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boutons_deux
12-02-2010, 08:30 PM
(here are the choices, which to you agree with, at least more than the other??

A. Big government, bureaucrats, and the cultural and intellectual elites who back them.

B. Big business, Wall Street, and the powerful and privileged who represent them.
Parker2112
12-02-2010, 08:39 PM
C. Big government and bureaucrats OF ALL FLAVORS (Obama and Bush) purchased by big business and wall st donors (big oil goldman sachs).

DiNg dInG DiNg!!!

THEY ARE ALL OWNED, BUDDY.
ElNono
12-02-2010, 09:15 PM
All of the above
TeyshaBlue
12-02-2010, 10:35 PM
I'm pretty sure this thread ain't working out as planned.:downspin:
MannyIsGod
12-02-2010, 11:01 PM
C. Big government and bureaucrats OF ALL FLAVORS (Obama and Bush) purchased by big business and wall st donors (big oil goldman sachs).

DiNg dInG DiNg!!!

THEY ARE ALL OWNED, BUDDY.

But not the people who put them into power right?
:rollin
Parker2112
12-03-2010, 12:25 AM
No those folks are just keeping their head down hoping they get to keep the little slice of pie they still have in front of them.
boutons_deux
12-03-2010, 02:47 AM
Here's the communist anarchist guy and article that posed the quiz:

The Big Economic Story, and Why Obama Isn't Telling It

So B is closer to the truth.

But A is the story Republicans and right-wingers tell. It's a dangerous story because it deflects attention from the real problem and makes it harder for America to focus on the real solution -- which is more widely shared prosperity. (I get into how we might do this in my new book, Aftershock.)

A is also the story President Obama is telling, indirectly, through his deficit commission, his freeze on federal pay, his freeze on discretionary spending, and his wavering on extending the Bush tax cuts for the rich.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-reich/post_1362_b_790614.html?view=print

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The VRWC buys and controls the message and the dialog, and of course it's totally, self-servingly false, and perfectly substitutes false, lower priorities for the real problem and priority: broad-based economic expansion that creates jobs.