SoCalDem
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Sat Jun-23-07 06:15 PM
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Y'know how republicans want us all to believe that the private sector can solve all our problems? |
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Edited on Sat Jun-23-07 07:02 PM by SoCalDem
and how they loathe the very idea of "socialized' medicine" or "regulated banking" or "regulated home insurance" or regulated energy plans"??
These are the same people who see NOTHING wrong with mega-mergers/mass-consolidations..
The argument they use is, that once these companies all merge, they can be MORE efficient..serve us better...and offer us lower prices.
They said it about cable..they said it about phone service..they said it about banking..they said it about air travel..they said it about agrigulture/mega-farms..
They want us to believe that consolidating everything into fewer and fewer private hands does us a service, and yet the very idea of consolidating medical care into one entity is somehow a bad idea..
food for thought..
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ayeshahaqqiqa
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Sat Jun-23-07 06:18 PM
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that the rwingers are not logical.
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jpgray
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Sat Jun-23-07 06:20 PM
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2. Well once you realize that their logic is all just a screen for making boatloads of money |
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Everything makes sense again. However they don't need to make sense, they just need to confuse enough people to scrape out their little monopolies, deregulate as much as possible, and then rake in the money.
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Sat Jun-23-07 06:23 PM
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3. It's not only about Neo-Cons...what's lost is Grover Norquist/Gingrich Drown Gov't in Bath Tub |
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Politics that's infested our Politics. and our Dems...suck up to it as "enablers" as Dem Light...:-(
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Deja Q
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Sat Jun-23-07 06:26 PM
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6. So when government drowns, won't they lose their jobs in the process? |
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Sat Jun-23-07 06:26 PM
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4. Certain magazines originally propped up corporations - then later denounced them, asking |
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"Where were they?"
I won't disagree that "big government" is bad. Yet nobody has said how "big corporation" is really any better.
They also claimed offshoring would allow lower prices. Well, Microsoft Office 2007 and Vista cost far more than XP and are buggier than hell*; so all those offshored jobs haven't done a damn bit of good. Dell's PCs are shite; their support worse (trust me, they cook books regarding corporate monitor extended warranty replacement plans that make no sense, particularly as LCD is said to be expensive - why do they allow such waste?) I could go on.
* Vista has proven itself buggy over time. Particularly with WGA-related issues, but there are others... Office 2007 is still quite stable, much to my surprise.
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Sat Jun-23-07 06:26 PM
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5. Private monopolies, good. Public monopolies bad. |
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A natural reponse from those who own those private monopolies.
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Deja Q
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Sat Jun-23-07 06:27 PM
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7. And the vice-versa can be the same way, too. |
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Sat Jun-23-07 06:29 PM
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8. More food for thought: people who work as civil servants CARE about people. |
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Edited on Sat Jun-23-07 06:30 PM by sicksicksick_N_tired
The private companies who have replaced them CARE ABOUT MONEY MONEY MONEY.
The truth!!!! WHERE IS YOUR TAX DOLLARS BEST SPENT: ON PEOPLE WHO SERVE YOU OR PEOPLE WHO SERVE MONEY?
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sicksicksick_N_tired
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Sat Jun-23-07 06:32 PM
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9. Another question: who is your government SUPPOSED TO SERVE with your money? |
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Simple questions.
Who is your government serving,...with your money?
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Sat Jun-23-07 06:53 PM
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Edited on Sat Jun-23-07 06:53 PM by junofeb
Thanks, you say it well, and great replies, too.
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