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SammyWinstonJack

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77. Voting for those whose policies would destroy one's livelihood is being a dumb a$$.

Fri Jan 6, 2012, 12:33 PM

Jan 2012

It's time these people wake up and realize that fact.

It's also time for these people to stop with the self-serving self- absorbed crap.

Choosing to be willfully ignorant because of their own agenda (gawd, guns, gays and abortion) isn't helping them or any of us.

This is a reply to the people at the factory in NH whose livelihood depends on making gear for firefighters while rah rahing for a repug candidate for president.

Pretty much that is the definition of a dumba$$.

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Factory Closing Bad News for Small Missouri Town [View all] Sherman A1 Jan 2012 OP

I Chillicothe, people will have a very hard time finding new jobs liberal N proud Jan 2012 #1

Indeed Sherman A1 Jan 2012 #2

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I doubt that calling soon-to-be-unemployed factory workers... countryjake Jan 2012 #7

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Voting for those whose policies would destroy one's livelihood is being a dumb a$$. SammyWinstonJack Jan 2012 #77

Stockholm Syndrome... KharmaTrain Jan 2012 #91

Doesn't matter MichaelMcGuire Jan 2012 #8

Precisely Sherman A1 Jan 2012 #9

Profit MichaelMcGuire Jan 2012 #11

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Let me check on that Nafta thing...... Sherman A1 Jan 2012 #68

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Outsourcing is America's way of sacrificing our livelihood to help the world's poor! <sarcasm> Zalatix Jan 2012 #93

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How do you know how they voted? pintobean Jan 2012 #12

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I can't. And you can't prove anything. pintobean Jan 2012 #18

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Meaning that Sherman A1 Jan 2012 #39

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He can't izquierdista Jan 2012 #24

I live in Missouri pintobean Jan 2012 #27

Livingstone County, Missouri General Election Results 2008: hatrack Jan 2012 #17

Where are the stats for these workers? pintobean Jan 2012 #21

Don't know - Secretary of State's office doesn't provide that level of detail hatrack Jan 2012 #22

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What? pintobean Jan 2012 #29

No need to ask MichaelMcGuire Jan 2012 #36

You ought to be ashamed MichaelMcGuire Jan 2012 #19

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Na its the lack of solidarity MichaelMcGuire Jan 2012 #48

It's not even an internally consistent hatred. nt Romulox Jan 2012 #34

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Neither I, you, nor anybody else here even knows who the "dumb-asses" are supposed to be, Romulox Jan 2012 #45

hope no one notices MichaelMcGuire Jan 2012 #51

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What? LOL MichaelMcGuire Jan 2012 #74

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I agree with you. Having lived in red areas for many, many years, and hearing them complain TwilightGardener Jan 2012 #35

Can you please provide a list of 'good' factories and 'bad'? Dreamer Tatum Jan 2012 #37

Precisely Sherman A1 Jan 2012 #40

As I've said, I feel bad for Democratic voters in red areas, especially those who lose their jobs TwilightGardener Jan 2012 #42

You don't even know that anyone there feels that way. Dreamer Tatum Jan 2012 #43

Reading comprehension not your bag, eh? I assume there's Democrats, liberals, the apolitical, and TwilightGardener Jan 2012 #49

Got any stereotypes for them? Dreamer Tatum Jan 2012 #50

?? When a given area predominantly votes for Republicans, it's safe to assume they TwilightGardener Jan 2012 #52

Just clarifying your conditional humanity. nt Dreamer Tatum Jan 2012 #53

OK, pal. TwilightGardener Jan 2012 #54

+1 SammyWinstonJack Jan 2012 #78

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Your comments, below, tend to take some of the bite out of your critique of globalism. Romulox Jan 2012 #33

Aren't you an imported car enthusiast? nt Romulox Jan 2012 #20

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You seem a bad spokesperson for the "interests" of US factory workers. That's all. nt Romulox Jan 2012 #32

Where is the product in your avatar made? Dreamer Tatum Jan 2012 #38

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Bzzt. Check the cash on AAPL's balance sheet, the price of their products, and report back. Dreamer Tatum Jan 2012 #46

I was determined to stay out of this one but bighart Jan 2012 #55

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So if regualtion and tax rates favored US produciton they would produce here bighart Jan 2012 #61

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I would really like to read some of the data that leads you to conclude that bighart Jan 2012 #71

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I don't dislike apple, have several of the products they offer bighart Jan 2012 #83

3 cars MichaelMcGuire Jan 2012 #73

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I'd expect someone that owns 3 cars and ones a porsche MichaelMcGuire Jan 2012 #88

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Which to value more: union labor (if foreign) or American labor (if non-union). pampango Jan 2012 #90

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That's the way to win friends & influence people WolverineDG Jan 2012 #23

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What would you propose as a solution? bighart Jan 2012 #56

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Citizens vote on budgets? bighart Jan 2012 #72

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Considering that I am from the South WolverineDG Jan 2012 #57

would voting for equally-neoliberal, pro-outsourcing Dems have helped their MisterP Jan 2012 #60

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Spot on. Both major parties are principally neo-liberal. Laelth Jan 2012 #94

this is what is meant by a "right to work" state onethatcares Jan 2012 #4

So you think it's OK for a factory to close, MadHound Jan 2012 #5

no, I don't think it's ok for a factory to close, especially onethatcares Jan 2012 #62

Just a note here Sherman A1 Jan 2012 #6

IIRC MO is not a Right to Work State lacrew Jan 2012 #13

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hmmmm AmandaRuth Jan 2012 #70

Meanwhile, Obama refuses to renegotiate NAFTA brentspeak Jan 2012 #76

Yea, my job was moved out of the country about ten years before NAFTA, thanks NNN0LHI Jan 2012 #82

The Hanes work is being sourced down to Mexico b/c of NAFTA brentspeak Jan 2012 #84

Given our experience with China, what makes you think that Hanes would not move to pampango Jan 2012 #85

How would Mexican-made Hanes products avoid a USA tariff if NAFTA didn't exist? brentspeak Jan 2012 #86

They wouldn't avoid a US tariff, but then neither do Chinese products. n/t pampango Jan 2012 #87