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In reply to the discussion: Why They Get Away With Cutting Welfare [View all]TBF
(32,047 posts)53. "That's all that can be done for now"
That's what they'd like you to think.
There's much that COULD be done. We've dealt with their kind historically ... I prefer that we figure out how to use taxation to benefit ALL as opposed to the gilded few, but there are other methods.
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Rather than "the winners and the losers"...we should say "the lucky and the unlucky".
Ken Burch
Dec 2014
#12
We have idiots who rail about foreign aid saying we should care for our own people first....
Spitfire of ATJ
Dec 2014
#18
Krugman: Racism: "our unique suspicion of and hostility to social insurance and anti-poverty
pampango
Dec 2014
#20
It is my belief that those at the bottom and all the way up to the middle middle class really
LiberalArkie
Dec 2014
#31
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Dec 2014
#35
K&R! We have many people living, working, investing and dying for conservative (corporate) ends.
raouldukelives
Dec 2014
#43