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Fresh_Start

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11. when you are President

Reply to ProfessionalLeftist (Original post)

Mon May 21, 2012, 09:53 PM

May 2012

instead of the head of a business, then your job is to improve the country for the long run; not to let a few people enrich themselves today while destroying the future for generations.

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When you're president . . . [View all] ProfessionalLeftist May 2012 OP

Exactly right. n/t CaliforniaPeggy May 2012 #1

Amen to that! Profit is not in the CONSTITUTION!! tblue May 2012 #2

+1 freshwest May 2012 #3

The Costitution refers to the "general welfare" btw xtraxritical May 2012 #5

K&R for Mr. President -- a thousand thousand times. JDPriestly May 2012 #4

Agreed. I think he's handling Booker's ignorant little poison arrow ProfessionalLeftist May 2012 #10

The point is that Mitt Romney wants to run the government like a private equity firm... kentuck May 2012 #6

Romney = Mr. Privatization!!! Rosa Luxemburg May 2012 #8

When was he the head of a private company? Zax2me May 2012 #7

He's talking about his opponent jmowreader May 2012 #12

What a great thing it is to have a president who can communicate coherently NNN0LHI May 2012 #9

when you are President Fresh_Start May 2012 #11

"built to last" ProfessionalLeftist May 2012 #13