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namaste2

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3. We need to capture, then keep the national conversation.

Reply to Tom Rinaldo (Original post)

Mon Mar 11, 2013, 12:28 PM

Mar 2013

All the time we spend responding to "austerity" and leaving debt to our kids and grandkids needs to be refocused on the reality that when we have a strong middle class we have a strong economy. Anything that helps that helps our nation and we can pay our bills if we have employment and lose the tax loopholes for oil companies and such that make more profit in a quarter than the world has ever seen. They need a tax break so we can drop programs that feed the hungry and educuate our kids? REFOCUS the conversation! The smallest brains seem to have the biggest microphones!

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This Middle Class Amnesia Won�t Last Much Longer [View all] Tom Rinaldo Mar 2013 OP

K&R Teamster Jeff Mar 2013 #1

K&R nt abelenkpe Mar 2013 #2

We need to capture, then keep the national conversation. namaste2 Mar 2013 #3

This was in a way inspired by a conversation I once had with my one really wealthy friend Tom Rinaldo Mar 2013 #6

Here is how they are dismantling what is left of the middle class jobs in Wisconsin: midnight Mar 2013 #4

This is the real meaning of the attack on "entitlements" starroute Mar 2013 #5

"Yes, we are entitled, just by being human." Yes. To a fair return on our labor at least. Tom Rinaldo Mar 2013 #7

Maybe if we used the work "endowments" instead bigbrother05 Mar 2013 #13

K&R and thankyou olddots Mar 2013 #8

well, we better hurry up corkhead Mar 2013 #9

Believe this line or not: 99Forever Mar 2013 #10

1+ Lifelong Protester Mar 2013 #16

Nice Post, Tom... KoKo Mar 2013 #11

No we aren't there yet, but I believe the tide is inevitably turning Tom Rinaldo Mar 2013 #20

The Greek crisis was caused by tax avoidance by the rich & corps bigbrother05 Mar 2013 #12

And shortly before the Ship finally sinks... Tom Rinaldo Mar 2013 #23

For your listening pleasure kelliekat44 Mar 2013 #14

a big K & R Lifelong Protester Mar 2013 #15

The middle class in America as such never really existed in the first place Spider Jerusalem Mar 2013 #17

I essentially agree Tom Rinaldo Mar 2013 #21

There's no logical reason for this amnesia, but for the effect of social issues on voter's minds. Populist_Prole Mar 2013 #18

They would be by now. Tom Rinaldo Mar 2013 #22

Quite right. Sad to see reality such a lagging indicator Populist_Prole Mar 2013 #25

K&R. But is it only Wall Street CEOs and not politicians who have been involved with this? AnotherMcIntosh Mar 2013 #19

Indeed...the CREW WHO BROKE THE FINANCIAL SYSTEM... KoKo Mar 2013 #26

k&r... spanone Mar 2013 #24