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POAS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-18-08 04:47 PM
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Concentrate the wealth
That is what the Republican theology is about.

It is not about theocracy except as it benefits the concentration of wealth.

It is not about "free trade".

It is not about "fair competition".

It is not even about small government, except as getting government out of the way of wealth concentration.

Whenever you hear someone decry the alleged "socialist" agenda of the left or specifically about Obama remember that the opposite of "spreading the wealth" is "concentration of wealth" into a few hands.

Unrestrained capitalism is a game of survival of the fittest, greediest and least scrupulous. It is about destroying the competition and monopoly.

The only tool available to society to protect it from those that would create a world in which the only entitlement is the entitlement of wealth is a "government of the people, by the people and for the people"!

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rwenos Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-18-08 04:49 PM
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1. These are only Slogans
The real agendy is CORPORATE PROFITS. The Wall Street is just the "last shakedown" of the Bush era. It's about the MONEY. The rest is "collateral damage."
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whosinpower Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-18-08 05:38 PM
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7. Trickle down economics resulted in one thing
Not spreading the wealth.....rather, spreading the debt. Spread it far and wide and anywhere anyone was willing to "buy" it thinking there would be a profit or value sometime, somewhere, somehow, regardless of what really determines value - labour.
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FrenchieCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-18-08 04:50 PM
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2. yep....that is the opposite of spreading the Wealth!
Couldn't have that!
It must be concentrated instead. Asshole Republicans!
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alsame Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-18-08 04:51 PM
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3. Our money has always been stolen by those at the top, not those
at the bottom. I don't know why some people can't see this - they scream about welfare, Medicaid, etc but don't seem to mind what the robber barons do.
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POAS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-18-08 05:06 PM
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5. Can't tell you how many times
I've been left to shake my head in disbelief at remarks about, as an example, "welfare Queens".

It is an appeal that has worked forever, the appeal to fear and the worst of our instincts. It is beyond reason because it is that inbred cave man in all of us going back to beyond the creation of what we consider "civilization".
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thoughtcrime1984 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-18-08 04:52 PM
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4. They spout euphemisms that are swallowed whole by the wholly gullible
Edited on Sat Oct-18-08 05:00 PM by Obama_for_our_future
and the holy gullible.
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POAS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-18-08 05:14 PM
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6. Wholly and holy gullible...I like it, may I borrow it?
I'll return it when I'm done but probably not until after November 4th.
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