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K8-EEE (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-15-11 02:54 PM Original message |
GOP policies turned the middle class into the working poor |
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Skink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-15-11 03:03 PM Response to Original message |
1. It's the new reality. |
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K8-EEE (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-15-11 03:06 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. The house my parents bought for $30,000 in 1966 is now |
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yourout (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-15-11 03:05 PM Response to Original message |
2. While they are largely responsible for this they got a lot of help for people that should have...... |
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K8-EEE (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-15-11 03:06 PM Original message |
Agreed nt |
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Andy823 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-15-11 03:06 PM Response to Original message |
4. Yes |
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KansDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-15-11 03:07 PM Response to Original message |
5. I was thinking about this recently. |
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notadmblnd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-15-11 03:14 PM Response to Original message |
6. I don't get to think about an eye exam or getting my kid to college |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-15-11 03:16 PM Response to Original message |
7. And poor people have been dismissed and ignored. |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-15-11 03:18 PM Response to Original message |
8. Any trend that is detrimental to full employment pushes down wages. |
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subterranean (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-15-11 05:36 PM Response to Original message |
9. On top of that, we also have expenses we didn't have back then. |
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Skink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-15-11 09:46 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. I watch free over the air television. It would be nice if there was that option for home internet. |
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NNN0LHI (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-15-11 09:55 PM Response to Original message |
11. The cashier jobs in those grocery stores used to be well paying union jobs in the 70's |
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MadHound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-15-11 10:02 PM Response to Original message |
12. Hard to get that message out there when the impoverishment of the US has been a bipartisan effort. |
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Better Believe It (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-15-11 10:14 PM Response to Reply #12 |
15. The de-regulation of Wall Street and banking was also a bi-partisan affair. |
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Richard Steele (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-15-11 10:07 PM Response to Original message |
13. K&R |
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Better Believe It (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-15-11 10:14 PM Response to Original message |
14. It is a bi-partisan attack on our living standards and "entitlements". |
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