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Austerity Summed Up In A Pic (Original Post) kpete Aug 2015 OP
K and R--and thanks riversedge Aug 2015 #1
Yep. k&R Borchkins Aug 2015 #2
They weren't mistakes. n/t jtuck004 Aug 2015 #3
Correct. Brickbat Aug 2015 #4
yep kpete Aug 2015 #5
I believe that absolutely. arikara Aug 2015 #27
+1 tecelote Sep 2015 #39
Well, imthevicar Aug 2015 #6
Yep. LiberalArkie Aug 2015 #9
KnR. nt tblue37 Aug 2015 #7
Excellent! mckara Aug 2015 #8
yes, that's exactly what we're talking about mountain grammy Aug 2015 #10
punishing the 99% for the greedy actions of the 1% nt antigop Aug 2015 #11
Message auto-removed Name removed Aug 2015 #12
The right wing has always loved and protected their racists, nazis, bigots, and slave owners fasttense Aug 2015 #14
Yup. SoapBox Aug 2015 #13
I would hardly categorize what the rich are doing as... Oilwellian Aug 2015 #15
Ding! Ding! Ding! Raster Aug 2015 #16
PM Penny Pritzker Octafish Aug 2015 #17
And Convincing The Middle Class That The Poor Are To Blame For Everything. Ikonoklast Aug 2015 #18
+1, Far too little said about this. harun Aug 2015 #23
What were those mistakes? oberliner Aug 2015 #19
Like deliberately encouraging people to put down information on loan applications that is JDPriestly Aug 2015 #22
Mistakes implies that they were accidental oberliner Aug 2015 #24
"Mistakes" is a euphemism in this case so as not to step on the toes of deliberate and intentional JDPriestly Aug 2015 #25
Gotcha oberliner Aug 2015 #30
Would repealing New Deal regulations leading to a multi-trillion-plus bailout count? Octafish Aug 2015 #32
This is the status quo that some are fighting so hard to keep. They use "pragmatism" rhett o rick Aug 2015 #20
Spot on. Rex Aug 2015 #29
K&R. JDPriestly Aug 2015 #21
+ 1,000,000 cantbeserious Aug 2015 #26
According to some Americans, if they have a frig in the house then they need to STFU and sitdown. Rex Aug 2015 #28
Can't we agree on this? K&R! This post deserves hundreds of recommendations! Enthusiast Aug 2015 #31
Punishing the poor because the billionaires can and do. Dont call me Shirley Aug 2015 #33
Recommended. The poor are being used as political fodder by the political hacks AikidoSoul Aug 2015 #34
This is essentially how they run the global economy. Shamful shit. nt ion_theory Aug 2015 #35
This picture is truly profound. When you think of the hope these little girls PatrickforO Aug 2015 #36
Kick and R BeanMusical Aug 2015 #37
...---... Alkene Aug 2015 #38
Those little girls Iwillnevergiveup Sep 2015 #40
Kicked and recommended. Uncle Joe Sep 2015 #41
The super-wealthy seem not to see us humans, but more like GeoWilliam750 Sep 2015 #42

Response to kpete (Original post)

 

fasttense

(17,301 posts)
14. The right wing has always loved and protected their racists, nazis, bigots, and slave owners
Mon Aug 31, 2015, 10:31 AM
Aug 2015

So, the results in Ukraine are what RepubliCONS wanted.

Oilwellian

(12,647 posts)
15. I would hardly categorize what the rich are doing as...
Mon Aug 31, 2015, 10:42 AM
Aug 2015

a mistake. I would have instead used the word "greed."

Ikonoklast

(23,973 posts)
18. And Convincing The Middle Class That The Poor Are To Blame For Everything.
Mon Aug 31, 2015, 10:54 AM
Aug 2015

Mis-directing the fault of just who is doing the f*****g to a degree not seen on this planet before.

JDPriestly

(57,936 posts)
22. Like deliberately encouraging people to put down information on loan applications that is
Mon Aug 31, 2015, 01:54 PM
Aug 2015

not really accurate, like that someone who has a good income lives in their household, like issuing a lot of adjustable mortgages that are very risky because wages are not rising and then selling derivatives on them (gambling as to which of them and how many homebuyers will default on those mortgages), like changing algorithms used by your investment company, bank or mortgage company so that you increase the risk and thus your risk of failure.

