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In reply to the discussion: Why They Get Away With Cutting Welfare [View all]Prophet 451
(9,796 posts)47. They don't care about crashing the US economy
They'll sell to the much bigger Asian markets and perhaps to the North European nations. The US (and the UK, if the Tories get their way) are their preferred labour population. Low wages (or a meal or a bed for the night), low services (to the plebs; the rich can afford their own services), low or no regulations and a populace that has been trained to see the "job creators" as semi-mythical demigods.
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Rather than "the winners and the losers"...we should say "the lucky and the unlucky".
Ken Burch
Dec 2014
#12
We have idiots who rail about foreign aid saying we should care for our own people first....
Spitfire of ATJ
Dec 2014
#18
Krugman: Racism: "our unique suspicion of and hostility to social insurance and anti-poverty
pampango
Dec 2014
#20
It is my belief that those at the bottom and all the way up to the middle middle class really
LiberalArkie
Dec 2014
#31
The monkey wrench in your "rinse and repeat" history lesson is climate change
riderinthestorm
Dec 2014
#35
K&R! We have many people living, working, investing and dying for conservative (corporate) ends.
raouldukelives
Dec 2014
#43