tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7530739.post8731564030837475694..comments2024-03-02T05:30:52.253-05:00Comments on Alternate Brain: It's only a matter of time ...Fixerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09672137568947891733noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7530739.post-24440515713773010812011-09-06T16:57:05.735-04:002011-09-06T16:57:05.735-04:00You are wrong. O gave the middle class tax cuts
a...You are wrong. O gave the middle class tax cuts<br />and infrastructure jobs in his $1 trillion stimulus.<br />Where would unemplm't be w/o it? 10.5% +<br />and the RAYpublicans would be calling for<br />impeachment "due to his callous disregard for<br />the suffering of ah unemployed"<br /><br />They called for his impeachment almost after<br />his swearing in ceremony was botched by <br />Chief Justice Roberts. If he gets a 2nd term<br />they might do it for real especially if ppl <br />like you undermine the political process<br />which discourages voting allowing them <br />to take the senate. Then again you might <br />be for Hillary getting the nomination.Klaatuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14469956121595595943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7530739.post-58460904774851459502011-09-06T14:22:50.100-04:002011-09-06T14:22:50.100-04:00They'll simply hire half of us to murder the o...They'll simply hire half of us to murder the other half.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7530739.post-20493593328689215542011-09-06T08:47:02.004-04:002011-09-06T08:47:02.004-04:00You're a great optimist. The fact is that thro...You're a great optimist. The fact is that throughout all of human history the periods in which there was anything resembling a real middle class have been rare and all fairly recent, and we've been steadily losing ours for decades now. Since it arose only after the Great Depression of the 1930s, and didn't really get underway until the postwar years of the 1950s, then it had a short run indeed, since it was being dismantled starting with the moment that Reagan was elected President. I remember plainly when the notion of him becoming President was seen as utterly ridiculous, Doonesbury even did cartoons with "yeah and Reagan will be President" or the like as the punchline, since he was seen as so far on the right wing fringe as to be unelectable. <br /><br />The countries you point to as examples of how "it's just a matter of time" like Tunisia, Syria, and so on-- well, here's Syria for example, from Wikipedia:<br /><br />"The post-independence period was tumultuous, and a large number of military coups and coup attempts shook the country in the period 1949–1970. Syria was under Emergency Law from 1962–2011, effectively suspending most constitutional protections for citizens, and its system of government is considered non-democratic."<br /><br />That's roughly 60 years controlled by either the military, or a dictator, or both (and before under the control of the French, and on and on as you go back). So yes, it's just a matter of time I suppose, but anyone who thinks that means "in a couple of years we'll finally be free of the corporatacracy of Bush, Obama, et al, is far more optimistic than I am.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7530739.post-56802498133480489222011-09-05T14:11:31.039-04:002011-09-05T14:11:31.039-04:00I guess we really do need a Republican to lead us ...<i>I guess we really do need a Republican to lead us completely off the cliff to finally wake the fuck up.</i><br /><br />Great. We'll wake up just in time to hit the ground. United Splat! Of America.Gordonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05772126106416366135noreply@blogger.com