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tex-wyo-dem

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24. You nailed it, Curmudgeness!

Sat Mar 2, 2013, 01:38 AM

Mar 2013

They do not know the ramifications of what they wish for. Thousands, hundreds-of-thousands, even millions in the street. No home, no food, no healthcare, no nothing.

This is why the New Deal was created...to advert human suffering like this. Not only is allowing such suffering immoral, but weakens all aspects of our society.

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omigod! "they" actually WENT there! - Every so often they slip up and tell the truth... [View all] kpete Mar 2013 OP

K&R Cleita Mar 2013 #1

The Shock Doctrine applied domestically arcane1 Mar 2013 #2

disproportionate? daybranch Mar 2013 #3

Exactly. I was referring to their numbers arcane1 Mar 2013 #5

Exactly. And they played all the bigotry the populace would fall for and it worked. freshwest Mar 2013 #6

Overwhelms you, eh? Drunken Irishman Mar 2013 #12

Irish, it's a cold day in hell that might bring me saidsimplesimon Mar 2013 #37

+1 CrispyQ Mar 2013 #35

Bipartisanship. Yay! blkmusclmachine Mar 2013 #44

Brownback, too. nt tblue37 Mar 2013 #54

Also, hence the invention of "War on Terror" & "War on Drugs" memes. 99th_Monkey Mar 2013 #48

These people who are against all the programs Curmudgeoness Mar 2013 #4

Well, the tea party was financed by the Koch Brothers Samantha Mar 2013 #8

The Koch brothers will never have to face these problems, Curmudgeoness Mar 2013 #10

Greedy sociopath corporatate CEO's have been planning this since Reagan and this all started with... L0oniX Mar 2013 #23

You nailed it, Curmudgeness! tex-wyo-dem Mar 2013 #24

Well put Dryvinwhileblind Mar 2013 #33

Three or four poor people need to start hang out in the Congress neighborhoods, oldbanjo Mar 2013 #52

Reality show Iliyah Mar 2013 #7

Why did a Democratic President ever sign this to begin with? I remember when those sabrina 1 Mar 2013 #9

If they do go along with this, they are not fit to be in office. Autumn Mar 2013 #11

I'm with you Sabrina, sick of being told that iemitsu Mar 2013 #13

And if we express our discontent dreamnightwind Mar 2013 #19

The coordinated national effort to break heads really got up to speed by harassing, indepat Mar 2013 #25

If I knew how t use impertinence in a sentence dreamnightwind Mar 2013 #26

HA! BrotherIvan Mar 2013 #27

^^^^^^^^^Nailed It^^^^^^^^^ Dryvinwhileblind Mar 2013 #34

Yeah, there's the head breaking thing. iemitsu Mar 2013 #28

Like your style and panache indepat Mar 2013 #38

Thank you, about the style anyway. Panache is not a term I would choose to describe myself. iemitsu Mar 2013 #56

+100 840high Mar 2013 #14

You've probably seen me shouting "austerity" on DU for at least the least two years. Fire Walk With Me Mar 2013 #15

Some of us saw the writing on the wall Tansy_Gold Mar 2013 #18

DU is a Dem based platform. What is right does not always apply here. L0oniX Mar 2013 #22

You forgot to put "Democratic" in quotation marks - the man is NO Democrat. kath Mar 2013 #32

BINGO!!!! haikugal Mar 2013 #55

^^THIS^^ MessiahRp Mar 2013 #47

Hit the nail on the head! "They're Republicans pretending to be Democrats." DearHeart Mar 2013 #57

So, did the capital gains tax just go up? Coyotl Mar 2013 #16

There goes the sterling approval rating Congress enjoys. Brigid Mar 2013 #17

Traitorous sabatours... 2naSalit Mar 2013 #20

No more democracy. When a prison business puts its name on a football stadium, SleeplessinSoCal Mar 2013 #21

Sleepless we are in a "free" fall. Prison labor saidsimplesimon Mar 2013 #39

The key is that this is a local/regional broadcast... JHB Mar 2013 #29

See today's Huff Post GEOpix Mar 2013 #30

Great video. The only correction I would make is that the "anchor" did not say this senseandsensibility Mar 2013 #31

I was going to post that our government is dysfunctional, but if functions just fine for the 1%. CrispyQ Mar 2013 #36

Yeah, but it is local San Francisco news. mucifer Mar 2013 #40

KRON 4 has an anchor that did that? Those asswipes? truedelphi Mar 2013 #41

OMG! Rider3 Mar 2013 #42

the way I see it the thugs want to cut social programs but they ThomThom Mar 2013 #43

Unfortunately not just "by the republicans" NorthCarolina Mar 2013 #45

My fear humbled_opinion Mar 2013 #46

The mask slips.. blkmusclmachine Mar 2013 #49

Heads will roll for that upi402 Mar 2013 #50

And yet, chervilant Mar 2013 #51

I'M GONNA GO OUT ON A LIMB... drynberg Mar 2013 #53

A big 'duh' from anyone who has been paying attention.. RedCappedBandit Mar 2013 #58