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2. Tighten your belt!
Sat Apr 27, 2013, 09:51 AM
Apr 2013

Toe the line!

Pinch those pennies!

Cut down and back!

We have important and crucial things to do America #2. There are wealthy people that we must make wealthier. That brood of defense contracting chicks have their massive maws open again for another, regular and copious feeding. There are corporations to subsidize, because, well, you just can't sit on enough profit these days.

Now, let's rip the wheels off the meals and scrape some more meat off of our own bones for those who insist, due to entitled and sacred privileges, that they need even more than more, ad infinitum. Can't we become even more creative in taking away what the poor and old and weak are holding back and being so needy about? If we can pull off austerity by calling it a sequester, we can do anything. America! Yeah!

That's the way to run a society! Now I am off to have my body harvested so that somebody can profit in order to make my contribution to this Great Society! I could fetch up to $250,000 on the open market, don't ya' know.

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2 people, recking country economies and millions of RKP5637 Apr 2013 #1
It's the RW paradox don't you know... tex-wyo-dem Apr 2013 #20
Yep, truly a mix of denial, rationalization and delusions. No RKP5637 Apr 2013 #22
Tighten your belt! Newest Reality Apr 2013 #2
I can't help but consider their self-righteousness and refusal to admit the error Snarkoleptic Apr 2013 #3
1,065,794 homeless children enrolled in America’s preschools, kindergarten and grades 1 to 12 midnight Apr 2013 #7
They have nothing else, so they will stick with the well-paid bullshit. nt bemildred Apr 2013 #4
As you said... Snarkoleptic Apr 2013 #5
that's always why I give Rampton and Stauber books to my closest friends--not to "turn" them on any MisterP Apr 2013 #6
There's a lot of money behind that study and the attempts to defend it. drm604 Apr 2013 #8
Their 'defense' here: elleng Apr 2013 #9
They need to withdraw their paper from American Economic Review salib Apr 2013 #10
They should just come clean and admit it - Austerity is a religion n2doc Apr 2013 #11
Greed is the religion and austerity is an article of faith. IMHO Snarkoleptic Apr 2013 #12
. blkmusclmachine Apr 2013 #13
Stupidity, Cupidity,Incompetence and Arrogance PATRICK Apr 2013 #14
Low Moral Intelligence - good one! LMI? So Mr Cheney, you have an LMI of -16, Do you have byeya Apr 2013 #16
Seems like you were channeling Hunter S. Thompson there. Nice! Snarkoleptic Apr 2013 #17
Caught with their pants down: "Oh no, our pants are up; we have tenure" and byeya Apr 2013 #15
If any of us wrote a term paper wilt the stilt Apr 2013 #18
Yep, I never would have made it out of my 2 semesters in statistical analysis. n/t RKP5637 Apr 2013 #21
Just as predicted. AverageJoe90 Apr 2013 #19
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