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The Backlash Cometh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-19-11 10:50 AM Original message |
Why are Republicans drying up the consumer base? |
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ashling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-19-11 10:55 AM Response to Original message |
1. I believe you are on to something |
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Newsjock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-19-11 10:55 AM Response to Original message |
2. We don't matter one whit to them anymore |
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Lasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-19-11 11:08 AM Response to Reply #2 |
5. Exactly right, the US worker and consumer have been sold out. |
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The Backlash Cometh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-19-11 03:55 PM Response to Reply #5 |
18. Good points. Public workers buy American products. |
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Lasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-19-11 05:30 PM Response to Reply #18 |
22. And the US wealthy elite build factories on foreign soil with their tax break money. |
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The Backlash Cometh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-19-11 06:24 PM Response to Reply #22 |
24. Now how do we get this information to the mainstream? |
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Lasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-20-11 11:09 AM Response to Reply #24 |
28. We can't. |
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Historic NY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-19-11 11:04 AM Response to Original message |
3. They haven't looked at main st. recently. |
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PA Democrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-19-11 11:04 AM Response to Original message |
4. Wall Street and corporate CEOs are all about short term profits |
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lame54 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-19-11 11:10 AM Response to Original message |
6. because there is always Walmart... |
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Skidmore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-19-11 11:10 AM Response to Original message |
7. They've sucked this market dry and now have their sights on |
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FredStembottom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-19-11 12:59 PM Response to Reply #7 |
14. ..and want America just long enough to front their investments in Asia |
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tosh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-19-11 11:15 AM Response to Original message |
8. Crop rotation. |
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Boxerfan (710 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-19-11 11:18 AM Response to Reply #8 |
9. Excellent analogy...Crop rotation |
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whatchamacallit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-19-11 11:19 AM Response to Reply #9 |
10. Yep n/t |
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MisterP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-20-11 03:23 AM Response to Reply #9 |
25. Andre Gunnar Frank notes this pattern: since the 16th century the Nordeste (the little equatorial |
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Raksha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-19-11 04:01 PM Response to Reply #8 |
20. Very good analogy! |
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leftstreet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-19-11 04:02 PM Response to Reply #8 |
21. +1 |
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socialist_n_TN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-19-11 11:21 AM Response to Original message |
11. Simple really. The big capitalists,............ |
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BuelahWitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-19-11 01:01 PM Response to Reply #11 |
16. But "the world" does not make enough to buy their items |
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brewens (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-19-11 11:28 AM Response to Original message |
12. It must have been about 1988 at one of the Anheuser Busch |
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jeff47 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-19-11 12:45 PM Response to Original message |
13. Because they're short-sighted |
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malaise (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-19-11 01:01 PM Response to Original message |
15. Simple |
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Moostache (905 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-19-11 01:18 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. Power for power's sake. |
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XanaDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-19-11 03:56 PM Response to Original message |
19. They're just shifting it to China and India |
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Zoeisright (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-19-11 05:32 PM Response to Original message |
23. Because they already have all the money and they don't care? |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-20-11 03:26 AM Response to Original message |
26. yes indeed. we should be pushing it hard -- cutting jobs = downward spiral. |
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Raine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-20-11 03:40 AM Response to Original message |
27. That's what China, India and the rest of the World |
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mmonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-20-11 11:12 AM Response to Original message |
29. Because their corporate lords sell globally, not just locally. |
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