Like selling companies in ways that use your pension funds to leverage the buyers buy-out of your company so that YOU can retire in what you think will be ease, no matter what happens to your employees and the pension funds you promised them.

Like moving your production to a country that pays wages that are much lower than anyone could even subsist on in this country -- a couple of dollars a day when those two or so dollars here could not even buy one gallon of milk, selling the products that the people working for a couple of dollars a day produce here in this company at prices marked up at least 100% (in spite of shipping costs) and by setting up phony companies in various countries taking the very generous profits so as to avoid having to pay US taxes. That is, taking American working people for all they are worth in every possible way you can.

There are many other such techniques.

Basically, screwing America and Americans while proclaiming yourself far and wide to be an American patriot.

Oh, and there is a special category for people who don't bother to check the immigration status of people they hire to clean their houses, take care of their children, work in their factories, sweep their floors, wash their windows, etc. and then support Donald Trump because he is going to deport all the "illegal" immigrants. Special ring in Hell for those folks.

 

oberliner

(58,724 posts)
24. Mistakes implies that they were accidental
Mon Aug 31, 2015, 02:47 PM
Aug 2015

What you describe are deliberate and intentional policies.

JDPriestly

(57,936 posts)
25. "Mistakes" is a euphemism in this case so as not to step on the toes of deliberate and intentional
Mon Aug 31, 2015, 03:05 PM
Aug 2015

acts that should be prosecuted as criminal.

Octafish

(55,745 posts)
32. Would repealing New Deal regulations leading to a multi-trillion-plus bailout count?
Mon Aug 31, 2015, 04:05 PM
Aug 2015

Although for its proponents, things turned out all right. Phil Gramm and Bill Clinton today specialize in "Wealth Management" at UBS:

http://financialservicesinc.ubs.com/revitalizingamerica/SenatorPhilGramm.html

Ah, it must be gratifying to see such Buy Partisanship rewarded.

 

rhett o rick

(55,981 posts)
20. This is the status quo that some are fighting so hard to keep. They use "pragmatism"
Mon Aug 31, 2015, 01:08 PM
Aug 2015

as their justification.

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
28. According to some Americans, if they have a frig in the house then they need to STFU and sitdown.
Mon Aug 31, 2015, 03:14 PM
Aug 2015

Some would thrash the poor for being poor and praise the rich for being rich all with the inability to tell the difference between sacrifice and vanity.

Enthusiast

(50,983 posts)
31. Can't we agree on this? K&R! This post deserves hundreds of recommendations!
Mon Aug 31, 2015, 04:00 PM
Aug 2015

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AikidoSoul

(2,150 posts)
34. Recommended. The poor are being used as political fodder by the political hacks
Mon Aug 31, 2015, 07:46 PM
Aug 2015

who are so skilled at getting approximately half the country to vote against their own self interests. I'm sickened by the huge number of racist, and idiotic emails circulating that make it look like the poor and people of color are immoral junkies.

I just got an email a couple of minutes ago from someone who is normally a smart, reasonable guy. But it's a waste of my time to try to get him to see that he's cirulating propaganada. There's nothing that extricates him from his deep racism which seems to be big part in this part of the country. It runs very, very deep.

The email was entitled "Who's You're Daddy?" and was supposedly interviews with several black women who couldn't be sure who their children's fathers are....

At the end of the email it said:

"These are the people who will be the beneficiaries of redistributed wealth."

PatrickforO

(14,570 posts)
36. This picture is truly profound. When you think of the hope these little girls
Mon Aug 31, 2015, 09:13 PM
Aug 2015

SHOULD have for a good future, as opposed to what they DO have, it makes you almost cry. At least it does me.

These little girls ought to be worrying about what to wear for school instead of worrying that they don't have anything to wear.

They should be thinking about their schoolwork instead of wondering if they will have anything to eat tomorrow.

Well, it's profound, and little girls like this are a big part of the reason I'm supporting Bernie. Because he has proven he genuinely cares about them.

GeoWilliam750

(2,522 posts)
42. The super-wealthy seem not to see us humans, but more like
Tue Sep 1, 2015, 08:27 AM
Sep 2015

"If God had not meant them to be sheared, he would not have made them sheep"

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