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groovedaddy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-31-11 11:36 AM Original message |
The New Resentment of the Poor |
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TwilightGardener (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-31-11 11:38 AM Response to Original message |
1. They're not even hiding their contempt anymore for the non-wealthy. |
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HockeyMom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-31-11 11:38 AM Response to Original message |
2. Add in the Old and the Sick too |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-31-11 11:54 AM Response to Original message |
3. It never occurs to them what what they SHOULD be arguing for is |
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w0nderer (430 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-31-11 10:05 PM Response to Reply #3 |
14. very true |
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DJ13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-31-11 12:07 PM Response to Original message |
4. K&R |
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n2doc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-31-11 12:08 PM Response to Original message |
5. And yet they wouldn't have a job if a lot of those poor didn't vote for them |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-31-11 12:09 PM Response to Original message |
6. Why? Aren't we becoming a commodity upon which "faith"-based "initiatives" will feed? |
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nashville_brook (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-31-11 12:30 PM Response to Original message |
7. must read article of the day |
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booley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-31-11 12:30 PM Response to Original message |
8. It's not resentment. |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-31-11 12:53 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. In the case of the truly rich, it's often ignorance |
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groovedaddy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-01-11 06:58 AM Response to Reply #9 |
16. They do, in deed, live in a bubble! n.t |
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COLGATE4 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-31-11 12:54 PM Response to Original message |
10. They're just not bothering to hide their belief in the 'Protestant |
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Cool Logic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-31-11 01:45 PM Response to Original message |
11. "...giving working families thousands of dollars a year in tax refunds." |
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bhikkhu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-01-11 12:27 AM Response to Reply #11 |
15. Child Care Credit, for instance |
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katty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-31-11 04:11 PM Response to Original message |
12. criminalizing the poor - these arrogant assholes |
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bvar22 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-31-11 08:59 PM Response to Original message |
13. Jon Stewart summed it up prefectly a few weeks ago. |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-01-11 09:26 AM Response to Reply #13 |
17. Those sociopaths braying about class warfare... |
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Overseas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-01-11 11:51 AM Response to Original message |
18. Wow. Big News is actually acknowledging the successful right wing PR of the post-Reagan era? |
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