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Toucano (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 12:55 AM Original message |
Has the War on Poverty become the War on the Poor? |
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RandomThoughts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 01:06 AM Response to Original message |
1. That actually is not far off. |
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midnight (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 01:06 AM Response to Original message |
2. With all the preaching about religion and the spill over into our |
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Toucano (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 01:42 AM Response to Reply #2 |
5. Right |
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Art_from_Ark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 01:13 AM Response to Original message |
3. Reagan was certainly an ass when it came to poor people |
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Toucano (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 01:48 AM Response to Reply #3 |
6. Does his dark shadow know no bounds? |
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Tsiyu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 01:28 AM Response to Original message |
4. They ARE like Zombies! |
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cutlassmama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 02:13 AM Response to Reply #4 |
7. they aren't ashamed because they have no empathy or conscious |
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Tsiyu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 10:11 AM Original message |
I know, definition of a sociopath, isn't it? |
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HEyHEY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 02:16 AM Response to Original message |
8. No, they are two different fronts |
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Toucano (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 02:42 AM Response to Reply #8 |
10. Good answer. n/t |
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Hydra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-15-10 12:44 AM Response to Reply #10 |
18. The poor(includes me) usually have to fight for ourselves |
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Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 02:18 AM Response to Original message |
9. Yes and Alan Simpson is leading the charge. |
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Taitertots (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 02:46 AM Response to Original message |
11. You can either falsely believe that the poor are inferior or cry yourself to sleep over the inequali... |
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Donnachaidh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 10:00 AM Response to Original message |
12. It's NOT *just fat white men* -- it's ALL the elites, and on both sides |
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glitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 10:11 AM Response to Original message |
13. As Michael Parenti said, these people see Indonesia and say why not here? |
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arbusto_baboso (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 10:12 AM Response to Original message |
14. "Become"? That happened back in 1981 and has been ramping-up ever since. |
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McCamy Taylor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 05:32 PM Response to Original message |
15. When Diebold took away the "one citizen one vote" rule, the poor lost what little clout they had. |
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Lorien (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 05:36 PM Response to Original message |
16. We hear about the "spoiled" unemployed, the "idle" homeless and the "lazy" |
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meow2u3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 05:41 PM Response to Original message |
17. Did Marie Antoinette say, "Let them eat cake"? |
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ibegurpard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-15-10 12:46 AM Response to Original message |
19. last line of your post is brilliant. |
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