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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 03:48 PM
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Blinded by greed, oblivious to need: How socially irresponsible Republicans are killing America
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Blinded by greed, oblivious to need: How socially irresponsible Republicans are killing America
by Dennis Rahkonen | February 12, 2009

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All this completely wrong-headed obstructionism occurred as the unemployment rate soared to record levels and mass hardship was becoming epidemic. Elkhart, Indiana will soon be Everytown, USA.

It happened shortly after one of our community's television stations ran a sobering piece on area homelessness, featuring a man who lived in a scrap-built shelter in the woods, when the wind chill routinely exceeded 30 below!

Where is the "Christianity" of those who greedily devote all their efforts to preserving their privileged, luxurious status, derived by a parasitic sucking of working-class lifeblood?

What manner of "human" can see profit and suffering before him, know that relentless pursuit of the former inevitably causes the latter, and still blithely seek more profit, at the painful expense of public welfare and the common good?

Before our sofas and televisions become evicted furniture out on the sidewalks, we need to rise from our torpor and fight back, like our forebears did in the Rebel '30s, using exactly the same tactics.

Get mad as hell. Unite, organize.

This is our country, and we can't allow traitors loyal only to The Almighty Dollar to destroy America.
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Parche Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 03:49 PM
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1. it was helped by the greedy oil speculators
that drove prices sky high
and fuked up the whole world economy
:grr: :hi:
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Peace Patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 03:55 PM
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2. They are not just "only loyal to The Almighty Dollar," they are loyal to that Dollar being in
...Saudi Arabia, Singapore, the UAE, China, the Cayman Islands, Swiss Bank accounts, anywhere but here. This is the new twist: Treason!
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