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tblue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-23-09 01:22 AM
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24. But nobody listens to those people.
They are invisible. When you're poor, foreclosed on, you are nobody and nobody cares -- except the liberals, so it's up to us.


From Matt Taibbi's blog:
/snip

I heard a story recently from a Democratic Party operative who tells me that certain members of one of the president’s cabinet departments only got wind of how hard it is out there for ordinary people to pay their bills when they invited in a major corporation to give them a presentation about their financial outlook for the holiday season — and through that report found out that this company’s prospective customers were spending less because large numbers of them had been laid off, or had huge medical bills, or had maxed out their credit, and so on.
/snip

http://trueslant.com/matttaibbi/2009/10/22/elizabeth-warren-for-president/
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