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Priorities USA Action: "Stick" (Original Post) cal04 Oct 2012 OP
Great ad! Jim__ Oct 2012 #1
. littlemissmartypants Oct 2012 #2
Why does Obama want to take away their toys and bikes? jberryhill Oct 2012 #3
RMONEY, NOT BARACK, WANTS TO TAKE AWAY ED INVESTMENTS, WHY? drynberg Oct 2012 #4

littlemissmartypants

(22,691 posts)
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Mon Oct 8, 2012, 10:15 AM
Oct 2012

"The Invention of Capitalism" by Michael Perelman, who essentially lays out how capitalism at its roots has defined poor people as brutish animals that needed poverty and the threat of starvation to keep them from indulging their "natural" inclination toward sloth and indolence.

“…everyone but an idiot knows that the lower classes must be kept poor, or they will never be industrious.”

—Arthur Young; 1771

 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
3. Why does Obama want to take away their toys and bikes?
Mon Oct 8, 2012, 11:24 AM
Oct 2012

Hmm? The ad leaves that crucial question unanswered.

</idiot>

drynberg

(1,648 posts)
4. RMONEY, NOT BARACK, WANTS TO TAKE AWAY ED INVESTMENTS, WHY?
Mon Oct 8, 2012, 02:11 PM
Oct 2012

So his 1% can get a quarter of a million dollars, frig the future says Willard and Lyin' Ryan. Frig them says the 47% and lots of their sane friends who care about tomorrow and America's future. Pretty simple really...read again if I somehow lost ya.

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