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0rganism (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-27-08 01:13 AM Original message |
how is it that we can afford $$700 billion$$ to bail out wall street but not universal health care? |
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grannylib (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-27-08 01:15 AM Response to Original message |
1. We can afford it; we just don't DESERVE it, according to these fuckers. |
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0rganism (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-27-08 01:21 AM Response to Reply #1 |
4. that's sure what it seems like to me,,, but what about the Democratic MAJORITY? |
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grannylib (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-27-08 01:24 AM Response to Reply #4 |
5. Oh I hear you! I was literally beating my head against the wall |
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Irish Girl (265 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-27-08 07:08 AM Response to Reply #4 |
17. exactly |
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Mind_your_head (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-27-08 01:26 AM Response to Reply #1 |
7. Bookmarking what you said. Truer words than this are hardly ever spoken! |
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G_j (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-27-08 01:29 AM Response to Reply #1 |
9. wealth-care n/t |
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billyoc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-27-08 01:16 AM Response to Original message |
2. Simple. The people without health care don't think they're too big to fail. |
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0rganism (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-27-08 01:29 AM Response to Reply #2 |
8. maybe all the uninsured should invest in a congresscritter or three. |
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Union Thug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-27-08 01:20 AM Response to Original message |
3. Cuz' in 'Merka, we worship the CEO / Executive class... |
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0rganism (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-27-08 01:25 AM Response to Reply #3 |
6. dunno, I see a lot of mixed feelings going around |
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Two Americas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-27-08 01:35 AM Response to Reply #6 |
11. nothing to do with either |
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Mind_your_head (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-27-08 01:32 AM Response to Reply #3 |
10. Please tell me where I can lay "my worship down" |
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NuttyFluffers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-27-08 01:37 AM Response to Original message |
12. because americans don't have national strikes for what they want. |
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bridgit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-27-08 01:39 AM Response to Original message |
13. republicans consider 'universal health care' socialism, they'll filibuster till the end of time... |
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chill_wind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-27-08 03:32 AM Response to Original message |
14. Here are some of the trade-offs. |
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ForeignSpectator (970 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-27-08 06:24 AM Response to Original message |
15. George Carlin had an explanation for it : |
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Irish Girl (265 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-27-08 07:13 AM Response to Reply #15 |
18. .. |
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mdavies013 (292 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-27-08 06:44 AM Response to Original message |
16. one helps companies (good), one helps people (bad) cause some are poor people |
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mmonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-27-08 07:16 AM Response to Original message |
19. The same way we can cut social services and education funding |
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Patiod (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-27-08 07:44 AM Response to Original message |
20. That's the Norquist Doctrine |
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Suspicious (780 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-27-08 07:53 AM Response to Original message |
21. It's called Serfdom... |
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chill_wind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-27-08 10:45 AM Response to Original message |
22. .. |
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avaistheone1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-29-08 01:05 PM Response to Original message |
23. Unlike the financial industy lobbyists who given our legistlators in Washington $43Billion dollars, |
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