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Atticus

(15,124 posts) Thu Jan 27, 2022, 09:27 AM Jan 2022

At a massive protest outside the Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin several years ago, someone

carried a hand-lettered sign with a message that stuck with me:

"Tax the rich we'll have to eat them!"

The gap between poor and wealthy has widened since then.

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At a massive protest outside the Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin several years ago, someone (Original Post) Atticus Jan 2022 OP

I was there. It was a protest that Obama promised to take off his comfortable shoes... LakeArenal Jan 2022 #1

LakeArenal

(28,845 posts)

1. I was there. It was a protest that Obama promised to take off his comfortable shoes...

Reply to Atticus (Original post)

Thu Jan 27, 2022, 11:18 AM

Jan 2022

And come walk with us. He didn’t.

So disappointing.

What was worse however, DNC gave us no support to recall Walker.

Still think Obama was the greatest. But that period of time was anguish.

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