Five Great American Hypocrisies

[HomerRamone]

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/paul-buchheit/64270/five-great-american-hypocrisies

1. Corporations Hoarding $2 Trillion in Profits, Asking Taxpayers to Pay Their Employees' Wages

2. Mourning American Lives, But Not Foreign Lives

3. Caring About Unborn Children, But Not Living Children

4. Demanding Self-Reliance of People Who Can't Find a Living-Wage Job

5. Turning Away People Who Were Displaced by Our "Free Trade" Pacts

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Banks get bailouts, but homeowners and students can't declare bankruptcy. Drug companies increase prices by 5,000%, but Medicare is not allowed to negotiate for lower drug prices. Charter schools are public when the money is being passed out, but private when we want to look at their books.

The list goes on and on.

[hifiguy]

1. Two trillion may be a conservative figure.

Very conservative.

And there are perfectly plausible estimates that the ultra-rich have more than $30 trillion - yes you read that correctly - THIRTY TRILLION DOLLARS - stashed in offshore financial black holes. http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/22/us-offshore-wealth-idUSBRE86L03U20120722

Repatriate every last dime of the money, but not before publicly hanging the hoarders.

[yeoman6987]

3. That makes me sick

We could pay off the entire debt with that.....ok so we can't pay off the Entire debt because it's bad so leave a manageable number towards debt but pay off the rest. What is left over could cement social security forever. Give 1 trillion to teamsters to restore earned pension. So much could be done with that money. Makes me sick!

[orpupilofnature57]

5. Makes them Rich .

[orpupilofnature57]

4. + 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

And there Misnomers, Hypocrisy is when you say one thing and do the opposite and only after your exposed do you acknowledge, what you've done, until the next time you need " Liquid Logic "

[Maedhros]

2. The Sixth: helping craft the TPP, but calling one's self "Progressive." [n/t]

[hifiguy]

6. Oh, yeah.

People with attention spans longer than canaries' haven't forgotten that.

[w0nderer]

7. and Kick for exposure R too n/t

[Rex]

8. Wall Street hordes profits and begs for tax breaks.

FUCK. THEM.