Wake up folks: nobody with power gives a fuck about you.

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69. Wait,

There were 30 lynchings in 1934, the first

full year of FDR's presidency. http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/shipp/lynchingyear.html

And interestingly, lynchings dropped dramatically under FDR.

...you're trying to justify failing to pass anti-lynching legislation by citing lynching statistics?

Here are more current statistics and the effects of the health care law:

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We still have over 30 million Americans who cannot see a doctor when they are sick. According to this Harvard study, adjusting for gender, race, smoking, weight, and just about everything else that you can think of, in any given year, the uninsured are 40% more likely to die than the insured are. That results in 44,789 additional deaths in America each year. All of which are avoidable.

This is more than twice the number of homicides in America.

It is more than ten times the number of deaths on 9/11. And it happens every year.

Do you think that we should solve this problem? I do.

And the Democratic Party does. Which is why we passed health care reform. And why we brought the wrath of lobbyists and their sewer money down on our heads in the last election – over $65 million by the Chamber of Commerce and Karl Rove’s “American Crossroads” alone.

I see one party taking on the special interests and enacting laws to keep Americans alive, and assure that you can see a doctor when you are sick. Like in every other industrialized country in the world.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/1/20/937697/-What-I-Didnt-Hear