Are Republicans holding hurricane Irene victims hostage in order to shut down the federal government?
source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItPdtsRoXwE&feature=digest_refresh_thu
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bike10
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The compassion of Tea Bagging/GOP is to first take care of the rich and then we will divide the rest of money to ourselves.
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PIANORAMA
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By the way, Republicans will approve unemployment extension if checks go to Koch brothers - http://www.freewoodpost.com/2011/09/18/republicans-will-approve-unemployment-ext...
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Impoverished GOP Congressman files for bankruptcy from "almost reliable news" http://www.freewoodpost.com/2011/09/19/impoverished-gop-congressman-can-barely-a...
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GRC54
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Oh no! They are holding Hurricane Irene Victims hostage. These bad asses and loosers are holding the whole country hostage. These brain trust geniuses think they know what's right by getting rid of something that's good for something that's good.
Real party of genius. - 8 months ago
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GRC54
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GRC54:
Getting rid of something good for something good - for them!
Thanks, GRC54! - 8 months ago
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PIANORAMA
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Ron Paul, Rick Perry and other rightwingers want to turn the clock back to 1900. What was life like then??
http://www.alternet.org/story/152397/ron_paul%2C_ri...
In 1900, the American South was essentially run by a religious fundamentalist terrorist faction that perpetrated untold murders with impunity. Women were deprived of individual rights and therefore limited to the chattel position to which the Bible conscripts them. Children worked in factories, where they were often severely injured or worse. In short, 1900 was a time of Dickensian squalor in America. As for disaster relief in that year, Melissa Harris-Perry reminded MSNBC viewers that “somewhere between 6,000 and 12,000 people died in the Galveston hurricane – so many bodies that people couldn’t bury them all. Barrels of whisky were handed out to dull the horror of the funeral pyres that burned across the city for weeks on end. That seemed to be the extent that the government could respond, to dull your pain with some free liquor. ‘Sorry, we can’t do more.’”
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The CR that funds the gov for 7 weeks after 9/30 has about $3.65 billion in it for disaster relief. As it should it also has cuts to fund that amount. It was passed by the House and Harry Reid shelved it. Said he would not even bring it to the floor for a vote. Said there was no hurry, the Senate would come up with something on Monday. One side of the HOuse has done its job. The Senate is the obstructionist group. Making the Republicans the bad guys in this little dust up is a lie.
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warman1138
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It used to be criminals that practiced extortion, the term rethuglican fits.
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warman1138:
totally!
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SIBob
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Tying cuts to much needed relief borders on criminality. Our local thug, Rep. Michael Grimm, joined in on the passage of the stacked House bill, which will be dead-on-arrival in the Senate. Many Staten Island residents suffered flood damage after the hurricane and are in desperate need of FEMA funding. While Grimm plays politics, his neighbors suffer. Do you think that people will remember this in 2012, or is the attention span too short?
http://sibob.org/wordpress/?p=7633 - 8 months ago
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SIBob:
Remember Katrina. They let people suffer and die. They brought in armed thugs to drive people out of their homes and neighborhoods . . .
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Joeydee44
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2012 Republican Slogan: "We Don't Care About You"
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Joeydee44:
Let's see now, who could we get to sing it???? Who would lower themselves, I wonder . . . well for money, some folks might do anything.
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lazloman
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How far will they go? They will trash this country and then some, that's how far.
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http://blog.reelloop.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/blofeld.jpeg
The Republicans, Bond villans come to us for advise.
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EdJoyProductions:
Mein Gott !! Omm Klaus !!
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EdJoyProductions:
Omg, ain't that the truth! What a disturbing photo - it captures perfectly the evil that embodied in the heartless tactics of the rightwingers . . .
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Milieu
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"Are Republicans holding hurricane Irene victims hostage in order to shut down the federal government?"
Are Racists stupid?
Do Republic Syndicate Members steal from the Poor and Give to the Rich?Yes, yes, and Yes.
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Milieu:
so true, thank you, Milieu!
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"Are Republicans holding hurricane Irene victims hostage in order to shut down the federal government?"
Did anybody really expect otherwise? These sons of bitches have become so predictably banal in their evil that I fear the Earth would stop turning if they decided to *not* hold a group of weaker people hostage in order to continue with their wholesale theft of our public resources.
Shooting would be too good for those scum.
