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Economic Terrorism
Wednesday, February 17, 2010 4:42 PM
OUT2THEBLACK
Wednesday, February 17, 2010 4:57 PM
Wednesday, February 17, 2010 5:04 PM
CHRISISALL
Wednesday, February 17, 2010 5:09 PM
RUE
I have a vote and I'm not afraid to use it!
Wednesday, February 17, 2010 5:14 PM
Quote:Originally posted by rue: The driving force behind all this is not government - it's business.
Wednesday, February 17, 2010 5:17 PM
Wednesday, February 17, 2010 5:22 PM
Quote:Originally posted by rue: I glad you asked ! Yes, there is ! B/c while we can't vote out the corporate boards, we CAN vote out our government. Yes, we CAN !
Wednesday, February 17, 2010 5:33 PM
Wednesday, February 17, 2010 5:44 PM
IREMISST
Wednesday, February 17, 2010 5:59 PM
FREMDFIRMA
Wednesday, February 17, 2010 6:06 PM
Wednesday, February 17, 2010 6:15 PM
KWICKO
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)
Quote:Originally posted by rue: The only reason this goes on is cynicism. There ARE differences between choices. Russell Feingold is not 'just like' Sam Brownback. If you have no good choices (especially in the primaries where it counts) you can always support a good congress-person outside of your district or state in a tight race. Here's the thing - large numbers of people HAVE to be involved. Large numbers of people have to be making consistent decisions over time. It's the only way that we are going to be able to take our democracy back. Or, we could just go back to letting them run us around. *************************************************************** Silence is consent.
Wednesday, February 17, 2010 6:58 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Iremisst: You ever talk to anybody you know speaks the same language as you and yet they simply don't have the wherewithal to process? Can't educate those who don't wanna BE educated...
Wednesday, February 17, 2010 8:20 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Iremisst: It's awful hard to rally a people to change a thing when a good deal of people BELIEVE there's not a thing that needs changing... That and 1 out of every 4 people have a serious mental illness these days, just imagine how many of them with the current system go untreated and then envision the task ahead... God, I need a cuppa hot tea... and a good forced sterilization program!
Wednesday, February 17, 2010 8:58 PM
Quote:Originally posted by rue: Aside from that, we already live in a company town - it's just that the company is now global, as is the town.
Wednesday, February 17, 2010 9:13 PM
Thursday, February 18, 2010 4:26 AM
Quote:Originally posted by Fremdfirma: That's why Cricket Bats really exist.
Thursday, February 18, 2010 4:34 AM
Quote:Originally posted by out2theblack: Nice of you to drop by and say hello !
Thursday, February 18, 2010 7:21 AM
SIGNYM
I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.
Quote:The fight over health care reform burst back into public view Tuesday as four Democratic senators asked Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to hold a vote on a government-run public insurance option. Most observers have considered the public option -- an idea long favored by liberal Democrats -- to be a non-starter since it was dropped from a Senate reform bill passed in December. But Sens. Michael Bennet of Colorado, Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, Jeff Merkley of Oregon, and Sherrod Brown of Ohio signed a letter urging Reid, D-Nevada, to hold a vote on the proposal under a rule known as a reconciliation, which would allow the measure to pass with only 51 votes -- a simple majority. The letter was co-signed by 119 Democrats in the House of Representatives. Liberal groups MoveOn.org, the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, Democracy for America, and Credo Action are pushing other Democratic senators to sign the letter as well.
Thursday, February 18, 2010 9:24 AM
NIKI2
Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...
Quote:You ever talk to anybody you know speaks the same language as you and yet they simply don't have the wherewithal to process? Can't educate those who don't wanna BE educated...
Thursday, February 18, 2010 2:47 PM
Quote:Originally posted by rue: ...If you have no good choices (especially in the primaries where it counts) you can always support a good congress-person outside of your district or state in a tight race. Here's the thing - large numbers of people HAVE to be involved. Large numbers of people have to be making consistent decisions over time. It's the only way that we are going to be able to take our democracy back. Or, we could just go back to letting them run us around.
