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Karmadillo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-13-11 05:42 PM Original message |
Why does Obama support trade agreements that will cost thousands of Americans their jobs? |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-13-11 05:46 PM Response to Original message |
1. I wouldn't get bogged down in the details of policy.. |
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90-percent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-13-11 05:50 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Lady Ga Ga maybe not so much |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-13-11 05:56 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. Yeah, but in terms of "how it will effect your life" celebrity gossip is pretty worthless in general |
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90-percent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 07:17 AM Response to Reply #5 |
18. Agree |
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indepat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-13-11 07:19 PM Response to Reply #1 |
14. Did you hear that Kim is said to have a nice bum? |
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awoke_in_2003 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-13-11 09:32 PM Response to Reply #14 |
17. well, there is that. nt |
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woo me with science (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 10:10 AM Response to Reply #1 |
21. Nope, Obama told us politicians are paid to do that. |
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nashville_brook (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 10:44 AM Response to Reply #1 |
25. :) heh heh. |
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udbcrzy2 (572 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-13-11 05:49 PM Response to Original message |
2. Why would any Democrat support it? n/t |
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pampango (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 11:31 AM Response to Reply #2 |
35. For the same reason that liberals in Canada and Europe support it. |
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Divernan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 01:19 PM Response to Reply #35 |
44. Good spin! You should write for the White House press office. |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 01:20 PM Response to Reply #44 |
45. Source: CATO/ Progressive Policy Institute ("PPI"). nt |
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pampango (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 02:02 PM Response to Reply #44 |
48. Here are the import/export numbers for the US, Canada, Germany and Sweden. |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 01:25 PM Response to Reply #35 |
46. Greeks haven't been protesting for "free trade" this summer |
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Capn Sunshine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 02:33 PM Response to Reply #2 |
52. for one thing, Detroit needs the handle. For another this would create UNION jobs |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 05:16 PM Response to Reply #52 |
53. What the heck does "Detroit needs the handle" mean? |
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Brickbat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-13-11 05:51 PM Response to Original message |
4. Chill the fuck out! |
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Motown_Johnny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 10:11 AM Response to Reply #4 |
23. Have these trade agreements cost you or a loved one their job? |
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Brickbat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 10:49 AM Response to Reply #23 |
26. Oh, I was just quoting everyone's favorite Pundit Kitchen graphic. I am very familiar with what |
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Motown_Johnny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 10:50 AM Response to Reply #26 |
27. my apologies then, but that sarcasm emote has a purpose |
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Brickbat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 11:05 AM Response to Reply #27 |
31. No problem. |
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southerncrone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-13-11 05:58 PM Response to Original message |
6. Good thing I like peas. |
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PufPuf23 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-13-11 05:59 PM Response to Original message |
7. POTUS Obama supports neo-liberal economic and foreign policy |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-13-11 06:00 PM Response to Original message |
8. This is why we should consider making the support of Labor our #1 issue. |
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PoiBoy (842 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-13-11 06:14 PM Response to Reply #8 |
11. K&R...!!! |
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Waiting For Everyman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-13-11 06:04 PM Response to Original message |
9. He's a neo-lib corpo-Dem, and his chief of staff is Bill Daley. |
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Shagbark Hickory (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-13-11 06:08 PM Response to Original message |
10. Because he's a rightwinger? |
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amborin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-13-11 06:59 PM Response to Reply #10 |
12. +1 pushing an intensified neo-liberal agenda |
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indepat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-13-11 07:24 PM Response to Reply #10 |
15. More untaxed (by USA) profits for corporations who move jobs out of the country? |
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woo me with science (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 10:11 AM Response to Reply #10 |
22. Gah! |
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leftstreet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-13-11 07:02 PM Response to Original message |
13. He wants us all unemployed so we'll have time to GOTV? |
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Brickbat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-13-11 07:25 PM Response to Reply #13 |
16. Hee, I lol'd. |
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IDemo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 07:33 AM Response to Original message |
19. Chicago School economics |
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Karmadillo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 10:08 AM Response to Reply #19 |
20. Wow. "I love the market." At least for the serfs. When it hurts the banksters, I have to fix it. |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 02:24 PM Response to Reply #19 |
51. Never elect anyone who taught at the University of Chicago. |
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TheKentuckian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 10:17 AM Response to Original message |
24. Same reason a TeaPubliKlan might; either being stupid, evil, or delusional. |
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senseandsensibility (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 11:06 AM Response to Reply #24 |
32. Yeah, I'm sick of asking why, too. |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 10:53 AM Response to Original message |
28. Because voters like being able to buy cheap shirts and sneakers |
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BuelahWitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 11:54 AM Response to Reply #28 |
38. Can't buy jack shit when you don't have a job |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 12:00 PM Response to Reply #38 |
40. Right, but 90% of us do, and voters are often pretty selfish (nt) |
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Bryn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 11:02 AM Response to Original message |
29. and then he turns around and says it's not the government's job to create jobs |
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LWolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 11:04 AM Response to Original message |
30. Because he is a neoliberal. nt |
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grahamhgreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 11:08 AM Response to Original message |
33. When they show u who they are, believe them - Randi Rhodes |
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Octafish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 11:10 AM Response to Original message |
34. Same reason he won't raise taxes on the rich or stop welfare for Wall Street. |
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amborin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 11:37 AM Response to Reply #34 |
37. exactly....Obama meets regularly.... |
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Obamanaut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 11:37 AM Response to Original message |
36. The fewer jobs there are, the greater the pool of potential enlistees for the |
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sendero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 11:55 AM Response to Original message |
39. Because he doesn't. |
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QC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 12:06 PM Response to Original message |
41. He does it because it's who he is. |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 12:09 PM Response to Original message |
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sarcasmo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 12:41 PM Response to Original message |
43. Because corporations tell the figure head in chief what to do. |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 01:32 PM Response to Original message |
47. I think he is genuinely a neo-liberal. nt |
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cantbeserious (270 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 02:20 PM Response to Original message |
49. Because Obama Is Beholden To "Mr. Global" As Catherine Austin Fitts Phrases Things |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 02:24 PM Response to Original message |
50. because he does what his corporate masters tell him to do. |
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