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ThirdSection:
Well, we saw what the Republicans did to the victims of Katrina . . . let them to rot and die for 5 days and then brought in armed thugs to drive people out of their own homes and neighborhoods . . .
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PIANORAMA:
There's one argument for protecting the second amendment: You might be hit with a disaster during a Republican administration.
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ThirdSection:
I believe Katrina showed us that one . . .
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"Price: FEMA Disaster Relief Operating on Fumes -- GOP Still Holding Funds Hostage to Budget Cuts"
Uploaded by RepDavidPrice on Sep 21, 2011
Today, Representative David Price (NC-04) spoke on the floor of the House of Representatives, urging his colleagues to quickly shore up the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) Disaster Relief Fund before it runs out of money on September 26. In the wake of Hurricane Irene, Rep. Price, the top Democrat on the House Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee which funds FEMA, has repeatedly clashed with congressional Republicans who still insist that additional disaster relief funding be offset by cuts to other government programs.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------We know what the Republicans have been saying about FEMA and it's funds.
Let's take a moment to hear what a Democrat has to say from one of the states that have been hit hard by Huricane Irene, shall we?
Rep. Price puts the issue succinctly and concisely into words that anyone can plainly understand what the difference is between the Republicans and of those on the other side of the aisle from them.
What we have here is Rep. Price communicating why Republicans want to not only halt the progress FEMA is making but to stop any governmental progress that could help lift this country out of it's doldrums from the lack of jobs this plan would create.
It's to prevent any chance the plans Democrats AND President Obama wants to put into place to actually HELP the public sector through difficult times by providing jobs!
I call it the "Hurricane Irene Republican Job Killer Plan" and it should be sold to the American people as such.
Talk about a lot of hot air coming from the majority of Congress! If they had exhaled simultaneously, they might have driven that hurricane back out to sea!
Who are the job-killers now?
Boehner, where are the jobs you promised YOUR Republican majority in congress would create this past November?
OVER TEN MONTHS AGO?!
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Buckeye_Bill:
We know what the Republicans did for victims of Hurricane Katrina . . . nothing. Let them sit and swelter and die for five days . . . and then turn gun-toting thugs on neighborhoods to drive people out of their homes.
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Johnny_Los_Angeles
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Sounds exactly like something they would do....
People you need to realize they are only for the super rich and against anyone who is not!
DONT VOTE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE AGAINST YOUR BEST INTERESTS! - 8 months ago
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Johnny_Los_Angeles:
Well said.
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nardo1224
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I'm pretty sure these are the same people who voted these folks into office. Republicans will go as far as they are allowed to go and if they get away with it it will be the people who are suffering fault. Why people aren't storming Republican campaign offices, breaking windows etc like they did during the 2008 elections with Democrats? because America is deathly afraid of Republicans and that's the way they like it.
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nardo1224:
Americans watch too much Fox TV and have forgotten how to discern truth from fiction. Thanks nardo!
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nardo1224:
"Republicans will go as far as they are allowed to go and if they get away with it it will be the people who are sufferings' fault."
But, but, but...they have guns and aren't afraid to use them!
Right?
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.
I say if they bring guns, our side should bring grenades or maybe even rocket-launchers!
If they bring tanks, we bring Blackhawk helicopters!
They escalate.....WE ESCALATE!
Détente time is over!
Let the fighting begin!
It's time to do WHATEVER it takes to WIN!
Calling Private SNAFU! Time to stand at attention and get busy kicking some Republican arse!
ALL HANDS ON DECK DEMOCRATS!
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Buckeye_Bill
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Buckeye_Bill:
Democrats and whoever else cares about their children's future on this planet . . .
Thanks, Buckeye, as usual! - 8 months ago
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PIANORAMA:
Good luck with that, Fox news viewers don't want the truth, they want ear tickling. they want to be told exactly what they want to hear truth be damned.
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Buckeye_Bill:
Totally, we better stock up because we don't want to show up to a gun fight armed with knives.
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nardo1224:
We need practice...meet ya at the gunrange Saturday! Because you KNOW they are practicing!
Bring plenty of ammo!
LOL
+^d
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KB723
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Pawns we have become... =(
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KB723:
Seems that way!
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JohnA
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They got it easy compared to Katrina victims, they should count their blessings.
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JohnA:
Right. That's the answer.
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PIANORAMA:
I live in Mississippi. When they''ve gone through what we've gone through, I'll be more sympathetic.
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JohnA:
I don't blame you. . .
