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In reply to the discussion: The Trillion Dollare Money Pump for the 1% [View all]SunSeeker
(51,554 posts)40. There's folks who like to push the "both parties are same" meme to depress the Dem vote.
You see it so often in the MSM that it even gets picked up by some on the left. Some know that kind of bullshit will get hidden here, so they try to say it different ways.
Dems and the GOP do not share "similar goals." The GOP wants to do away with taxes on corporations and kill government (shrink it so they can "drown it in a bathtub" . Dems want a government that provides a safety net and represents the will of the majority (a democracy). These goals are not even close, let alone similar. If you think otherwise, you are on the wrong site.
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It is being put in practice. If everyone VOTED, it would be implemented nationwide.
SunSeeker
Oct 2013
#18
Bullshit. The parties are not the same. The graph went up sharply under Clinton. nt
SunSeeker
Oct 2013
#7
There's folks who like to push the "both parties are same" meme to depress the Dem vote.
SunSeeker
Oct 2013
#40
Excellent observation. Low tax rates cause the rich to pull money out, not reinvest.
SunSeeker
Oct 2013
#20
Yes - It's taking this long to recover from Bush crashing the economy (DUH).
groundloop
Oct 2013
#14
The 1% are the one problem from which our others spring, always have been. n/t
Egalitarian Thug
Oct 2013
#21
the early 70s saw 1) the oil slump turn into stagflation; on top of that 2) the ecologists and women
MisterP
Oct 2013
#34