[rangerone314]

How do I prevent aggression against me from groundwater contamination by one of these companies in a true "free market system"?

[rangerone314]

I got an idea... tax wealth (all wealth, including investments), the way property taxes on your home gets taxed.

Maybe that will "change behavior" so the wealthy put less money in commodities and that will bring food & gas prices lower for those of us in the middle class.

[Outcast_Searcher]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rangerone314', 'H')ow do I prevent aggression against me from groundwater contamination by one of these companies in a true "free market system"?

[Cid_Yama]

You just refuse to put the things that will fix it on the table.

End all subsidies to oil, coal, ethanol, and big ag. End all subsidies to multinationals. You want assistance you operate solely in the US.

No more letting corporations have free access to oil in the gulf and natural resources on public lands. Those are our resources and the country gets it's cut.

Corporate minimum tax of 20%. No more corporations paying no taxes.

Bring the troops home. Cut the defense budget in half.

Raise taxes on those making more than 500,000 a year to 50%.

Single payer health care. Based on Canadian system. With everyone now being eligible, There would be an instant need for health care workers. Jobs for everyone!

Look at that, problem solved. Our coffers would be filled to the brim. We could even afford to fix our infrastructure.

[Cid_Yama]

It was the Democrats the passed the New Deal and created Social Security. It was the Democrats that created Medicare and Medicaid and the Food Stamp program. It was the Democrats created Unemployment Insurance.

These programs ensure that the elderly and the disabled do not die miserably after they no longer are able to work.

These programs ensure that children have proper nutrition and medical care during their formative years so that they may grow up to be productive members of society.

These programs ensure that the cyclical periods of recession/depression that we KNOW occur and will occur again in the future do not leave the unemployed unable to survive until the next upturn in the economy.

This is what the Democrats are about. The welfare of the people of the United States, the common good.

These programs the Republicans have tried to destroy since they were created.

These programs, at this very moment, are being targeted by the Republicans.

The Republicans have been at war with the working class since the end of the 19th century, when workers first organized to fight for better working conditions.

The Republicans now attempt to strip away all of the gains made by the American people over the last century. The American people by and large ARE the working class.

There is a BIG difference between the two parties.

I can't wait till 2012.

"...where working class kicks corporate ass from sea to shining sea"

[AdTheNad]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rangerone314', 'I') got an idea... tax wealth (all wealth, including investments), the way property taxes on your home gets taxed.

[Cid_Yama]

I'm more than willing to keep you rightys arguing for the elimination of Medicare and Social Security right up to election day.

The only Republicans who will be left will be those who didn't have to face an election that year.

Then we WILL have a clear majority that you won't be able to block.

[PrestonSturges]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AdTheNad', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rangerone314', 'I') got an idea... tax wealth (all wealth, including investments), the way property taxes on your home gets taxed.

[Oakley]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rangerone314', 'H')ow do I prevent aggression against me from groundwater contamination by one of these companies in a true "free market system"?

[PrestonSturges]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Outcast_Searcher', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rangerone314', 'H')ow do I prevent aggression against me from groundwater contamination by one of these companies in a true "free market system"?

[efarmer]

The Republican Doctrine is an antique in my opinion. It is based on an America and world view that has resources available that in comparison to humanity are unlimited when compared to one's lifetime and the future of the next generation or two. So the technique becomes one of empowering the top movers and shakers to pursue the largest possible exploits and let the operation trickle down to the common folk.

As we have seen in this past decade, wherein a true Republican believer was President, when this antique doctrine is applied to the present conditions of America, it implements a dismantling of the middle class, and protects the wealthy and in fact subsidizes them to dismantle their own nation in pursuit of quick profits in whatever area of the world that cheap goods and labor may be had.

The Republican "Go West Young Man" mindset is a recipe for cannibalizing America, and they go on and on willy nilly thinking that if you act like it is 1890 or 1950, the world will conform somehow and everything will be how it used to be.

They really and truly believe this, and they really and truly would run us off this cliff to prove themselves right, and then make damn sure the "little people" have to jump first so the movers and shakers would have something soft to land on if push came to shove and they had to go over the
edge themselves.

[AgentR11]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PrestonSturges', 'H')ow is Grandma supposed to defend herself against predatory insurance companies who would enter the market under the Ryan plan.

[vision-master]

Hey clueless, many ppl end up with chronic diseases that don't kill em and treatment is expensive. Of course it won't happen to you bc yer reptile brain can't see beyond the end of yer nose.

[Cid_Yama]

Democrats Defeat Republican plan to kill Medicare in the Senate 40-57
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A')fter the loss in NY 26th district to Democrat Kathy Hochul, Republicans were unable to maintain ideological purity among their ranks, with a handful of Republicans crossing over to vote against the bill.

All 40 votes for the bill were Republican.

[AgentR11]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', 'H')ey clueless, many ppl end up with chronic diseases that don't kill em and treatment is expensive. Of course it won't happen to you bc yer reptile brain can't see beyond the end of yer nose.

[AgentR11]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cid_Yama', 'D')emocrats Defeat Republican plan to kill Medicare in the Senate 40-57;
All 40 votes for the bill were Republican.

[Cid_Yama]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'B')asically, those 40 voted that way because their constituents would lynch them specifically if they didn't.

[Fishman]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cid_Yama', 'I')t was the Democrats the passed the New Deal and created Social Security. It was the Democrats that created Medicare and Medicaid and the Food Stamp program. It was the Democrats created Unemployment Insurance. ..
This is what the Democrats are about. The welfare of the people of the United States, the common good. $this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '<')/div>

[Cid_Yama]

Social Security is not broke, it's Social Security's $2.6 trillion, that workers have paid in all their lives, that you are still trying to get your hands on.

This whole supposed financial crisis is a farce. There IS no financial crisis with Social Security or Medicare.

It's all made up by the Republicans in your never ending quest to destroy these programs.

And guess what? The people have woke up, and they won't be going back to sleep before the next election.

Your lies don't work anymore, eventually you will catch on to that, the people already have.

[Livewire713]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Fishman', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cid_Yama', 'I')t was the Democrats the passed the New Deal and created Social Security. It was the Democrats that created Medicare and Medicaid and the Food Stamp program. It was the Democrats created Unemployment Insurance. ..
This is what the Democrats are about. The welfare of the people of the United States, the common good. $this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '<')/div>