Comments on: Early Morning Swim http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/28/early-morning-swim-176/ Firedoglake weblog Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:23:28 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: RevBev http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/28/early-morning-swim-176/#comment-1944653 RevBev Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:14:47 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/28/early-morning-swim-176/#comment-1944653 <p>NBC/Tday has feature on exec’s salary & bonuses…For the good of the country these folks should provide the needed health care for a few years to get the coverage launched. Giving away a couple of houses would pay for a year of care….</p> NBC/Tday has feature on exec’s salary & bonuses…For the good of the country these folks should provide the needed health care for a few years to get the coverage launched. Giving away a couple of houses would pay for a year of care….

]]> By: SouthernDragon http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/28/early-morning-swim-176/#comment-1944652 SouthernDragon Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:13:29 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/28/early-morning-swim-176/#comment-1944652 <p>A belief that firm support of business and finance is the cure for all ills.</p> A belief that firm support of business and finance is the cure for all ills.

]]> By: SouthernDragon http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/28/early-morning-swim-176/#comment-1944651 SouthernDragon Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:10:27 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/28/early-morning-swim-176/#comment-1944651 <p>No, those are just the bottom tier workers, mentally ill and physically disabled, the folks with non-existent support systems. Nothing will happen until former retail store owners, white collar workers and executives pitch their tents under a bridge. Health services, financial services and war toys are the winners right now. Eventually they too will be touched. When that happens perhaps we’ll see change we can believe in.</p> No, those are just the bottom tier workers, mentally ill and physically disabled, the folks with non-existent support systems. Nothing will happen until former retail store owners, white collar workers and executives pitch their tents under a bridge. Health services, financial services and war toys are the winners right now. Eventually they too will be touched. When that happens perhaps we’ll see change we can believe in.

]]> By: ghostof911 http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/28/early-morning-swim-176/#comment-1944650 ghostof911 Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:04:54 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/28/early-morning-swim-176/#comment-1944650 <p>It’s already happening. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/26/us/26tents.html" rel="nofollow">Hoovervilles 2009</a>.</p> It’s already happening. Hoovervilles 2009.

]]> By: WarOnWarOff http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/28/early-morning-swim-176/#comment-1944649 WarOnWarOff Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:04:34 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/28/early-morning-swim-176/#comment-1944649 <p><i>So what’s killing the Democratic Party, greed?</i></p> <p>Warm buckets of spit.</p> So what’s killing the Democratic Party, greed?

Warm buckets of spit.

]]> By: wigwam http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/28/early-morning-swim-176/#comment-1944648 wigwam Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:03:24 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/28/early-morning-swim-176/#comment-1944648 <p>Yeah. Let’s call it a “tax” when the IRS collects it, and “welfare” when they send it to the corporations. Truth in advertising and all that.</p> Yeah. Let’s call it a “tax” when the IRS collects it, and “welfare” when they send it to the corporations. Truth in advertising and all that.

]]> By: wigwam http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/28/early-morning-swim-176/#comment-1944647 wigwam Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:59:50 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/28/early-morning-swim-176/#comment-1944647 <blockquote><p>So who’s going to enforce that? A new division of the IRS?</p></blockquote> <p>Wow! Talk about “taxation without representation.” <strong>Where’s my teabag?</strong></p>

So who’s going to enforce that? A new division of the IRS?

Wow! Talk about “taxation without representation.” Where’s my teabag?

]]> By: SouthernDragon http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/28/early-morning-swim-176/#comment-1944646 SouthernDragon Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:58:41 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/28/early-morning-swim-176/#comment-1944646 <p>I’d hate to think that we’re going to have to wait until the centrists and center right pols have driven the country totally into the ditch before Americans wake up to the fact that a corporate state is not a good thing.</p> I’d hate to think that we’re going to have to wait until the centrists and center right pols have driven the country totally into the ditch before Americans wake up to the fact that a corporate state is not a good thing.

]]> By: Crosstimbers http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/28/early-morning-swim-176/#comment-1944645 Crosstimbers Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:54:49 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/28/early-morning-swim-176/#comment-1944645 <p>So rope-a-dope passed from Claudius to Ali to Obama and that convinces you that the Democratic Party, and the U.S. in general are beyond redemption? Maybe you’ll feel better when you get on a different series of novels. Robert Graves is strong meade.</p> So rope-a-dope passed from Claudius to Ali to Obama and that convinces you that the Democratic Party, and the U.S. in general are beyond redemption? Maybe you’ll feel better when you get on a different series of novels. Robert Graves is strong meade.

]]> By: ghostof911 http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/28/early-morning-swim-176/#comment-1944644 ghostof911 Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:53:50 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/28/early-morning-swim-176/#comment-1944644 <p>So who’s going to enforce that? A new division of the IRS?</p> So who’s going to enforce that? A new division of the IRS?

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