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kentuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-25-06 08:11 AM
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Republicans sure have made a mess of things...
Is there any part of our government that they haven't screwed up? The economy? I'm sure people have never felt more secure. The military? They are stretched to the breaking point and are stuck in a quagmire with no exit in view. Taxes? How much you paying for gas? There goes your taxbreak! This country is divided and we have a leader that thinks, that knows, he is above the law, and no one will hold him accountable. It's politics, they say....

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Mayberry Machiavelli Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-25-06 08:13 AM
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1. "Are You Happy with the Results of Republican One Party Rule"?
This should be a key slogan going into 06 and 08.
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C_U_L8R Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-25-06 08:16 AM
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2. I seriously cannot think
of ONE good thing they have done.

No one single thing.
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izzie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-25-06 08:27 AM
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3. And they are not done yet.
:hide:
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C_U_L8R Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-25-06 08:39 AM
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4. One positive way to look at it
the democrats will inherit all the oppressive powers that the repukes
have granted themselves through all their over-reaching.
They must have thought they were going to have a thousand year reich
or something. Fortunately history does repeat itself.. and the fascists
always lose. Sorry freeps.. payback is gonna be a reeaaaal bitch.
That day is coming soon. Wooohoo ///Can't wait.
Bwahahahhahahaha
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China_cat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-25-06 09:14 AM
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5. Ask Ronald Reagan's question
(but add 1 to the # of years)

"Are you better off now than you were <5> years ago?"

For 98% of the population, the answer is no.

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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-25-06 09:16 AM
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7. actually, it is true for 100% of the population
those greedy bastards in the 2$ are just too stupid to know it
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izzie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-25-06 09:24 AM
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8. Maybe the elite can open their homes to us like they did in England?
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misternormal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-25-06 09:15 AM
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6. Depends on whom you ask...
... the rich love the tax breaks...
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Muddy Waters Guitar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-25-06 09:25 AM
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9. Yes, indeed they have, as I wrote elsewhere-- good to learn some French
As I wrote in another thread, a fairly conservative-leaning economist college buddy of mine, a top student and a star in his job who's one of the smartest people I've met, is taking Pimsleur courses in French in preparation for a move soon to Marseilles, since the dangerously low savings rates and intolerably high public and private debt levels in the US foreshadow a serious economic collapse within the next decade. Although generally Republican-leaning, he despises Bush and blames him for much of the current fiasco.

He was advising me and the rest of us at the bar where we were hanging out, that the best career move to make these days would be to snap up one of those good language-learning course materials from Pimsleur, Berlitz or Instant Immersion and learn a big EU language like French, German, Spanish, Italian or Dutch, then hitch up with a European company (or a European branch of an American one) and move out ASAP before the inevitable reckoning-- basically, when the yield curve becomes so far inverted that interest rates would have to double to cover our debt, leading to a collapse in the economy and further capital flight out of the US, exacerbating the problem further until the dollar plummets and the US effectively defaults. The whole English-speaking world in particular has been dragged into Bush's blunders, so we have to look elsewhere. Chinese, Hindi or Japanese might also be interesting if you're so inclined, but because of the EU's discipline on public and private debt and higher savings rate, the EU is the most stable place right now in spite of its own issues. We have to be prepared for this.
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