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Brigid

(17,621 posts)
Mon Apr 21, 2014, 09:23 AM Apr 2014

"What's everybody so happy about?"

"We just lost our jobs." -- anonymous GM assembly line worker as his coworkers cheer the last Chevy truck rolling down the line as the plant prepares to close in "Roger and Me."

Now here comes Deputy Fred to evict somebody from their home.

This film came out, what, 25 years ago or more? If anything, it's even worse now.

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"What's everybody so happy about?" (Original Post) Brigid Apr 2014 OP
Because we allowed Teabaggers into Congress in the LAST midterms.... VanillaRhapsody Apr 2014 #1
Still... aikoaiko Apr 2014 #2
Now I have visions . . . Brigid Apr 2014 #3
 

VanillaRhapsody

(21,115 posts)
1. Because we allowed Teabaggers into Congress in the LAST midterms....
Mon Apr 21, 2014, 09:25 AM
Apr 2014

we'd be in much better shape if we hadn't let that happen last time. Let it be a lesson to us!

Brigid

(17,621 posts)
3. Now I have visions . . .
Mon Apr 21, 2014, 10:25 AM
Apr 2014

Of those auto workers dancing and singing that song as that last truck rolls down the line.

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