Stinky The Clown
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Thu Oct-13-11 06:30 AM
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South Korea, Colombia, and Panama get the clean end of the stick. More of our fellow Americans . . . |
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. . . . get to grip the shitty end of the stick.
Whoopie!
Free Trade.
We ship out jobs and money. They ship back stuff we used to make.
Yippee!
Huzzah!
Go Team!
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nc4bo
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Thu Oct-13-11 06:32 AM
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1. You forgot one....USA!11! USA!1!! |
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More knives into the backs of the middle/working class.
Thanks so much everyone.
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Thu Oct-13-11 06:37 AM
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Donnachaidh
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Thu Oct-13-11 06:44 AM
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3. CHANGE we can believe in!!!!!!! |
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Little did we know the change would be a downgrade to third world banana republic. :shrug:
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Shagbark Hickory
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Thu Oct-13-11 08:36 AM
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9. Technically if we were a banana republic, at least we'd have some exports. |
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Edited on Thu Oct-13-11 08:36 AM by Shagbark Hickory
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Donnachaidh
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Thu Oct-13-11 08:44 AM
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11. I'll bet someone has figures on sex slaves from the US |
Shagbark Hickory
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Thu Oct-13-11 08:53 AM
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13. I'm pretty sure we're importing those as well. |
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But I was referring to bananas. :crazy:
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Thu Oct-13-11 06:53 AM
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4. And Colombia is still one of the most dangerous places on Earth for organized labor |
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Edited on Thu Oct-13-11 06:54 AM by ck4829
So, how much blood and violence was used to build that product you get from Colombia that you used to make without the blood or violence?
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City Lights
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Thu Oct-13-11 06:55 AM
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5. Oh yeah! USA so totally rulz! |
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Thu Oct-13-11 07:08 AM
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6. "Who the #@$% else ya gonna vote for, chumps?" nt |
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Thu Oct-13-11 07:21 AM
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8. You said it wrong, it's ""Who the #@$% else ya gonna vote for, #@$%*!& retards?" /nt |
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Thu Oct-13-11 07:12 AM
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7. There is a great video posted about standing with Obama to create American Jobs. |
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F- that. This guy is such a phony.
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Thu Oct-13-11 08:39 AM
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10. Time to eat our peas.....if we can still afford them |
Stinky The Clown
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Thu Oct-13-11 08:50 AM
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12. No peas. Just one pea. That's all we can afford. |
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Soon enough, that will be pee. You know. Trickling down.
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Thu Oct-13-11 09:05 AM
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14. Free trade is not the problem or Europeans wouldn't do it. The problem is all the progressive |
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policies that we don't have.
When a country has regressive taxes, weakened unions, a shattered safety net, a very ineffective health care system and a deregulated corporate environment (like the US with its highly inequitable distribution of income), it seems like "free trade" is a cause of many problems.
When a country (or a continent in Europe's case) has high/progressive taxes, strong unions, an effective safety net, national health care and effective corporate regulation (resulting in a fairer society with an equitable distribution of income), it seems like "free trade" and relatively open borders are part of being a liberal democracy. In Europe it's the right (particularly the far-right) that fights against open borders and for tariffs. Liberal democracy doesn't particularly interest them.
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