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WingDinger

(3,690 posts)
Thu Feb 9, 2012, 01:19 PM Feb 2012

Make it apply to the Politicians as well!

This is a flawed tactic to deal with things like cutting off welfare, or any other entitlement from recreational, or other drug users.

We are counting on their massive EGO's to do the heavy lifting. Visiting hate, or deprivation on others, to protest visiting it on those that would be harmed, legitimizes the tactic. It must be slammed. Ridiculed. Those that suggest it, must be eliminated. Then, and only then, will the "kill the poor" tactic be ended.

This also legitimizes things like the rethugs calling for legislators being limited to our healthcare.

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Make it apply to the Politicians as well! (Original Post) WingDinger Feb 2012 OP
Lots of their policies should apply to them. How about the cutting of benefits and pensions? NC_Nurse Feb 2012 #1
So they can end ours? And claim it is even steven? WingDinger Feb 2012 #2
Newsflash: They already are. NC_Nurse Feb 2012 #3

NC_Nurse

(11,646 posts)
1. Lots of their policies should apply to them. How about the cutting of benefits and pensions?
Thu Feb 9, 2012, 01:25 PM
Feb 2012

Why don't they have to be a congressman for 20-30 years before they qualify for their outrageous pensions? How about they pay for their own healthcare? ditch the expense accounts. There are plenty of ways they could "sacrifice" like they always say we should. And they should have to piss in a cup before every vote.

Assholes.

 

WingDinger

(3,690 posts)
2. So they can end ours? And claim it is even steven?
Thu Feb 9, 2012, 01:28 PM
Feb 2012

Youll have rich fools, like Romney, or Bloomberg, who wouldnt miss them, calling for austerity for the rest of us, in equal measure.


“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.”
― Anatole France

This quote will be their soapbox.

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