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I am employed by an inner city hospital Emergency Department where urban blight, poverty and drug abuse is rampant. This already happening! Folks who have little or no access to primary care are using the ER as their doctor's appointment. Combine that with other urban center woes (lots of gun and knife violence, untreated substance abuse and untreated chronic illness PLUS AIDS, TB, MRSA and Hep C. What the f*ck is Romney's problem? Sigh - if that is the solution - its already being used and its NOT WORKING! Folks deserve much more than this!
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He's ignorant, is the problem, as is the considerable possibility that he has a strong sociopathic streak. He grew up privileged and has no idea how the rest of the world--or even the non-filthy-rich majority of his own culture--lives, quite possibly because he doesn't care what happens to them as long as he becomes more and more privileged.
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The other day I was getting gas at the store,while I was paying for it I got ina convo with some folks about the election.The thing I ge about Romney is corp greed,plan and simple and more of it if he is elected.But the romney side is saying Obama has riased the deficite to many times what Bush did,My anser was it was going to take money to clear up the mess Bush made and lots of it..Fact is I live in a repuplican state wuch use to be a big democrat state.Since that happened we have lost jobs anmd contrats to bring in jobs a ten fold,our education has had big set backs,medical services to the needy as well as rehab serveices is at a half stance at best,it will only get worse if we change boats in the midle of the river both for my state and country.I feel a great fear for whats to be had if Romney wins.I will hold my corse for as stronger economy,health system as well as educational system as I firmly still beleave in Obamas reason and corse to follow.Stand firm in the next election for us all.
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http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/r...-politics.html
I think he is insulting a vast majority of people who Do understand the math.
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I was watching the local news this am. The story was about folks who voted Obama in 2008 and are considering voting Romney this time around. One of the guys interviewed said: Romney has business experience and knows how to make money. We need our government to start making money.
So how many folks out there actually think the government is supposed to make money like business makes money?
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Americans seem to have forgotten, despite our mouthing words to the contrary, that there's more to life than making money and that turning a profit *isn't* what governments are for. Cheers Aj
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Government is here to do for it's citizens what it's citizens can't do for themselves. It isn't a business.
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Romney looks at the Presidency seat as a business.. for himself and his cronies.and if your going to go for the president of the Unites States, it would be wise not to insult our foreign friends. |
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The PA voter suppression law has been tossed by the PASC. One does not need a photo ID to vote in this years election. Do not fall for the intimidation tactics of the far right, and vote!
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Actually it kinda fucked what they did. The law is not thrown out. It will not go into effect until the next election cycle. In this coming election next month, you can/will still be asked for a valid ID card, however they cannot refuse to give you a regular ballot to vote with and your vote will be counted. You should not receive a provisional ballot. The state can also continue with it's voter education campaigns about what is needed for voter identification in order to vote.. It's going to confuse the hell out of folks....
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In my life so many, so many ideological changes can be marked by the Reagan administration. Because of that administration, many of the useful functions of government were dismantled or neglected into ruin. People do not see what government does for them because it doesn't DO much for them. They have come to believe that living in the richest third world country on the planet is normal. Especially in California.
Government is ineffectual and expensive and full of people talking shit that has nothing to do with our real lives. It's amazing that so many of the poor and working poor actually do vote. Who is talking about gun violence? Tell me what issue has a greater impact on the lives of poor Californians, for example? How can we not be talking A LOT more about all the people who have lost their houses to foreclosure? Because it involves a criticism of Wall Street? Because it illustrates a massive failure of government? But Americans aren't demanding they do that. We had the Occupy Movement, but if you look at this election, it's as if that hadn't even happened? With the Citizens United decision, is there any question who owns government and that it's not the people? I admit that education has failed to create an educated electorate. I just taught the Declaration of Independence to juniors and seniors in high school. All of them claimed to have never heard it before. Whatever causes they attribute it to, people know that government rarely represents their interests. They know that the Bush-Gore election was stolen. People have to work to remember why we should believe in a positive role for government. There was an article in Vanity Fair this year that talked about how many young people got into government and journalism because of The West Wing. I remember watching it and taking it in like a starved person. We so wanted to believe that government really worked like that. From that Vanity Fair article: Quote:
Under Nixon, no one questioned that there was a role for regulation. That so many people continue to blame big government for their woes is not just because people like Carl Rove succeeded brilliantly. It is a result of the apparent early success of Reagan economics, which Clinton did nothing to revise. Why would he? Silicon Valley was making a lot of people rich. But now these policies have led to their inevitable conclusion. That the profits made by the working people of the U.S. (and other countries) go hidden and untaxed in offshore accounts while we take on the burden of debt created through, among other things, tax breaks given to these same corporations . . . that restricting corporate contributions to campaigns is a considered a restriction on free speech, that our highest court decided that . . . while people like Mitt Romney call us lazy for not succeeding as he did (by, ironically, dismantling and destroying the businesses that actually created wealth) . . . these elephants in the living room of our democracy make it hard to believe anything other than that government has handed its power over to the market. Government is going to have to stand up to Wall Street and corporate interests and show that it really is in charge before people will be able to to see it for what it could be, for what it should be, the force by which we direct our collective lives. It is not that now. There is no consent of the governed when the ones making the decisions that most affect our lives are not elected by the people. We don't even know their names. ========================== On offshore accounts (from Forbes): Quote:
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Anyone watching the 1st debate tonight?
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*raising my head*..........I be watchin
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I'm betting (no money) that Mitt will blow it on the second question. I'm also betting (no money) his zingers will fall flat.
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I know this is a little big, but ...
it's so frecking funny!!!!
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