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In defending the US Post Office against the Right, the Left is missing one of its most potent supporters - Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations". In book 5, Chapter II, Part 1 he establishes a continuum from the English East India Company, a Crown Corporation which he finds to be the cause of most of the problems of the Brittish Empire in his day, to at the other extreem the operation of a post office. "The post-office is propertly a mercantile project....It is, perhaps, the only mercantile project which has been successfully managed by, I believe, every sort of government."
When the general public starts equating the labels Progressive and Democratic Socialist with promoting of the general welfare of all citizens, and conversely equating the labels Conservative and Fascist with enriching only an elite handful at everyone elses expense...then we'll see the death of not only the Republican party, but also the end of all non progressive Democrats.
And very much the same can be said of the Corporatist Democratic Party as The "Left Wing" of the Plutocrats' Oligarchy. My 87 yo mother, who needs no qualifiers for her age, is a staunch FDR Democrat and can clearly remember listening to his "Fireside Chats" while growing up. She sees most of the men and women of the Democratic establishment as the greedy little men and women that they are. Politicians who have sold their souls to the power of money. They have sacrificed their obligation to We The People upon the Altars Of Greed while chanting deceptive verses of Progressivism. Accordingly, the vast majority of We The People are no longer represented by either of the dominant political parties. And in the long run that is a good thing.
Hard to see anyone having sufficient testicular fortitude to oppose these trends
ANYWHERE
This phenomena is not only in USA but also present in UK and Europe
Leads to the belief that there is a guiding hand group with self interest that is against greater good
I thought the Starbucks insignia was just a mermaid. Remember, it originally had exposed breasts.
DFMM, I FEEL YOUR HURT and PAIN! I'm too upset that Cheney, Big Oil and the Industrial Warmongering complex are not covering all our Troops ailments; yet they GET ALL THE REWARDS from your SACRIFICE'S! SCREW THEM!
For I believe after you PLACED your LIFE ON THE LINE for our American Government; better known as BIG OIL and CORPORATE AMERICA, coming home with the mental and physical ailments most of our TROOPS are suffering, YOU SHOULD BE EXCLUDED from ANY TAXES, and a HOME SHOULD BE GIVEN to ALL our VETERANS, SUFFERING, for the REST OF THEIR LIVES!
Yet, these REPUBLICAN PUNK COWARD BASTARDS are CALLING OBAMA a COWARD because he refuses to place more of our TROOPS on the ground in Syria and Iraq; yet 90% of them have NEVER SERVED IN THE MILITARY!
Please CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES, and REQUEST FROM THEM. until they take a LEAVE OF ABSENCE, for their CUSHION SEAT in the Congress and Senate, to SACRIFICE their LIVES, as you've SACRIFICED YOURS, they need to SHUT UP OR PUT UP!
With our Veterans waiting MONTHS, TRYING TO GET THEIR HEALTHCARE and BENEFITS, THESE BASTARDS in the HOUSE and SENATE BETTER KISS YOUR LAST AZZ!
Please DEMAND that they SUIT UP, OR SHUT THE F UP and PROVIDE OUR TROOPS WITH WHAT THEY HAVE EARNED! That $174,000.yr, along with their BENEFITS and PERKS SHOULD BE GOING TO OUR DISABLED TROOPS!
Those Republican PUNKS and COWARDS in our House and Senate, better KISS MY LAST AZZ and YOURS TOO!
I don't know when these GREEDY CEO'S are going to get it because no matter how many employees they lay off, as long as their EMPLOYEE'S ARE NOT MAKING THE INCOME TO SHOP, their businesses will GO OUT OF BUSINESS!
These A-holes are so STUCK ON GREEDY STUPID, that they are too STUPID TO REALIZE its their EMPLOYEES and us SHOPPER'S that KEEP THEM IN BUSINESS!
Yet for some UNgodly stupid greedy reason, these greedy SOBS believe they will SURVIVE WITHOUT the AMERICAN PUBLIC HAVING THE INCOME TO SHOP!
Well, their PROFITS will suffer, they are NOW SUFFERING, and the ONLY REASON they BELIEVE they are making money is because they are LAYING OFF the Worker's ... well you dumb azzes, if we, the People don't have an INCOME, how the hell do you expect us to HAVE MONEY TO SHOP!
YOUR GREED IS COMING HOME TO EXPLOIT YOUR DUMB AZZES!
For you NEED EMPLOYEE'S AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, OR ANY PEOPLE TO PURCHASE YOUR PRODUCT, IF THEY DON'T HAVE THE MONEY TO PURCHASE ... WELL, WHAT DO YOU THINK WILL HAPPEN?????
You GREEDY, SELFISH EVIL SOB'S, your DAY of RECONING is COMING .. REAL SOON!
Watch how many of your EMPLOYEE'S YOU'VE LAID OFF, your SLAVE WAGES don't do anything but ... hopefully pay RENT and put food on your employee's tables; now tell us, where are they going to have the EXTRA INCOME, with your less minimun WAGES,will they have MONEY LEFT OVER, TO SHOP!
