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kenny blankenship

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11. It's a real hoot watching a party that claims we have the right to kill children

Reply to Zalatix (Original post)

Tue Jun 26, 2012, 11:33 AM

Jun 2012

on the other side of the world in order to kill possibly unknown, unnamed terrorists, who may at some future time harbor other terrorists, who may attack the United States, because such is the zealous loyalty which patriotic Americans owe to each other, and such is the duty of the President to guard our welfare...

...then turn around and claim we have no right to "hoard jobs" for our fellow citizens.

Yep, it's been a real hoot.

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It's America's duty to export jobs to the third world to make their lives better. [View all] Zalatix Jun 2012 OP

Workers of the world, unite! FarCenter Jun 2012 #1

Capital has globalized - and so must workers TBF Jun 2012 #2

The only way I see out of this is to localize. Work toward each region in the world becoming as self jwirr Jun 2012 #3

That's the best approach to localization that I've seen yet. Zalatix Jun 2012 #13

The model that is presented to developing countries is that they should let Western Lydia Leftcoast Jun 2012 #4

good points. moreover, which countries were BOG PERSON Jun 2012 #9

Right, during the 1980s the Reaganites blasted Nicaragua for its land reform efforts (as the Lydia Leftcoast Jun 2012 #12

NAFTA anyone? Puzzledtraveller Jun 2012 #5

Nice try but my job and millions of others were off shored 10 years before NAFTA NNN0LHI Jun 2012 #6

Does that mean that no one else's job was offshored due to NAFTA? brentspeak Jun 2012 #7

No, it means more people should have thought about this 10 years before NAFTA NNN0LHI Jun 2012 #8

the Giant Sucking Sound!! CleanLucre Jun 2012 #10

It's a real hoot watching a party that claims we have the right to kill children kenny blankenship Jun 2012 #11

I believe the new term for unknown, unnamed terrorists is hughee99 Jun 2012 #14

Of course the healthy fattening of corporate bottom lines is just a nice side-effect, right? Populist_Prole Jun 2012 #15