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tmyers09
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Sun May-09-10 12:05 AM Original message |
Can somebody give me one reason why we cannot have a New "New Deal"... |
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jdlh8894
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Sun May-09-10 12:13 AM Response to Original message |
1. Duh? No money in the coffers?n/t |
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Phlem
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Sun May-09-10 12:16 AM Response to Reply #1 |
3. plenty for |
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AnArmyVeteran
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Sun May-09-10 12:23 AM Response to Reply #3 |
5. You forgot the trillion dollar giveaway to the rich in huge tax cuts. |
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Greyhound
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Sun May-09-10 04:45 AM Response to Reply #1 |
18. One non-reason down... n/t |
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gleaner
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Sun May-09-10 06:03 AM Response to Reply #1 |
23. Yeah. One reason. Obama. n/t |
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bobbolink
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Sun May-09-10 03:56 PM Response to Reply #1 |
34. Duh, you think FDR had access to unlimited bucks? |
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Better Believe It
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Sun May-09-10 04:09 PM Response to Reply #34 |
37. Yes he did! How do you think FDR financed World War II expenditures? Duh! |
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bobbolink
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Sun May-09-10 04:12 PM Response to Reply #37 |
39. Duh, yourself. That is the point. Obama can do it just as well as FDR. |
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LiberalEsto
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Sun May-09-10 05:31 PM Response to Reply #1 |
49. Maybe the Pentagon could spare a few trillion |
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Phlem
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Sun May-09-10 12:14 AM Response to Original message |
2. That could possibly |
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Foo Fighter
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Sun May-09-10 12:33 AM Response to Reply #2 |
7. Can't have that now, can we? n/t |
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Cleita
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Sun May-09-10 12:22 AM Response to Original message |
4. As long as the crooks and liars are controlling things, it will |
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TheWatcher
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Sun May-09-10 01:08 AM Response to Reply #4 |
12. You beat me to it. |
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Sebastian Doyle
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Sun May-09-10 12:29 AM Response to Original message |
6. Because that road has been blocked |
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Mojambo
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Sun May-09-10 12:39 AM Response to Original message |
8. Because the "economic royalists", who Roosevelt was desperately warning us about, won. n/t |
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laughingliberal
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Sun May-09-10 12:42 AM Response to Reply #8 |
9. +1 nt |
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progressoid
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Sun May-09-10 12:56 AM Response to Original message |
10. Oh we're getting a new deal alright. |
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Hippo_Tron
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Sun May-09-10 01:02 AM Response to Original message |
11. Because conditions are not nearly as bad as they were in the 1930's |
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troubledamerican
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Sun May-09-10 01:16 AM Response to Reply #11 |
13. A victim of the New Deal's success -- Americans are comfortable |
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Hippo_Tron
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Sun May-09-10 01:30 AM Response to Reply #13 |
15. I think that's true |
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troubledamerican
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Sun May-09-10 01:22 AM Response to Original message |
14. Because FDR was a communist |
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Scuba
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Sun May-09-10 03:27 AM Response to Original message |
16. The rich don't want to help the poor. They like cheap labor. |
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Stevepol
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Sun May-09-10 04:41 AM Response to Original message |
17. Nope. But I can give 100 reasons we SHOULD! |
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Dr Morbius
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Sun May-09-10 05:19 AM Response to Original message |
19. Yeah. And I'm sorry, but it's a very good reason. |
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whattheidonot
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Sun May-09-10 09:26 AM Response to Reply #19 |
32. correct. |
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B Calm
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Sun May-09-10 05:30 AM Response to Original message |
20. We have no manufacturing base anymore, We have an aging population |
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ima_sinnic
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Sun May-09-10 05:38 AM Response to Original message |
21. the wealthy elites don't want it, and that is that. period. (n/t) |
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salguine
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Sun May-09-10 05:54 AM Response to Original message |
22. It doesn't make the people who actually own this country richer, that's why. |
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Scuba
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Sun May-09-10 06:15 AM Response to Reply #22 |
24. Nailed it. |
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MrMickeysMom
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Sun May-09-10 04:17 PM Response to Reply #22 |
42. If you had a renter who was unable to pay rent... |
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miscsoc
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Sun May-09-10 06:18 AM Response to Original message |
25. We have a much more developed propaganda machine on the part of the ruling classes. |
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BootinUp
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Sun May-09-10 06:37 AM Response to Original message |
26. Because it comes with a Great Depression? nt |
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Vinca
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Sun May-09-10 07:37 AM Response to Original message |
27. Because the Chinese need the work. |
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ck4829
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Sun May-09-10 08:45 AM Response to Original message |
28. K&R |
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yowzayowzayowza
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Sun May-09-10 09:23 AM Response to Original message |
29. Insufficient US Senators supporting such an endeavor. n/t |
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Better Believe It
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Sun May-09-10 04:12 PM Response to Reply #29 |
40. And a reluctant President who doesn't want to lean on them .... |
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MadBadger
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Sun May-09-10 09:25 AM Response to Original message |
30. Blue Dog Democrats |
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NorthCarolina
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Sun May-09-10 04:22 PM Response to Reply #30 |
43. You can also add DLC/New Dems to that. n/t |
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hack89
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Sun May-09-10 09:25 AM Response to Original message |
31. How about another war like WWII that destroys all the competing economies? |
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Odin2005
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Sun May-09-10 03:55 PM Response to Original message |
33. Because the Corporatists are in complete control of the government. |
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bobbolink
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Sun May-09-10 03:59 PM Response to Original message |
35. Get back to me when you can care about those who are too old,, too sick, or too injured to work. |
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tmyers09
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Sun May-09-10 04:07 PM Response to Reply #35 |
36. What this country has done to its safety net, and how it takes care of its own, is sickening. |
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bobbolink
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Sun May-09-10 04:10 PM Response to Reply #36 |
38. When "progressives" begin to care, I will probably faint from shock. |
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MrMickeysMom
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Sun May-09-10 04:15 PM Response to Original message |
41. There is NO reason, tmyers09 |
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William Z. Foster
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Sun May-09-10 04:27 PM Response to Original message |
44. two reasons |
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Yo_Mama
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Sun May-09-10 04:29 PM Response to Original message |
45. We can't afford it |
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Brickbat
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Sun May-09-10 04:34 PM Response to Original message |
46. Lack of leadership and fear of being labeled. The same things that have held Democrats back for |
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Taitertots
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Sun May-09-10 05:06 PM Response to Original message |
47. Stupid people think "socialism" is bad |
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LiberalEsto
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Sun May-09-10 05:29 PM Response to Original message |
48. Because the corporations are in charge |
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Toucano
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Sun May-09-10 05:33 PM Response to Original message |
50. First we need a new Square Deal. |
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donheld
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Sun May-09-10 10:19 PM Response to Original message |
51. Because someone put out a Contract on America |
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