TALK ABOUT STUCK ON SUPER STUPID, YOU GUYS ARE SO WEALTHY, YOU'VE LOST ALL COMMON SENSE .... AS IF YOU EVER HAD ANY!
Rubio has it backward. As automation reduces how much human labor is needed, wages must go up. As population stays the same while jobs disappear, we need to shorten the work week and the work life (lowering retirement age and allowing more educational delays to entering the workforce) so that the work that needs to get done is spread more evenly among the people, allowing everyone to earn enough to survive, thrive and retire. But this means that everyone must be paid more per unit of time that they actually work, so that the lifetime total is the same.
Rubio has it backward. As automation reduces how much human labor is needed, wages must go up. I'll explain on todays' post.
Mud Fight
{… a rhyme …}
Ah, were we soaking in Socialism’s suds,
having long since nipped in their worm-rotten buds
and dumped in mud-holes the Rightwinger cruds
and whomped them with boot-heeled and ball-batted thuds.
. . . . .
http://gurutotheoutdoors.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/mudwrestle02-1024x675.jpg
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In response to "It's the policies stupid" I think it would take an ordinary person only a minute or two to corrolate the decline of the poor since Clinton with 8 years of Bush. Even since Bush and the financial mess he left Republicans have blocked every effort of the Obama administration to help them. If the Democrats are going to loose in 2016, it will be beacuse you and the rest of the right wing continue to baffle them with lies and half truths.
Voodoo
{… 1.10 limericks …}
You’re silly, you Rightists: - you who
tout Rea-gan-om-ics voodoo.
‘Tho’ it’s full of flaws,
you flap your jaws
with nary a pause.
Horse feathers!!, and horses’ doo-doo!!
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In my opinion, compulsory voting as in Australian style is the answer. This way the Foxmerized, God, and Gun voters would finally have some company on election day...unwanted company!!!!
Listen to these marxist creeps as they bait you with manufactured grievance and you will not only stay poor, you will lose your rights as a citizen. Folks of color in particular are exploited by marxists. There's no greater "social justice" known to man than the free-market enterprise of the United States, no finer guiding principle of equality than individual liberty. Beware the regressive Left, they are not your friends.
I know this country is doomed if any of the jokers in the Rebublican party win, The truth is they will if they run against Hillary. She is probably the most hated politician in this country I live in the center of red I know what people say about her. There was a small poll conducted here in my small town by the local paper this was before Biden announced . If election was held today between Hillary, Biden and Bernie who would win?
Bernie 58 %
Hillary 21%
Biden 21%
This was really shocking to me because I didn't think anyone here in the middle of a red state would even know who Bernie was. It is obvious to me that less wealthy republicans will vote for Bernie over dumb Donald any day.
100% not sure I can trust this poll because it might have been hacked.
I truly believe that this would have been the year for a third-party president to win the election, then again the electoral college would decide who wins rather than the popular vote.
I donated to Bernie Campaign got a tee shirt . I have catchy slogan that should be on it. Underneath Bernie 2016 I want to put a picture of a toilet with congressman being flushed down it under that it says
EVERY GOOD MOVEMENT DESERVES A FLUSH
HELP BERNIE FLUSH CONGRESS 2016
For Veteran's Day; part of something I came up with about 10 yrs ago:
I am a veteran, I fought in two wars
I still carry physical and emotional scars
But the care I need, is a long distance away
And now they require a bigger co-pay
Although sometimes I have to go without heat
It’s OK, some of my brothers live on the streets
We were, told the world is yours, sign the dotted line
And we’ll always be there for you, things will be fine
Can’t you see the hypocrisy
No one sees, the fringe of society
Tom today said: GMO food producers can challenge our labeling laws if they predict that those laws will interfere even slightly with their prospective profits.
I looked for this in the text but could not find it. Could someone send me the pertinent paragraph (ordal@uiuc.edu). Thanks.
Weather Havocs
{… a rhyme …}
Use “havoc” as a verb
about weathers which disturb:
“Havoc havocs Ever’whur,” -
- yet Rightists tend to demur
that this is the case.
Fantasies they chase.
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Please, don't give up just yet! Obama WON, and the whole world, including myself, did NOT believe it was possible, but he WON! Truth is, that's how BAD the Bush administration SCREWED UP this Country, and had the WORLD, pissed off with America! Therefore, I strongly believe the American People, does not want to live in another Republican Warmongering Era!
So lets, HOPE and PRAY, that we can obtain these SAME RESULTS with Bernie, in addition to getting the Political Revolution involved, so when he is ELECTED, he will have a PROGRESSIVE House and Senate, so we can GET THINGS DONE!
If the PEOPLE TURN OUT, as they did for OBAMA, you BETTER BELIEVE, Bernie Sanders WILL BE OUR NEXT PRESIDENT! Problem is, we must ensure that the PEOPLE STAY INVOLVED in EVERY ELECTION thereafter, if NOT, Bernie CAN very well end up with a Congress and Senate, OBSTRUCTING EVERYTHING!
and those POLLS, I don't BELEIVE them for one second! Big Business WANTS Hillary for their President, because she will keep things AS THEY ARE .... FOR THE 1%!
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