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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 10:52 AM Original message |
So what ARE Americans entitled to? |
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GeorgeGist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 10:58 AM Response to Original message |
1. I'm quite sure the pundits ... |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 11:03 AM Response to Reply #1 |
4. Possibly. |
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mrreowwr_kittty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 11:02 AM Response to Original message |
2. Gee, I thought their viewers were supposed to be the True Americans |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 11:04 AM Response to Reply #2 |
5. Seems to be. |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 11:03 AM Response to Original message |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 11:07 AM Response to Reply #3 |
6. Excellent points. Here's one more you'd forgotten to mention: |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 11:15 AM Response to Reply #6 |
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DaveJ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 11:12 AM Response to Reply #3 |
9. What about when robber barons steal those rights? |
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alarimer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 11:15 AM Response to Reply #3 |
10. A just society takes care of its weakest members |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 11:18 AM Response to Reply #10 |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 11:22 AM Response to Reply #12 |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 11:50 AM Response to Reply #12 |
17. Would you demand the weak die for you? |
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Richard Steele (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 11:53 AM Response to Reply #12 |
18. You clearly know remarkably little about the subject, and thus appear foolish. |
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EstimatedProphet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 12:18 PM Response to Reply #12 |
24. Are you still here? |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 12:30 PM Response to Reply #12 |
29. "weakness is not meant to survive"??? |
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DaveJ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 11:28 AM Response to Reply #10 |
15. It's not only the weakest who need help |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 12:27 PM Response to Reply #3 |
28. "wealth redistribution via taxation, welfare, price controls, regulations, etc."???? |
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Jed Dilligan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 11:08 AM Response to Original message |
7. Life |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 11:11 AM Response to Reply #7 |
8. To answer |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 11:25 AM Response to Original message |
14. According to the mentality that rules Faux Noise |
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area51 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 11:45 AM Response to Original message |
16. Regarding healthcare, |
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DaveJ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 11:55 AM Response to Reply #16 |
19. Absolutely true -- but the rich have their reasons... |
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Flatulo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 12:17 PM Response to Reply #19 |
22. Bad idea... |
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DaveJ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 05:36 PM Response to Reply #22 |
30. That's exactly what I'm talking about |
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Flatulo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 05:55 PM Response to Reply #30 |
31. That's why RW talking points about the "welfare state" are so popular - |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 06:18 PM Response to Reply #31 |
34. No argument here. |
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DaveJ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 06:41 PM Response to Reply #31 |
35. I believe in statistics too, but there should e exceptions |
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Flatulo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 08:06 PM Response to Reply #35 |
37. You are spot-on about one thing - Robber Barons walk the earth today. |
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Flatulo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 12:12 PM Response to Original message |
20. Start with the Constitution and the Bill of Rights |
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rucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 12:14 PM Response to Original message |
21. Define "Pursuit of Happiness" |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 12:22 PM Response to Reply #21 |
26. Wasn't it originally "pursuit of property?" |
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Rosemary2205 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 12:17 PM Response to Original message |
23. I'm entitled to eat all the pizza and ice cream I want and never get fat. |
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Beelzebud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 12:19 PM Response to Original message |
25. We're entitled to go to work, pay taxes, and SLEEP. |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 06:15 PM Response to Reply #25 |
33. But according to Carly Fiorina, no American has a God-given right to a job. |
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HughBeaumont (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 08:30 PM Response to Reply #33 |
39. Yet she's somehow has a God-given right to a $21 million dollar severance pay? |
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Hubert Flottz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 12:23 PM Response to Original message |
27. I wish the government wouldn't Micromanage the people. |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 06:15 PM Response to Reply #27 |
32. Or peoples' purported peers. |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 06:42 PM Response to Original message |
36. Whatever they vote for. |
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Flatulo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 08:18 PM Response to Reply #36 |
38. That's not quite true - a Constitutional Republic has protections. |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 08:32 PM Response to Reply #38 |
40. And the Contitution may be changed by voting. Sheesh. |
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Flatulo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 09:18 PM Response to Reply #40 |
42. The Constitution can only be amended. The body can't be changed. |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 09:19 PM Response to Reply #42 |
43. Have fun splitting the hairs of the angels on your pinhead. |
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Flatulo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 09:23 PM Response to Reply #42 |
45. Sorry, but it is an important distinction. |
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mitchum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 08:50 PM Response to Original message |
41. A Congress that serves we the people rather than dirtbag lobbyists |
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Flatulo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 09:20 PM Response to Reply #41 |
44. Here's a good place to start... |
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mitchum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 11:13 PM Response to Reply #44 |
46. That is a good start, but I would like to see NO corporate lobbyists...ever |
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jbm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 11:55 PM Response to Original message |
47. we hire people to design a society.. |
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Flatulo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-24-07 08:19 PM Response to Reply #47 |
48. You can't create the means of survival without effort... |
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