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HughBeaumont

(24,461 posts)
17. And how SAD is it that you have to go to the "fringe left" . . .
Tue Jun 25, 2013, 05:30 AM
Jun 2013

. . . for what should be normal Democratic values?

This is what happens when nearly every politician no matter what party, every business leader, every person who has the power to make a difference in this country . . . pays homage to the most counterproductive and scorched-earth brand of economics unwillingly thrusted on the American people. Since 1981, we've been paying the price of Reaganomics; a loser amalgam of Ayn Rand selfishness, free movement of capital and labor, reverse-Robin Hood wealth transfer, labor-rights squashing and social Darwinism.

Like all scam-based religions, it relies on the people at the top of the pyramid doing the thinking for the useful idiots at the bottom that assembled it.

There was a sign recently at another thread that said "Capitalism Equals Freedom". Whoever told that guy such a lie isn't his friend. A cab driver in France is freer than any non-multi-millionaire American citizen will ever be.

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