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In reply to the discussion: ROMNEY Donor: The "Common" People Just "Don’t understand what’s going on." [View all]abelenkpe
(9,933 posts)How we can afford to give profitable multinational corporations subsidies while simultaneously claiming we don't have enough money to fund social programs. Will the corporations go without needed healthcare or starve if we cut subsidies like the people forced to go without due to cutbacks in social programs?
How can we afford to spend more than every other nation on defense while simultaneously claiming we don't have enough money to fund social programs? Will the MIC collapse if we care for our own citizens?
How can we willfully let our infrastructure rot and decay when millions of people rely on that infrastructure and more when millions of workers are idle looking for work? Wouldn't hiring those idle workers benefit our society by rebuilding our infrastructure, taking pressure off of strained social programs and improving the economy?
How does weakening civil rights help our economy or improve our society? Is it the mark of an advanced culture taking away rights for women and minorities? Cause that would be a new one for me.
How does shipping good paying jobs here in America to countries where workers have fewer rights, where corporations don't have to care about the environment help the local economy here?
Think she can help me understand? Do I need a doctorate? I only have a graduate degree....
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