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Punx

(446 posts)
Tue Jun 30, 2015, 07:13 PM Jun 2015

Along the Greece theme, more here… Coming to the USA I fear.

Though there is no need for it to be this way. What the writer says is really profound imho. I think quite a few of us see a different version of this happening in slow motion here in the US. Look at the Ryan budget that passed the house.

If belonging to the largest and richest trading bloc in the world cannot provide dinner for a retired teacher like her, it has no reason to exist. If a European Union which produces €28,000 of annual GDP for every single one of its citizens cannot provide a safety net for her, then it is profoundly wicked. If this is not a union of partners, but a gang of big players and small players, who cut the weakest loose at the first sign of trouble, then it is nothing. Each one of us will have to engage in an internal battle before Sunday’s referendum. I will be thinking of you, Magda, when I vote. It seems as honest a basis to make a decision as any.

https://www.byline.com/column/11/article/126

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Along the Greece theme, more here… Coming to the USA I fear. (Original Post) Punx Jun 2015 OP
Thank you. Moving. JDPriestly Jun 2015 #1
Your welcome Punx Jun 2015 #2
K&R F4lconF16 Jul 2015 #3

JDPriestly

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1. Thank you. Moving.
Tue Jun 30, 2015, 08:08 PM
Jun 2015

Coming to the US . . . I have little doubt.

This is oligarchy. The poor are reduced to nothingness. The middle class reduced to cheap labor. The rich elevated beyond their worth.

That's where we are headed.

Go, Bernie. We aren't there yet. We don't have to go there either.

Punx

(446 posts)
2. Your welcome
Tue Jun 30, 2015, 11:29 PM
Jun 2015

Well said,

Reduced to cheap labor, or Krill to be harvested, our dried out husks discarded when everything of worth has been sucked out of us.

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