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dkf

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6. He probably realizes pension funds and therefore government employees are dependent on

Reply to bigtree (Original post)

Sun May 20, 2012, 02:22 PM

May 2012

Capitalism for their retirement.

That makes the states and municipalities also dependent as if there is a shortage of pension funds, these obligations will either need to be cut or funded through taxes, thus crowding out all other spending.

Private capital gets most of its funding from institutions, not individuals.

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Enough of the self-righteous equalizing from Cory Booker [View all] bigtree May 2012 OP

Booker = just another neolib posing as a liberal. Booker tried to privatize his city's water. HiPointDem May 2012 #1

I really don't know that much about him bigtree May 2012 #2

as i said, he's been privatizing newark. HiPointDem May 2012 #3

he's on quite a few folks' short-list as successors to Obama's second term bigtree May 2012 #4

Too bad for the american people, then. He is a wolf in sheep's clothing. HiPointDem May 2012 #5

Scarborough butterfly77 May 2012 #15

which is why it's better to hang as a real dem than a fake one. when neolib policy fails, libs will HiPointDem May 2012 #19

+10 arendt May 2012 #9

I knew he was too good to be true marlakay May 2012 #13

He probably realizes pension funds and therefore government employees are dependent on dkf May 2012 #6

but they're not dependent on the deliberate bankrupting, job-killing, and profit-taking bigtree May 2012 #7

+1! n/t Spazito May 2012 #11

That's not what you need to be worried about... dkf May 2012 #14

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Finally a non-republican gets on a Sunday talk show chowder66 May 2012 #10

He is a republiCON butterfly77 May 2012 #16

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Do you have a link butterfly77 May 2012 #17

Corporate tool. Media whore. vanlassie May 2012 #18

Well he did a commerical with Gov. Christie Iliyah May 2012 #20

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