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Comment on Austerity Is Dead – So Can We Fix The Infrastructure NOW? by dhfabian

dhfabian — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 00:59:03 +0000

Huh? Austerity is alive, well and fully enforced on the post-middle class/poor.

Comment on Grateful Dead 1967 by dhfabian

dhfabian — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 00:56:07 +0000

That was a hopeful era, but by post-Reagan standards, wildly naive. Just because something works doesn’t mean we should do it. Why would people have thought there might be less war if we stopped invading foreign countries, launching wars? Or that we could reduce poverty by aiding the poor (OK, so welfare did enable over 80% of recipients to quit welfare for work by the time their children started school, and the US reached its height of shared wealth AND productivity, from WWll until the1980s, largely because of those awful welfare programs, but that’s not the point.) What insanity to consider working cooperatively, each according to his/her abilities, for the (eek!) common good! The list goes on. Damn hippies (I miss you all — Electric George, Liz, JP, the Co-op crowd, etc.).

Comment on Old Economy Coming Back by dhfabian

dhfabian — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 01:33:25 +0000

Bad, and probably hopeless, because we can’t/won’t have a legitimate discussion about our situation. We can’t have a legitimate discussion because an entire chunk of the population has been “disappeared” from the public discussion by the Reagan/Clinton generation. Because of Clinton’s policies, severe poverty in the US has doubled, and we have fools trying to sell us today’s version of trickle-down economics (this time, “prosperity from the middle out.”). Because we cut the rungs off the ladder of poverty, poverty grows deeper and wider with every small downturn of the economy. Bottom line is that you can’t get a job when you no longer have a home address, phone, clean clothes, bus fare. We probably should consider the consequences of a growing chunk of the population that has nothing left to lose, no consequences to fear, and that middle class America has treated with such utter contempt.

Comment on The Latest Lie: IRS Targeted Conservatives by Phony IRS “Scandal” — We’ve Been O’Keefe’d Again | Seeing the Forest

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:36:54 +0000

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Comment on The Latest Lie: IRS Targeted Conservatives by What Did He Know .. — Why Now?

What Did He Know .. — Why Now? — Wed, 22 May 2013 22:00:46 +0000

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Comment on Do The Math On Jobs by Scenes from the class war – PatheosPůjčka | Půjčka

Scenes from the class war – PatheosPůjčka | Půjčka — Tue, 21 May 2013 21:44:07 +0000

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Comment on Do The Math On Jobs by Scenes from the class war – PatheosÚvěr | Úvěr

Scenes from the class war – PatheosÚvěr | Úvěr — Tue, 21 May 2013 21:23:27 +0000

[...] now companies could use the cash they are sitting on to hire every unemployed person at $395,000 a year, and have cash left [...]

Comment on Phony IRS “Scandal” — We’ve Been O’Keefe’d Again by SOS | Seniors for a Democratic Society

SOS | Seniors for a Democratic Society — Thu, 16 May 2013 11:28:05 +0000

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Comment on Phony IRS “Scandal” — We’ve Been O’Keefe’d Again by Links 5/16/13 – The Doctor News

Links 5/16/13 – The Doctor News — Thu, 16 May 2013 11:23:45 +0000

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Comment on Do The Math On Jobs by Scenes from the class war

Scenes from the class war — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 20:59:54 +0000

[...] now companies could use the cash they are sitting on to hire every unemployed person at $395,000 a year, and have cash left [...]