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the breeze
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Posted on: Sep. 22 2015,1:21 pm |
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> Subj: This is why > > This is why Trump is zooming ahead. He is at least talking about issues that most Americans are concerned about. My mantra about Trump is this: I am in agreement with most of what he says. I just wish someone else was saying it. > We are getting older and our tickers aren't what they used to be...so here is Our Special > Bucket List for 2015,16... > HERE IS ALL WE WANT.. > 1. Hillary: in prison! > 2. Put "GOD" back in America!!! > 3. Borders: Closed! > 4. Congress: On the same retirement & healthcare plans as everybody else . > 5. Congress: Obey its own laws NOW! > 6. Language: English only! > 7. Culture: Constitution, and the Bill of Rights! > 8. Drug Free: Mandatory Drug Screening before & during Welfare! > 9. NO freebies to Non-Citizens! > 10. Balance the budget. > 11. Stop giving away our money to foreign countries! Charge them for our help! We need it here. > 12. Fix the TAX CODE! > 13. IMPEACH the DICTATOR!! > And most of all. > 14. "RESPECT OUR MILITARY, LAW ENFORCEMENT AND OUR FLAG!!"
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Glad I Left
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Posted on: Sep. 22 2015,4:15 pm |
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Trump is like a pair of Zubaz. Seems really cool at first but after a few months you realize how loud and obnoxious they really are.
-------------- After we screw up health care reform, let's take on the initiative of unscrewing the education system (gov't education) Tacitus: (c. 56 AD-c. 117) "The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates."
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Self-Banished
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Posted on: Sep. 22 2015,5:59 pm |
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Could be worse, could be stroke lady, she never was and will never be cool. I think she knows it too.
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Glad I Left
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Posted on: Sep. 23 2015,12:53 pm |
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I dunno. when the argument starts with.. could be worse.. you know you are just choosing between different colored turds.
-------------- After we screw up health care reform, let's take on the initiative of unscrewing the education system (gov't education) Tacitus: (c. 56 AD-c. 117) "The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates."
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Self-Banished
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Posted on: Sep. 23 2015,1:57 pm |
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ain't that the truth.
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Rosalind_Swenson
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Posted on: Sep. 23 2015,2:51 pm |
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I think somebody already posted this in the forum awhile back.
The central point that emerges from our research is that economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while mass-based interest groups and average citizens have little or no independent influence. Our results provide substantial support for theories of Economic-Elite Domination and for theories of Biased Pluralism, but not for theories of Majoritarian Electoral Democracy or Majoritarian Pluralism. ....
When the preferences of economic elites and the stands of organized interest groups are controlled for, the preferences of the average American appear to have only a minuscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy. ....
When a majority of citizens disagrees with economic elites or with organized interests, they generally lose. Moreover, because of the strong status quo bias built into the U.S. political system, even when fairly large majorities of Americans favor policy change, they generally do not get it.
http://scholar.princeton.edu/sites...doc.pdf
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stardust14
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Posted on: Sep. 24 2015,1:17 am |
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Hippies, then Yuppies, then Teabaggers, now Trumpies. The vast backwater of the Silent Majority has a way of giving life to some bizarre strange creatures. But we must accept evolution with all its experiments and mutations.
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Self-Banished
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Posted on: Nov. 03 2015,5:50 pm |
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It seems the Donald is at it again
http://www.cnbc.com/2015...st.html
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stardust14
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Posted on: Nov. 04 2015,11:51 pm |
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"The basic imperatives of casino capitalism - extending from eliminating corporate taxes and shifting wealth from the public to the private sector to dismantling corporate regulations and insisting that markets should govern all of social life - have become the new common sense. Any viable notion of the social solidarity and shared democratic values are now viewed as a pathology, replaced by a survival of the fittest ethic, the celebration of self-interest and a notion of the good life entirely tied to a vapid consumerist ethic. Casino capitalism has created a dead zone of the imagination that even Orwell could not have envisioned.
The "dreams" that Donald Trump and many other demagogues running for president are trying to evoke are really racist illusions that comfort followers, but ignore the realities of white supremacy. They are a mirage, hiding the ongoing reality of a historical nightmare."
From: Truthout.org
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