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closeupready

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7. Eventually though, the powers that be do go a bridge too far,

Thu Mar 21, 2013, 06:54 PM

Mar 2013

and if you study history, you see example after example of societies where peons pushed back. We may be getting to that point, where OWS was the beginning rumblings of large-scale social change back towards the strong tradition of liberalism in the US.

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Robert Reich: Selling the Store: Why Dems Shouldn’t Put Social Security and Medicare on the Table [View all] marmar Mar 2013 OP

He is absolutely correct. 99Forever Mar 2013 #1

I'm afraid you're right. 840high Mar 2013 #11

I have come to realise that it is not "Democrats" putting the safety net on the table djean111 Mar 2013 #2

The tea party stole the republican party. Jakes Progress Mar 2013 #3

As Bill Maher says, 'Democrats moved to the right, and Republicans moved into the asylum.' marmar Mar 2013 #4

The question has become Jakes Progress Mar 2013 #5

The answer is NOT truth2power Mar 2013 #25

The very fact that SS/Medicare HAS been "Put-On-the-Table" has forever damaged it. bvar22 Mar 2013 #6

Eventually though, the powers that be do go a bridge too far, closeupready Mar 2013 #7

Which is why it's been stomped on so savagely. winter is coming Mar 2013 #8

My grandparents' generation contributed to Social Security only the last two decades of their workin maddiemom Mar 2013 #21

They want to cull the herd. They want most of us dead. LiberalLoner Mar 2013 #9

+1 area51 Mar 2013 #17

This is what you get with weak democratic party leadership 4dsc Mar 2013 #10

We have a few (very few) real leaders... 99Forever Mar 2013 #12

Not weak, just complicit with GOP goals for Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid. nt NorthCarolina Mar 2013 #18

Obama isn't leading with a compromise. Jackpine Radical Mar 2013 #13

^ Wilms Mar 2013 #14

No matter how you analyze the gamesmanship Babel_17 Mar 2013 #15

+1 HiPointDem Mar 2013 #40

Hey Hillary, want my vote in 2016? DonCoquixote Mar 2013 #16

I am fedup with some DUers claiming it is a chess game Skittles Mar 2013 #19

Interesting. ProSense Mar 2013 #20

We need to counter their propaganda more effectively. raging moderate Mar 2013 #22

Where we are now. hay rick Mar 2013 #23

K&R MotherPetrie Mar 2013 #24

I wish The Progressive Caucus would start organizing as a third party then xtraxritical Mar 2013 #26

It's not a 'compromise', it is policy. Using Republicans alone to get their hands on the SS fund sabrina 1 Mar 2013 #27

Your "friends" are The Progressive Caucus. xtraxritical Mar 2013 #32

by the time i`m done with all my medical problems..... madrchsod Mar 2013 #28

.... 840high Mar 2013 #30

Sad. The Pukes flatly refuse to put revenues on the table, in any shape form or fashion. Bake Mar 2013 #29

effin' xtraxritical Mar 2013 #33

. blkmusclmachine Mar 2013 #31

It appears ProSense Mar 2013 #34

I would suggest a red flag campaign in Florida... kentuck Mar 2013 #35

This man makes so much sense. Zax2me Mar 2013 #36

Ironically, after selling us out they will blame the left for not voting for them. Tierra_y_Libertad Mar 2013 #37

Why yes, yes they will. At great and formulaic length. djean111 Mar 2013 #38

that's what so infuriating. lies on top of lies, and everyone pretends they're gospel. on both HiPointDem Mar 2013 #41

if people would only listen rks306 Mar 2013 #39