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Showing Original Post only (View all)Vote to cut entitlements? Then I pledge $100 to primary you in the next election. [View all]
That's the message I'm sending to my elected representatives.
If they vote to touch entitlements, then I'll contribute to replace them with another Democratic candidate who actually embraces Democratic principles. They're entitlements because we paid for them in full, and we're entitled to them, the way we're entitled to the money in our bank accounts.
Shared sacrifice, my ass. The wealthiest 5% of Americans got a $1 trillion tax gift break over the last ten years - let them pay it back, with interest, before we go after the old, the poor, and the sick.
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Vote to cut entitlements? Then I pledge $100 to primary you in the next election. [View all]
MannyGoldstein
Dec 2012
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We can always count on you and Brentspeak for the dissension. Trying to stir the pot?
Pisces
Dec 2012
#5
Maintenance of the spirit which sees such things as important. Maybe reminding people why
jtuck004
Dec 2012
#26
"Shared sacrifice, my ass." Exactly. Half of the country has been sharing for years...
jtuck004
Dec 2012
#10
As far as I can tell, it's just Dick Durbin mentioning means-testing for Medicare.
SunSeeker
Dec 2012
#12
Thank u for saying WHAT an entitlement is and WHY it is an entitlement. Words have meaning and some
DRoseDARs
Dec 2012
#28
More than two-thirds of Americans are with me on this, including most Republicans
MannyGoldstein
Dec 2012
#40