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JDPriestly

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11. The gains from the growth we have enjoyed over the past approximately 30 years have gone

Reply to Dustlawyer (Reply #8)

Thu Oct 22, 2015, 12:26 PM

Oct 2015

to the top 1 or so percent. That's where the gains have gone. That's where the money to pay for the losses of the rest of us has to come from.

They have gained. We have lost.

We need to get the better economic equilibrium that we once had.

They can have a good share. They just can't have it all.

Not when our children are saddled with debt so that they can work more efficiently and make more money for the very rich.

Not when our grandchildren are in day care that is unhealthy for their bodies and minds.

Not when our parents have to spend their last days in the squalor of some nursing home in which the staff is overworked and underpaid.

Not when wages have not risen over the past more than 30 years.

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Can the 1% really pay for �free stuff� Democrats want? Laugh all you want; the numbers might work [View all] Human101948 Oct 2015 OP

This country used to balance runaway capitalism and it worked. Now, those with $$$$'s game the RKP5637 Oct 2015 #1

Well, my family intend to take our brains to the elementary school where we have our Dem caucus, PatrickforO Oct 2015 #2

K&R!!! RKP5637 Oct 2015 #3

the plan will adjust things across the board--there is a bit more than librechik Oct 2015 #4

I'm fine with that... Wounded Bear Oct 2015 #14

The $32 Trillion Hidden Offshore Needs IRS Attention. Octafish Oct 2015 #5

+1!!! There is sooo much out there they get away with. Dustlawyer Oct 2015 #8

The gains from the growth we have enjoyed over the past approximately 30 years have gone JDPriestly Oct 2015 #11

As long as we allow them to make campaign donations, have Super Paks, and use their corporate media Dustlawyer Oct 2015 #15

Yes. Well Said. JDPriestly Oct 2015 #18

I always thought that was John Dillinger... Wounded Bear Oct 2015 #16

I'd focus on the "free stuff" the corporations and ultra wealthy are getting - TBF Oct 2015 #6

Their tax cuts were supposed to go into PAYROLL..... Spitfire of ATJ Oct 2015 #7

My father used to explain the "miracle" of the loaves and fishes in the New Testament thus: JDPriestly Oct 2015 #9

Old swe story w0nderer Oct 2015 #13

I love that story. JDPriestly Oct 2015 #20

:-) w0nderer Oct 2015 #22

Depends. The global "1%" starts at about $34K Recursion Oct 2015 #10

We got those things here because we had a democracy, we taxed imports and with those taxes JDPriestly Oct 2015 #21

K & R N/T w0nderer Oct 2015 #12

Not free stuff. We worked, labored for it. The 1% and their lapdogs took it. Our money. n/t jtuck004 Oct 2015 #17

K & R for th OP and for the Octafish post below. dreamnightwind Oct 2015 #19