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#1745022 - 06/11/12 12:37 PM
Re: Top U.S. Companies Pay No Taxes
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So you have a choice come November.. Freedom and equality for the Few??? Or freedom and equality for All?????
Okay - so what does that look like on my ballot, in your estimation. Which candidate is choice A and which is B, pray-tell?
Edited by WeedWitch420.1 (06/11/12 12:39 PM) Edit Reason: And for the record, the right TO vote also equates to the right NOT to. I never said I wasn't voting, BTW - I said I wasn't going to vote for someone undeserving. In other words, both the Dems and Repubs are ass-out while I'm marking my ballot.
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#1745291 - 06/14/12 10:32 AM
Re: Top U.S. Companies Pay No Taxes
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This is for you WW:
Warren: Americans ‘understand the game is rigged’
Speaking to MSNBC host Chris Matthews on Wednesday evening, Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren (D) said that in her time on the campaign trail, she’s realized that most Americans “understand the game is rigged,” and that “they’re ready for somebody to get out there and talk to them about it.”
“They blew up a big bubble, they took out the risk, they sucked out the profits, and then when the whole thing came crashing down it was American families, right there, who took it right on the chin,” Warren added. “Then that same group on Wall Street fought against any kind of financial reform. When they lost that, barely by a hair, they started a guerilla war to make sure that no serious rules would be put in place. This is the fight, right now, for the heart and soul of our country.”
Here is more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/06/14/warren-americans-understand-the-game-is-rigged/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story%29
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#1745405 - 06/15/12 01:51 PM
Re: Top U.S. Companies Pay No Taxes
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Thanks, Tim:
I've understood the game is rigged for a good long while now; the financial "crisis" did nothing but reinforce that for me.
However, this most recent "crisis" is the same one brewing for decades; the same one causing "recessions" every 10 years or so - the same one popping up again and again REGARDLESS of who's in office.
There are no simple answers or quick fixes; some reforms are needed, some regulation is needed, some easing of some regulations and reversals of some reforms are needed as well.
It seems to me, Dems and Repubs are so busy finger-pointing and trying so hard to move themselves to the opposite end of the spectrum from one another (i.e., Dems will "TAX us to death in order to fund dead-beats and bailouts," while Repubs will "DEREGULATE us all to oblivion in order to let big business destroy this country") they actually accomplish NOTHING more than mudslinging.
I'm over it. I realize a return to the Constitution and a balance between rights and responsibilities is where the nation needs to be to succeed. ANYONE acting out of line with this will not get my vote, no matter what party they belong to, regardless of whether that means a win for the "other guy" because I select an outsider/longshot/underdog, or "waste my vote," as you might put it.
I'm determined to stick to my principles in the voting booth. I'm not at all interested in playing partisan politics; I'd rather say I maintained my integrity than jump up and down over "winning" a bogus game of strategy.
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