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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsREPORT: The Republican Candidates’ Economic Agenda For The 1 Percent
REPORT: The Republican Candidates Economic Agenda For The 1 Percenthttp://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/01/02/395363/gop-economic-agenda-for-the-one-percent/
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REPORT: The Republican Candidates’ Economic Agenda For The 1 Percent (Original Post)
ProSense
Jan 2012
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ProSense
(116,464 posts)1. Kick! n/t
renegade000
(2,301 posts)2. and this is why i really don't understand the Ron Paul love here...
Sure he's unorthodox (for Republicans) in a few issues, but his principles just so happen to line up with what the corporate oligarchs want anyways... oh yeah, we'll end the wars and send all that money straight into the bank accounts of the 1%.
I'd understand it much more if someone like Bernie Sanders was the alternative to Obama that people were touting...heck I might even get behind him... but Ron Paul?!?!
ProSense
(116,464 posts)3. He's a corporate tool, and
that's not the worst of it.
deacon
(5,967 posts)4. They could save a lot of time by just nominating Norquist. n/t
Paul did sign the pledge.
http://s3.amazonaws.com/atrfiles/files/files/120111-federalpledgesigners.pdf
He signed it in 2008 too: http://www.atr.org/rep-ron-paul-signs-presidential-taxpayer-a1489