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POPSFear and Loathing in Middle America
More: Lucky for us, Bageant didn't hop on the next plane back west, and didn't chalk it all up to a terrible, misconstrued nostalgia. Instead, he stuck to his guns -- literally -- and tried to understand why people in his part of the country, people he genuinely loves despite his utter detestation of their politics, are so dyed-in-the-wool conservative that it'd take the Apocalypse to prize them away from supporting George W. Bush. "In the days before the spine of the labor movement was crushed, back when you could be a gun owner and a liberal without any conflict, members of the political left supported these workers, stood on the lines taking beatings at the plant gates alongside them," he argues. "Now there is practically no labor movement, and large numbers on the left are comfortably ensconced in the true middle class... From that vantage point, liberals currently view working whites as angry, warmongering bigots, happy pawns of the American empire -- which begs the questions
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POPSHow Did We Get Here? Enlighting article.....rings of truth! Does anyone out there remember GE Theater and Uncle Ronald....He was such a comforting figure.....so soft spoken, etc.
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POPSHow to Save the Middle Class from Extinction Krugman is correct in saying that this is not the middle class society that I grew up in! Maybe that's why so few people care much about "the two income family" just treading water to stay afloat.......the young families today don't have anything to compare their plight to.......they never lived in a society where one person could actually make enough money to keep his family in the necessities of life......those days are gone!
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POPSWings of Justice I can just hear the PRIMEVAL SCREAM now from conservatives who HATE Ted Kennedy. Oh well,....scream away....who the hell cares!
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POPSI LIKE IKE! "American people will not tolerate the dismantling of our social saftey net and the tearing of the social contract we understand to have with the corportists in order to keep their facsist tendencies at bay. " WELL SAID!
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POPSYour MasterCard or Your Life! I think I read in that new bankruptcy law that the banks are allowed to "knee-cap" you if you don't make the payments. Also, they are now allowed to charge as much interest as they want.......wait a minute!......they have been allowed to do that all along now!.......even without the new law. Oh well!.....just as long as we get rid of all these deadbeats! Maybe they will die or something.......
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POPSIn Debt We Trust....Hook em while they're young! Come on all you conservatives.....tell us how we all need to be "RESPONSIBLE"!!.... any then give all the power to the legal crooks in the banking and credit card industry.....cheer on the passage of a "travisty of a bankruptcy bill that shafts consumers and enriches the financial industry"!
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POPSAre you trapped in the soulless exurbs? "The creation of an American oligarchy.....a steady Weimarization of the American working class. The top one percent of American households have more wealth than the bottom 90 percent combined." This is an interesting tribute to our "Growing Economy" that King George will be talking about in tomorrows State of the Union Address.
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POPSHow can America be America My son served in the Peace Corps, and now works for the Peace Corps. He served in Panama for two years. His pay and living expenses was about $300 per month. I was unable to help him out financially, so he made it on his own for the most part. He now works for Peace Corps headquarters in Washington D.C., and has been in many different countries in the past several years.....some of which I can even pronounce the names, never mind understanding the geography. I know that his experiences has made him a better American Citizen, and a better human being. I am one proud father! If you are interested in the places he has been and the people and cultures he has experienced, go to www.webshots.com .....the screen name is "schreibe" the pictures are availabe for public view. The number of "views" average about 500 per week. Or, just look up a county ie "Suraname"
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POPSAwesome research/ Homework resource I only found this the other day and mostly I'm clipping it for my own uses; however, it's a great resource and I thought I'd share. The site itself has pretty cool info too. 'Hope you guys like the clip.
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POPSA Real Conservative Speaks Out! This article by Michael Gerson gets to the main idealistic problems of the current gang of so called conservative, republican, family first,......hypocrites
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POPSHere's a "yellow ribbon" I can support People who have the usual ribbons with pro-troop stuff on them are unlikely to be the same people who actually trying to help troops through direct actions...(other than stick ribbons to the back of their vehicles...which is hardly a transformative action in my book!).
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