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(5,610 posts)We are going to allow the OLIGARCHS to win this war that they have started?
TAKE TO THE STREET'S, it is our only hope.
leftyohiolib
(5,917 posts)get pepper-sprayed
midnight
(26,624 posts)Instead they create chaos.....
Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)Faygo Kid
(21,477 posts)He is obsessed with assuring the power of the 1/10 of 1 percent and destroying the middle class. Always has been.
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)And while we are at it, I would like to make a personal disclaimer.
I have posted a lot against the cuts to Social Security and Medicare.
I do not receive any compensation other than my Social Security and Medicare benefits that are in any way related to Social Security or Fix the Debt or any other organization interested in these issues.
And in my professional life, I never worked in a field related to Social Security or Medicare or any issues closely enough related to those issues to cause me to have a conflict of interest.
Peterson made allusions to "special interest groups" launching campaigns on this issue.
I belong to the Democratic Party. I do not even belong to AARP.
So, this is one senior speaking for herself. I would like to know who among those posting to DU are affiliated with any organization that lobbies or has a potential legislative impact on Social Security or Medicare.
Let's establish a fair playing field here.
There is one DUer who comes up with amazingly well documented posts in very short periods of time. I've done a lot of research in my life. This DUer's posts look professional, and the research he comes up with takes a lot of time. I've been suspicious this very sensible person who is so extremely pro-Obama and raises in response to any criticism of Obama a long list of positives with researched links might be a "special interest." Let's be honest about whether we are paid to post on DU.
I am not paid to post on DU. You can probably guess that from my long-winded, typo-ridden posts.
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)They need to pay their damn share of taxes. http://www.flipthedebt.org
Can you believe:
Since 2001, we've stacked up a whopping $1 trillion in debt from Tax Cuts for the 1%.1
Another $1.3 trillion is from wealthy corporations like GE, Verizon and Bank of America, which pay little or no taxes.2
This corporate tax dodging adds up to $2.3 trillion stolen from the US treasury, and keeps growing by $100 billion a year.3
The combined bill for all this? Way more than the $1.6 trillion in cuts that Congress is debating.
Triana
(22,666 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)Initech
(99,915 posts)We cannot allow them to get away with this! If this doesn't cause us to get off our asses and into the streets, what will?