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TomClash Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 03:39 PM
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"Change" is generic corporate marketing B.S.
The watchword of the year is "change." By itself, it is so bereft of any real meaning it becomes meaningless. It is the perfect vehicle to create the illusion of difference without any real difference at all. It's a new product, reduced to nothingness by "branding" and brought to you by . I'm already sick of it.

Do we want real change? Real change means what exactly?

Here's the change I want: a raise in the minimum wage to $10/hour, a cap on CEO compensation, restoration of the cap gains tax to the highest PIT rates, a repeal of AMT, a middle class tax cut, an immediate comprehensive energy policy with an emphasis on alternative energy development, all troops out of Iraq asap, repeal of much of the USA Patriot Act, single payer health insurance, fair trade, diplomacy before destruction,acceptance rather than just tolerance of others and much more.

What kind of "change" do you want?



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DJ13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 03:44 PM
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1. What kind of "change" do you want?
True change with a new direction.

Another Clinton in the White House wont be change, it will be a return to the usual politics of division.
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elehhhhna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 04:23 PM
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2. I prefer "restoration" to "change", personally
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IndianaJones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 04:25 PM
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3. how about a Reaganesque uniter? nt.
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catnhatnh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 05:00 PM
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4. Complete senate trials.....from the 30's thru Watergate thru...
Iran-Contra thru today....Indictments for Bush1,Bush2, and the corpses of Gerry Ford and the "20 Mule Team" Borax Pusher(Mr.Change).Secondary prosecutions for their little war-mongers and killers and their enablers and their liars...But Im harsh like that. It's time to tell ourselves and the world the dirty little secrets we've hidden since Smedley Butler tipped FDR to their first attempted coup d'etat....
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