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jtuck004

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14. Fixing it is different from pandering to a bunch of stupid actions that won't

Reply to azureblue (Reply #6)

Mon Jun 30, 2014, 11:01 PM

Jun 2014

fix jack shit. Unless one's standards are incredibly low.

Because that doesn't do a fucking thing to fix the damage of the last 40 years, and as soon as all that is done, regardless of how good it is, not a fucking thing is going to change, regardless of how many self-important weak-brained smart-mouth jackasses think so.

We will still need an investment of over $50 trillion in pure factory upgrades, an upgrade to the now clearly insufficient education that tens of millions of adults have, and NONE of that does anything to bring back the lives or health of the 7 million FAMILIES who were foreclosed on, or the 9 million loans that are underwater, and it doesn't do a fucking thing to bring back the over 20 million decent jobs we are now short.

So do you have solutions or just useless snark?

Never mind - I'll just put you on ignore, doesn't look like you have much else to offer.

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Robert Reich on today's SC decision... [View all] babylonsister Jun 2014 OP

I think those five misogynistic bastards may have just cooked themselves Skittles Jun 2014 #1

yep - and I hope this one backfires bigtime rurallib Jun 2014 #7

*fingers crossed* Soylent Brice Jun 2014 #11

We need to do away with employer based abelenkpe Jun 2014 #2

Indeed. Medicare for All. LoisB Jun 2014 #12

All we have to do is retake the house, keep the senate, pass an amendment Warren Stupidity Jun 2014 #3

And we will still have 50 million people in poverty. n/t jtuck004 Jun 2014 #4

so when do propose we start fixing the mess the GOP made of this country azureblue Jun 2014 #6

Fixing it is different from pandering to a bunch of stupid actions that won't jtuck004 Jun 2014 #14

Turning Back The Neoliberal Crap Could Dirty Socialist Jun 2014 #16

Certainly. But that means HUGE investment, something I would bet this jtuck004 Jul 2014 #17

Seems that's what Warren is saying. Reverse what the psychos have done. rickyhall Jun 2014 #9

None of that reverses anything. All the scores of trillions of dollars lost in the past 4 decades jtuck004 Jun 2014 #15

I've read you postings in this sub-thread ... 1StrongBlackMan Jul 2014 #22

Employer based / insurance based is what is wrong. Single payer is the only way to go. Tell the YOHABLO Jun 2014 #5

Too bad the Dems went all out to preserve the employer-based system Distant Quasar Jul 2014 #23

why are employers the enemy? quadrature Jun 2014 #8

Yes, a lot of progress has been happening thanks to the christofascists getting more extreme. BlancheSplanchnik Jun 2014 #10

Will corporations get bored with the First and start looking at the Second? Thor_MN Jun 2014 #13

That just blows me away: freshwest Jul 2014 #18

P. S. My blood pressure just went down. Thanks, babylonsister! freshwest Jul 2014 #19

Idiots! Instead of single payer in the first fucking place! lonestarnot Jul 2014 #20

A journey of a thousand miles begins. IrishAyes Jul 2014 #21

Off the rails I go!! Corporations ARE people. 7962 Jul 2014 #24