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NeoConsSuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-20-11 10:08 PM Original message |
Path Is Sought for States to Escape Debt Burdens |
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totodeinhere (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-20-11 10:16 PM Response to Original message |
1. This is part of the plan to bust public employee unions. |
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freshwest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-20-11 10:25 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Not only that, but to privatize and surrender to corporate fiefdoms. |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-20-11 10:29 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. I believe in unions and I believe in retirement |
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PSPS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-20-11 10:59 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. Maybe they are, maybe they aren't. You need to provide more detail. |
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Pale Blue Dot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-20-11 11:59 PM Response to Reply #6 |
10. Yes, I would also like to hear more details. |
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ClassWarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-20-11 10:25 PM Response to Original message |
3. Another Con job. Here's the expose from Truthout.org... |
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sendero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-21-11 06:13 AM Response to Reply #3 |
17. I'd like to agree with this.. |
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Skink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-20-11 10:44 PM Response to Original message |
5. we could let states run deficits. |
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Volaris (479 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-20-11 11:02 PM Response to Original message |
7. or we could try raising taxes |
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jwirr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-20-11 11:26 PM Response to Original message |
8. My daughter was talking to me about the deficit. She wondered |
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Psephos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-21-11 12:48 AM Response to Reply #8 |
12. It sounds like you're talking about the national debt, not states' debts. |
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trud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-21-11 04:20 AM Response to Reply #8 |
15. "We Love America" telethon. |
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Historic NY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-20-11 11:41 PM Response to Original message |
9. They better be prepared for pitchforks & torchs coming over the barricades. |
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sarcasmo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-21-11 11:10 AM Response to Reply #9 |
18. Exactly, if they mess with the retirees pensions imagine the chaos. This might be the breaking |
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DeSwiss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-21-11 12:07 AM Response to Original message |
11. K&R |
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Sen. Walter Sobchak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-21-11 02:45 AM Response to Original message |
13. the problem is, by any measure... |
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trud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-21-11 04:18 AM Response to Original message |
14. hurray for this |
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Dappleganger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-21-11 05:08 AM Response to Reply #14 |
16. You're talking about double-dipping... |
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sarcasmo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-21-11 11:13 AM Response to Reply #14 |
19. Really? Do you know how many people rely on their pensions to survive? |
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MadMaddie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-21-11 06:31 PM Response to Original message |
20. They have made it more difficult for average citizens |
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