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GOP Wants The Country To Fall Apart So They Can Sell It Off Cheaply. (Original Post) TheMastersNemesis Feb 2014 OP
Simple, straight forward, and honest.... daleanime Feb 2014 #1
Precisely! nt 2naSalit Feb 2014 #2
"Extracting the remaining wealth" is the object, and making the country fall Nay Feb 2014 #3
Just like Detroit sawdust Feb 2014 #4
At least if they do that . . . Brigid Feb 2014 #13
Isn't that pretty much the plot of Robocop? tridim Feb 2014 #16
Looks like they're winning. sibelian Feb 2014 #5
It may "look like they're winning" from your vantage point, Sibby, whathehell Feb 2014 #12
If we give them Detroit will they leave the rest of the country alone? Heather MC Feb 2014 #6
Eggzaklee! Scuba Feb 2014 #7
Detroit ... selling off America 101 n/t etherealtruth Feb 2014 #8
To themselves malaise Feb 2014 #9
You win the internets for the day. Brigid Feb 2014 #10
They want you dead. n/t PowerToThePeople Feb 2014 #11
No they don't. bvar22 Feb 2014 #18
I don't agree with this Vox Moi Feb 2014 #14
Seling it off cheaply is the bonus. tridim Feb 2014 #15
"Ha ha. You smelly American proles can just suck it. Smirk. Sneer." - RepubliWankers (R - 1%) Berlum Feb 2014 #17

Nay

(12,051 posts)
3. "Extracting the remaining wealth" is the object, and making the country fall
Wed Feb 5, 2014, 01:56 PM
Feb 2014

apart is the most efficient way to throw people off their land and out of their houses (through taxes, job destruction, etc.) so those assets can be scooped up by the rapacious 1%. They are intent on remaking this country into their own set of fiefdoms, and they're well on their way to accomplishing that.

 

sawdust

(199 posts)
4. Just like Detroit
Wed Feb 5, 2014, 01:58 PM
Feb 2014

Is it true that a select few are trying to basically purchase the city of Detroit for a privately owned city? Is it possible?

Brigid

(17,621 posts)
13. At least if they do that . . .
Wed Feb 5, 2014, 02:23 PM
Feb 2014

We will know where to find them, all sequestered in one place, and then . . . Hey, this could be the start of a great dystopian novel!

whathehell

(29,035 posts)
12. It may "look like they're winning" from your vantage point, Sibby,
Wed Feb 5, 2014, 02:20 PM
Feb 2014

but your view, I'm afraid, is diminished by your distance from the "action".

bvar22

(39,909 posts)
18. No they don't.
Wed Feb 5, 2014, 03:15 PM
Feb 2014

"They" want a hungry Slave Labor Force to do all the work
and compete with each other for the few remaining jobs.


Vox Moi

(546 posts)
14. I don't agree with this
Wed Feb 5, 2014, 02:35 PM
Feb 2014

GOP is an enabling force and cheerleader for the Corporations and the rich.
It is the Corporations and the rich that want the country to degrade (not be destroyed) so they can buy it on the cheap and then rent it back for a profit.

It's about ownership and debt. They own, we owe.
Debt has replaced Religion and Royalty as the mechanism of choice by which a small group can control a large one.



tridim

(45,358 posts)
15. Seling it off cheaply is the bonus.
Wed Feb 5, 2014, 02:44 PM
Feb 2014

They want the country to fall apart because they hate the country, the majority of voters and the President.

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