Thursday, February 18, 2010 2:52 PM
Thursday, February 18, 2010 2:54 PM
Thursday, February 18, 2010 5:24 PM
Thursday, February 18, 2010 5:58 PM
Quote:Originally posted by rue: But capitalism MUST expand
Thursday, February 18, 2010 6:07 PM
Thursday, February 18, 2010 6:08 PM
Quote:Originally posted by SignyM: The Richest 1% Have Captured America's Wealth -- What's It Going to Take to Get It Back? www.alternet.org/economy/145705/the_richest_1%25_have_captured_america%27s_wealth_--_what%27s_it_going_to_take_to_get_it_back
Thursday, February 18, 2010 6:11 PM
Quote:Originally posted by rue: OOOHHh ... Balloons ! And loud noises ! A party ! I like parties. WHhhooo hooo !
Thursday, February 18, 2010 6:12 PM
Thursday, February 18, 2010 6:40 PM
Quote:Originally posted by out2theblack: Quote:Originally posted by rue: ...If you have no good choices (especially in the primaries where it counts) you can always support a good congress-person outside of your district or state in a tight race. Here's the thing - large numbers of people HAVE to be involved. Large numbers of people have to be making consistent decisions over time. It's the only way that we are going to be able to take our democracy back. Or, we could just go back to letting them run us around. "An oligarchy of private capital cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society because under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information." Albert Einstein - Physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. 1879-1955
Thursday, February 18, 2010 11:09 PM
LITTLEBIRD
Friday, February 19, 2010 3:15 AM
Friday, February 19, 2010 4:42 AM
Friday, February 19, 2010 5:42 AM
Friday, February 19, 2010 5:57 AM
Quote:...about how PEOPLE are failures for not living up to the American dream, about how it's not so bad, about how the system will make everything its sparkling best, in due time, of course. We just have to have faith and believe that the system is more important than ... we are.
Friday, February 19, 2010 9:35 AM
Friday, February 19, 2010 10:06 AM
Friday, February 19, 2010 11:07 AM
Friday, February 19, 2010 11:18 AM
Friday, February 19, 2010 12:07 PM
Friday, February 19, 2010 12:11 PM
Friday, February 19, 2010 12:50 PM
Quote:Originally posted by rue: I can't believe we are discussing how to just crawl away and not die. There are hundreds of millions of us, and less than a thousand of them. Sheesh. *************************************************************** Silence is consent.
Friday, February 19, 2010 11:26 PM
Tuesday, February 23, 2010 8:09 AM
Tuesday, February 23, 2010 8:11 AM
Tuesday, February 23, 2010 8:19 AM
Quote:Originally posted by rue: Speaking of banks: 702 banks at risk of failing Nearly one out of every 11 banks is at risk of going under, the FDIC says in a new report, according to CNNMoney.com. FULL STORY http://money.cnn.com/2010/02/23/news/companies/fdic_list/index.htm?hpt=T1 " With the FDIC having shuttered 20 banks so far this year, it is on track to seize at least as many financial institutions, if not more, as it did in 2009. Last year, the FDIC shut down a total of 140 lenders nationwide. Bair confirmed that the pace of bank failures would pick up this year, which would likely put a further strain on the agency's deposit insurance fund. This fund, which covers customer deposits when a bank fails, slipped into red last fall for the first time since 1991. The fund's deficit continued to balloon in the fourth quarter to nearly $21 billion - its largest deficit on record." Bush and Obama would have been FAR better off handing over the money to homeowners, and forbidding foreclosures until loans could be examined for fraud and renegotiated. The homeowners and the banks would have been covered, which would have covered subsequent investments made on home loans. Since investments made on loans multiply the losses, what they did was fruitlessly shovel money at phantom losses at the top of the investment chain, while leaving the underlying problems intact. Way to go, team ! *************************************************************** Silence is consent.
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