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on No Place to Call Home: Tent City
Anyone remember 'Hoovervilles'? The simple fact is that for forty years this country has ignored the poor, and the political system has decimated the so-called middle class. What will it take before the voters in this country wake up and save our republic from corporate fascists? Does everyone have to become homeless, unable to access healthcare and work for minimum wage before we take back our country from the super-wealthy and their political stooges?
posted 3 years, 6 months ago
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on An Hour With Al Gore
Given the vicious response by the Republican party and their corporate sponsors to health care reform, which is stalled in the Senate and appears doomed to be a watered-down, pro-industry bill...how can the average American expect anything meaningful in the way of climate change legislation short of revolution?
I'd also like to echo the comments of others here regarding population control. How can we overcome the worldwide cultural biases against birth control?
posted 3 years, 6 months ago
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on A Homeowner Bailout?
No, that's living without earthquake insurance in a place that has lots of earthquakes.
That's called dumb.
posted 4 years, 3 months ago
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on A Homeowner Bailout?
You were smart. We're bailing out the stupid. There are millions of stupid people, from Main St. to Wall St. Greed and short-term thinking are rewarded by our current system.
Fact is, that's the way it works. The dumb have to saved in order to save us all.
posted 4 years, 3 months ago
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on A Homeowner Bailout?
My dear Desolation
When you talk about "unavoidable casualties", you're actually saying that some people (millions) will just have to homeless, without medical care or food, living on charity for the foreseeable future. Somehow you think that this will ultimately 'solve' the problem. A bit cold-hearted, don't you think?
As for 'the politicians', let me remind you that some of our leaders were elected by the thinnest of popular vote margins, or with less than a majority. Some of them were elected by you: you can't blame them, when you allowed yourself to be fooled into voting for incompetent and corrupt individuals promoting a political philosophy that used to called Fascism, but that term is now un-PC. Look it up. Even Wikipedia has a decent article on the system.
Best of luck!
posted 4 years, 3 months ago
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on A Homeowner Bailout?
I'm offering this quote from FDR for all of us to contemplate. It applies both to how we got into this situation, and how we can get out of it.
The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling power.
"Among us today a concentration of private power without equal in history is growing."
-- President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
For those 'free market' types, I notice you all weren't griping about the government when things were going your way. Most of these posts are about whose ox is being gored, when in fact, the danger is to the Republic itself, by megacorporations and those folks who are deluded into embracing those values.
posted 4 years, 3 months ago
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