https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/oct/31/the-podesta-emails-show-who-runs-america-and-how-they-do-it how the 1%ers organize their lives, trickle down economics at it's finest
![]() https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/oct/31/the-podesta-emails-show-who-runs-america-and-how-they-do-it how the 1%ers organize their lives, trickle down economics at it's finest always look out for number one and don't step in number two |
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![]() Alex "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." -- Isaac Asimov |
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![]() -- Drew |
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![]() RICH PEOPLE GET THE BREAKS! Set that in 96-point type, front page! Put out an "Extra" edition! Geez, they bin rigging the system all along—hoocoodanode? (As SF Chronicle columnist Jon carroll observed many years ago, "The rules are set up to favor the wealthy. That's one of the many reasons people want to be wealthy.") cordially gobsmacked, |
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![]() It takes nerve to be a Democrat; It takes money to be a Republican. (Check out PBS's fine tribute to this peerless immortal) WILL ROGERS AND AMERICAN POLITICS. |
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![]() Back in the early '80s I talked to a Republican candidate at a Chamber of Commerce mixer. I told him I was a registered Republican but never voted for Republicans, because the Democrats were always inviting me to good parties and I'd never been invited to a Republican party. He assured me I would be invited to a Republican party. He was as good as his word. Wthin a month or so I received an invitation to a Republican party - $150 at the door, a fair amount in those days. The Democrats never asked for money until well into the party, and it was voluntary. |