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PETRUS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-11 11:45 AM
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The lies of free market democracy
By fighting against the doomed system, the 99 per cent have nothing to lose but their disposability and dispensability.

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Freedom in our times has been sold as "free market democracy". "Free markets" mean freedom for corporations to exploit whom and what they want, where they want, how they want. It means the end of freedom for people and nature everywhere. "Free market democracy" is in fact an oxymoron which has deluded us into believing that deregulation of corporations means freedom for us.


http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2011/11/20111112135744718390.html

More at the link.
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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-11 11:48 AM
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1. 'the 99 per cent have nothing to lose but their disposability and dispensability.' nt
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Vincardog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-11 12:00 PM
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2. When you have nothing to lose but years of thankless toil to end in disregard WTF is there to go
along with?
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blindpig Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-11 12:16 PM
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3. k&r
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patrice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-11 12:34 PM
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4. Work, a.k.a. LABOR, is disposable & dispensability is the highest goal of "free market" bullshit.
What better proof does anyone need that "free markets" are the economic equivalent of heroin.

There's nothing CONSERVATIVE about a system that attacks, destroys, and otherwise disposes of REAL VALUE (a.k.a. WORK, according to Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations).
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socialindependocrat Donating Member (379 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-11 12:41 PM
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5. The wealthy buying congress is NOT democracy!!
Let's get things back in line again.

Let's get a Democratic majority

and

do all the things us nice Democrats want to do.

NO MORE REACHING ACROSS THE AISLE!!!!
YOU HAD YOUR CHANCE - PRICKS!!!

SINCE YOU WON'T DO ANYTHING
YOU'VE GIVEN US REASON TO DO IT OURSELVES!!

IMHO - KMA
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