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ck4829 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-22-11 10:59 AM
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How exactly does one come to this conclusion for our economic problems?
No, it's not the tax cuts that never created any jobs.

No, it's not the Wall Street types jamming the economy into the toilet.

No, it's not disastrous experiments with privatization and deregulation.

No, it's not the tax loopholes and the tax shelters that has taken billions of dollars off of the books.

No, it's not the corporate cash hoard of about 2 trillion dollars.

It's that teachers and the public employees are making too much money (50k a year, oh nooooo!!!11!1) that are causing the problems in our economy!

Right...

How does one come to this conclusion? Lobotomy? Gas cloud? Mind control? What?
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emulatorloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-22-11 11:01 AM
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1. Koch Brother $$$$$$$ is very persuasive n/t
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mrcheerful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-22-11 11:35 AM
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2. A belief that the rich worked hard for their money, a belief that the rich
create job's and taxing the rich creates less jobs, a belief that by giving the rich tax breaks there will be a golden shower that trickles down on those who are not as worthy as the rich. These were the lies Reagan told them in 1979 and has been repeatedly retold every election cycle since. Remember beliefs require an honest look at where the self formed these beliefs and requires proof to show weather that belief is fact based or just something they made up in their minds.

Sadly our fellow countrymen who believe this nonsense refuse facts, look how fast they replaced D's in favor of the very same people that brought the country to ruin in the belief they had learned the error of their ways. Unlike the political junkies these people get all of their information from media talking heads who care very little for anything except ratings and their pay checks. There used to be a belief teachers and other public servants were not paid enough, that all started to change with the Reagan revolution, when greed and jealously took over.

The nit wits saw their taxes go up and wages stagnate so instead of looking for reasons to why that was happening, they took the easy way out and listened to their enemies that it was people who were on welfare, people who abused the law suite laws, people collecting SS, medicare and now public workers, the very programs that the nit wits have used often themselves since 1979, like Joe the plumber who was using the programs himself and who wasn't even earning enough to keep up on his property taxes, oh but to the Joe types the reason their property taxes are high is because of teachers and schools, never mind facts such as every time the rich get tax cuts their share of taxes goes up, nope the problem is teachers make to much money for easy labor because they have collective bargaining rights.
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patrice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-22-11 11:52 AM
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4. CHURCHES are working for Mammon. The other day I received the 3rd voluntarity comment in recent
memory that the churches in our town have tooooooooo much power over our business sector: These were UNSOLICITED comments from a-political members of the business community.

If it's happening here, it's happening elsewhere, because we are a large suburb in a major metro area.
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Larry Ogg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-22-11 12:28 PM
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6. You can't have a good system of mind control without the blessings of religion.
Have you watched the http://www.watchzeitgeist.com/">zeitgeist movies


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patrice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-22-11 01:44 PM
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8. Thanks for the link. I will watch & share. nt
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patrice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-22-11 11:48 AM
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3. People are afraid for their own jobs if they admit what's going on.
Believe me! (I in fact know.) They should be.
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patrice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-22-11 12:31 PM
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7. And people generally do not understand how this fact affects the QUALITY of all services &
products, especially in a highly sensitive area, politically & economically, called "Health" "Care".

And WORKERS are the ones who can speak most directly to the issue of Quality, because THEY have the MOST DIRECT power over it.



This fact is why the TRANSNATIONAL corporate hegemony WILL let blood over Labor issues. Because of what happened in the Derivative Crash of 2008, ALL transnational conglomerate corporate structures are fighting for their lives and one of their biggest bonus points is cost cutting, a matter that affects QUALITY, and which is controlled by delivering a body count consisting of ANY kind of organizers, especially as they might increase costs relative to improved quality especially in health care.
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Larry Ogg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-22-11 11:59 AM
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5. Psychopaths rule the world by controlling the minds of their authoritarian follows. n/t
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