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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"When you went to work... everyone else on the block was doing the same thing"
There was a line about Romney's ideal America where, apparently, "when you went to work in the morning, everyone else was doing the same thing."
Yes they were, Mitt... They were all looking out their windows saying, "There goes that asshole Mitt Romney, off to work."
Because for most people, work involves actually doing jobs, instead of firing people who are doing them, for the sole purpose of enriching yourself at their expense.
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"When you went to work... everyone else on the block was doing the same thing" (Original Post)
jberryhill
Sep 2012
OP
yes, because there were jobs for all those people. unfortunately, junk bond traders and
HiPointDem
Sep 2012
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Freddie
(9,825 posts)1. This is a subtle message in RW-speak
About all those lazy people who are looking for a government handout sitting on their cans at home all day. Welfare queens. Like Obama wants the whole country to be. And they might have a different complexion than you.
eShirl
(19,258 posts)2. ding ding ding
"when you went to work... everyone else was white" because we all know white people never get disabled or lose their jobs in Beaver Cleaver world
HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)3. yes, because there were jobs for all those people. unfortunately, junk bond traders and
private equity firms asset-stripped those companies and shipped the jobs overseas.