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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-23-04 07:24 PM
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What can we do?
War, outsourcing, devaluation of workers, rabidly increasing corporate greed - to the likes Reagan would have only wet dreamed about.

What's the point of whining, folks? We do nothing more than whine and vote in silly internet polls. Send some internet petitions and letters to our bought'n'paid-for officials who won't read the initiatives and then thank you for essentially wasting their time.

The pattern has been increasing for the last 24 years, with no 8 year miracle gap inbetween 1992 and 2000.

I don't even know why I'm voting, it's clear that only those with money make the rules. Not the people as a whole. We are not a society. And none of us wants to restore order, we're just sitting back and caressing our balls in communal e-catharsis while they bulldozer our livelihoods to shreds and pocket the "savings". x(

I am on the verge of simply giving up. Just keep struggling in this asinine joke of a world until my only chance at employment when my job is cut (they're constricting work even though I'm damn capable of doing far more for the underpaid salary I get and have been doing more and wanting to do more while showing I can do more) is some dipshit retail job which I know I'll never get because of those rubbish computer profiling tests that can't tell the difference between a person and how the person answers the silly questions. We get hired by you. You tell us what to do. If we don't do it or do it wrong we get fired. What is the problem with this?

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NMDemDist2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-23-04 07:25 PM
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1. Toad, don't give up, the US has gone thru this several times before
Edited on Wed Jun-23-04 07:26 PM by AZDemDist6
and the people have always held their own. Just for giggles read about the state of the Union around each turn of the century and you'll see we are just in a usual political cycle

no worries mate, keep up the good fight :D
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Hoping4Change Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-23-04 07:31 PM
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2. I know this sounds feeble but have you seen The Corporation?
Edited on Wed Jun-23-04 07:33 PM by Hoping4Change
It is actually very inspirational. It tells how people in several countries with literally NO POWER got together and effected incredible changes. It's really worth seeing.
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2Design Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-23-04 07:34 PM
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3. is this at blockbuster...can it be rented...
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Hoping4Change Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-23-04 07:46 PM
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4. Not yet on dvd. Booked in 50 US cities, to see where click
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