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discntnt_irny_srcsm

(18,578 posts) Sat Dec 5, 2015, 10:45 AM Dec 2015

FDR:

"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

Tell me about it. Government needs to be about leveling the opportunity field, doing whatever it takes to assure that folks can take care of themselves and afford what they need and provide for their families.

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Meet the Press Nerd Screen Protalker Dec 2015 #1

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1. Meet the Press Nerd Screen

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Sat Dec 5, 2015, 11:25 AM

Dec 2015

Sunday the nerd screen pointed out the biggest losers in the recent recovery are the poor in the south outside of the cities. This part of the country is right for a Manchurian candidate type of messianic leader. see you the top two people are in the Republican Party.

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