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JohnA:
btw, I've commented on this on other community postings. I'm well aware as many are that Katrina victims were left to rot and die; that armed thugs came in to neighborhoods to drive people out of their homes; and that nothing will ever be the same in that whole area. The way that disaster was handled was unspeakably cruel. Heartless. Despicable.
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PIANORAMA:
Thank you.
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Vic_Romano
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I'm starting to think that this whole country is going to need disaster relief from Hurricane Teabag.
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Vic_Romano:
We'll need it but won't get it.
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Vic_Romano:
Perfect, nicely said! :)
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letsliveinpeace
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I can believe this because GOP are holding America hostage. What else is new!
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letsliveinpeace:
They're heartless.
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The 6 killer apps of prosperity from TED: private property rights are the bedrock of prosperity. http://www.ted.com/talks/niall_ferguson_the_6_killer_apps_of_prosperity.html?utm...
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RevKen
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I would prefer that the government not shut down but I would be all for not paying anyone in Congress until they do their jobs and get this straightened out.
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RevKen:
The answer, I believe, consists at least in part in getting the corporations out of the federal government. Too many favors are owed; the Congress members are too controlled to be able to do what they should do. And too many are greedy and cowardly. Unlike Bernie Sanders.
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PIANORAMA:
I have said many times that no type of reform will ever become affective until we have greed reform for all of us.
How much is enough? When does excess become obscene? We should all be allowed to get as much as we can but there is no reason to take the bread off a starving person's table so that it can be stored on another person's bread pile.
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RevKen:
This is so true, RevKen. How many square feet does one need - these mammoth energy-guzzling homes are obscene. How many cars does one individual need? How much food is wasted each and every day? My grandparents and parents survived the Depression and frugality was bred into our bones. The heartless refusal to share with those in need, the endless striving to get the latest electronic gadget, the spoiled rotten attitude of so many kids growing up in homes where "things" have been substituted for love, discipline and quality time, is more than disheartening. It is saddening. It is shameful.
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RevKen:
I wanted to get back to you, RevKen, on this very issue. Here is a link that I think you will be interested in, although I am sure you already are aware of this huge disgrace. When so many in the world are going hungry, this is just insane.
http://www.alternet.org/story/152429/a_culture_of_waste%3A_our_real_food_crisis_...
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More exposure of Rick Perry from TYTs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6kF4nxIiDU&feature=digest_refresh_thu
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This is first of a 4-part documentary investiation into the Men Who Crashed the World: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6zZ_JfROhOE
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Leen61
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This is what continues to baffle me most about the people who continue to vote for these GOP thugs. It used to be the normal reaction of normal living, breathing people that when they would see an act of outright inhumanity it would be met with outrage and disgust and if they were a politician they would pay the price of getting voted out. But now these right wing zombies will suspend their decency and humanity to continue voting Republican. What has happened to so many people, when now the majority of this country seems to wallow in hatred of their fellow man?
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Leen61:
I've referred folks to this before, a book by John Taylor Gatto, one of the most awarded schoolteachers in the city of New York, called "Weapons of Mass Instruction." I believe that many people have lost the ability to think for themselves, i.e., think critically, analytically and rationally. Not only that, but most peole's diets are so poor and they spend so much time watching TV and what passes for "news" that they are not informed as to the root causes of the main issues in politics, government, the economy and welfare of the people.
Thank you Leen61, for your wonderful comment, as usual. - 8 months ago
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PIANORAMA:
You referred that great book to me the other day, PIANORAMA! It's so true! I agree with your points as well. Thanks for the kudos.
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Leen61:
You are welcome. I really appreciate your succinct comments.
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timelord999:
I believe that says it all, timelord999!
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timelord999:
That's a good one! LOL!
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Greeks striking over new austerity measures - it's happening in the U.S. as well, although mainstream media ignores the Wall Street protest. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnH9ARzuXE4&feature=relmfu
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PIANORAMA:
Keith talked about the Wall Street protests last night on Countdown.
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Leen61:
Keith speaks true.
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PIANORAMA:
He always does.
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Leen61:
Amen.
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faye59
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These skunks are almost inhuman. We already know they are inhumane.
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faye59:
They are the most self-serving, greedy hypocrites that have ever been in government. They don't care about human beings, American citizens, women, children, old people, veterans, or anyone else besides themselves and their own bank accounts. Thanks, faye!
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PIANORAMA:
You're most welcome.
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