Washington DC is filled with political car mechanics - some of them very good ones. Whoever the president is, such technicians are a necessary part of their administration. But the problem now is not that we lack good car mechanics. The problem is that we are on the wrong road. 39% of all Americans say they’re actually skipping meals in order to pay their rent. 44% of millennials now say that. 68,000 people die every year because they lack healthcare. 60% of Americans could not absorb a $400 unexpected expenditure. It doesn’t matter that the car is in good shape… if it’s headed towards a cliff.

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Also over 500,000 people file bankruptcy every year due to medical bills.
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Dems stuck us with NAFTA and the TPP, and job losses long surpassed job gains. Democrats stripped those left jobless of their most basic human rts (UN's UDHR) to food and shelter. Now they push for nuclear world war. Count me out.
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"The rulers of this most insecure of all worlds are rulers by accident, inept, frightened pilots at the controls of a vast machine they cannot understand, calling in experts to tell them which buttons to push.” - W. S. Burroughs
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Marianne, if you lose the primary, you must not give up your power to the Democrats for free. You must demand concessions before you endorse anyone else. I’m thinking Medicare for all at a minimum, and also raising the minimum wage and tying it to inflation. Then repeat that it.
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240 years this country has tried time and time again to make capitalism work each time with disastrous results. Damn, right we’re on the wrong road!
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an actual issue wrapped in...weird and vapid. does that give you folks confidence?
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1 in 5 families carry medical debt (CBS this morning). In most 1st world nations that doesn't happen. This is a form of forced servitude (slavery): one must work for "the man" to have access to healthcare. We have a gig economy, its insane to tie healthinsurance to employment.
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Yesssssss
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I think it was Confucius or Lao Tzu who said, "If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading." Yikes.
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Give it a rest, grifter. You admitted you had no business running even a tiny city let alone the world’s biggest economy.
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