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rucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-25-10 10:20 PM Original message |
We need to make the case that poverty is a bigger threat to Americans than terrorism. |
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Taitertots (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-25-10 10:27 PM Response to Original message |
1. Has preventable disease killed more people than terrorism this year yet? |
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anonymous171 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-25-10 10:30 PM Response to Original message |
2. Let's declare another war on poverty and draft young unemployed Americans to fight it |
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CountAllVotes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-25-10 10:32 PM Response to Original message |
3. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction |
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Marr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-25-10 10:33 PM Response to Original message |
4. I agree with you on decreasing the bloated defense budget, and I don't think it'd be a hard sell... |
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liberal N proud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-25-10 10:41 PM Response to Original message |
5. As long as people have the Television in their living rooms... |
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anonymous171 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-25-10 10:43 PM Response to Reply #5 |
8. The goal is not to make people care. The goal is to get people excited |
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vincna (282 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-25-10 10:42 PM Response to Original message |
6. If you don't think terrorism is a major threat,... |
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undeterred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-25-10 10:45 PM Response to Reply #6 |
10. The right wing is wrong. |
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anonymous171 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-25-10 10:46 PM Response to Reply #6 |
11. You know how he could make the country more secure AND cut military spending? |
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Ozymanithrax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-25-10 10:43 PM Response to Original message |
7. Lyndon B. Johnson is dead.... |
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anonymous171 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-25-10 10:50 PM Response to Reply #7 |
12. No one "planted" LBJ. He was found crying in his plane's bathroom right after JFK was shot |
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undeterred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-25-10 10:44 PM Response to Original message |
9. You notice Obama talks about the middle class but never about poverty. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 01:45 PM Response to Reply #9 |
21. Yep. Most of them do, maybe to maintain the fiction that we are all middle class |
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woo me with science (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-25-10 11:11 PM Response to Original message |
13. Not necessary to pit them against each other. |
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anonymous171 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-25-10 11:13 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. You cannot have both guns AND butter. You must choose nt |
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woo me with science (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 10:01 AM Response to Reply #14 |
17. Never argue that terrorism is of low importance. |
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raccoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 01:58 PM Response to Reply #14 |
23. Guess who gets to be the choosers? Hint: not us. nt |
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rucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 09:02 AM Response to Reply #13 |
16. We'll have to entertain a spending freeze. |
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woo me with science (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 10:04 AM Response to Reply #16 |
19. Yes, the proper framing is critical. |
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Karmadillo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-25-10 11:16 PM Response to Original message |
15. Maybe we should elect a Community Organizer to the Presidency to lead the fight on poverty. |
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rucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 01:41 PM Response to Reply #15 |
20. heh |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 10:02 AM Response to Original message |
18. K&R! |
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Doctor_J (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 01:47 PM Response to Original message |
22. We have no microphone to make that case, or any other |
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