etc like to do because it's the 20 that are the most costly on our system, and more importantly you assume that no one in the 80 has a disease that excludes rice or beans in whole or in part as a real option. It sounds more to me like R-wing crap, stuff you might find on Rimjob's site. It's the prism I look through, always, when dealing with issues, so I can be a little rough around the edges for some. I'm also busy trying to get our party back to it's roots, so you will find to to be the left of the left on a lot of stuff- you know, a good, old-fashioned, yellow-dog Democrat (The kind that used to be around before Raygun destroyed this country, aided an abetted by third-way Democrats).