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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo, would Tom Harkin D-Iowa be a troll if he posted this in GD?
"No deal is better than a bad deal, and this looks like a very bad deal the way this is shaping up," Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, said.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/31/politics/fiscal-cliff/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
When you think that 93% of the economic gains have gone to the 1% since the Great Recession, and what we're being told to accept in these negotiations, holding the unemployed as hostages, I too feel the middle and lower class is not getting a fair shake.
I'm not just blaming Obama, I'm blaming the entire Democratic party.
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So, would Tom Harkin D-Iowa be a troll if he posted this in GD? (Original Post)
NeoConsSuck
Dec 2012
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JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)1. What deal?
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)2. No. He'd be a "politician"
....and a very good one. It's good to hear him getting a voice again.
NYC Liberal
(20,450 posts)3. But "no deal" is still really, really shitty.
Really.