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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThings I worry about more than the NSA:
Will my kids get jobs?
Will they and I be able to pay off their student loans?
Will the weather turn really, really ugly the next few years?
What is the sequester doing to people?
What is the sequester doing to the economy?
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)This is so far down the list of things that affect (hell, or even have an effect on) me.
Sure it's not a good thing, but like you said, I've bigger worries.
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)"no" to the first two, "yes" to the third and "terrible things" to the last two, do you think civil unrest will follow?
And if it does, do you think what the NSA is doing will be of no account?
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Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)Whisp
(24,096 posts)of destruction and suffering.
wtf, what the hell... sick
leftstreet
(36,108 posts)The peon classes are already suffering
Oh...you must be worried civil unrest will make the wealthy elite suffer
Whisp
(24,096 posts)around your ears.
the wealthy elite will not, but comfy armchair strategists and 'historians' will get a cruel surprise and a wake up call to what suffering really is.
This isn't a child's Mecano set where if you don't like it you just punch it down and start over
leftstreet
(36,108 posts)It's the comfy armchair strategists who aren't suffering
Jessy169
(602 posts)But I won't name them -- they're obvious -- and every one of them is significantly more potentially damaging to the economy -- to the world -- to LIFE as we know it, than the NSA collecting metadata on my cellphone calls and emails.
Auggie
(31,173 posts)will we be to halt the take-over of government by the 1%? Solve that one and the others go away.
HappyMe
(20,277 posts)I'm worried about the effects of the sequester. People still go to bed hungry every night. The weather is fucked, I'm afraid.
Catherina
(35,568 posts)all of those are related.
randome
(34,845 posts)NSA crap doesn't even come close to the importance of dealing with climate change.
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The same people that are bringing us NSA, are also bringing us climate change, and/or spear-heading denial of climate change.
Just different appendages of the same entity.
noamnety
(20,234 posts)Being able to bug and/or blackmail political opponents or corporate competitors or protesters affects the political and corporate landscape in ways that have major impact on each of those areas.
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)or argue that people focusing on one are ignoring the other.
They are deeply, intimately connected.
Why do plutocrats put a sweeping, Constitution-assaulting, spying infrastructure into place? To increase their own power and control, to facilitate their corporate predatory agenda, and to prevent investigation of their abuses by a free press and dissent by the citizens they are systematically exploiting, stripping of their rights, and impoverishing.
Caring about poverty, the environment, and the job market REQUIRES that we take a powerful stand against this government spying. This sort of government abuse enables every corporate outrage that is the CAUSE of the problems you are talking about.