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Old 03-19-2014, 10:35 AM
 
Location: midwest
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"The reason socialism never took root in America is because the workers see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."

- John Steinbeck
So was Steinbeck saying that workers were stupid?

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Old 03-19-2014, 10:55 AM
 
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So was Steinbeck saying that workers were stupid?

psik
Worse than that.
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Old 03-19-2014, 11:09 AM
 
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So was Steinbeck saying that workers were stupid?

psik
Not stupid, naive.
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Old 03-20-2014, 11:07 AM
 
Location: South Bay
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So you also agree that Obama has made a buffoon of himself many times as well... right?
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I don't care what he looks like either. Bush just happens to hold the record in that area.
That wasn't an answer, just more of the same broken record. Would you agree that Obama has made a buffoon of himself many times as well?
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Old 03-20-2014, 11:29 AM
 
Location: South Bay
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Originally Posted by Ecstatic Magnet
"The reason socialism never took root in America is because the workers see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."

- John Steinbeck

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So was Steinbeck saying that workers were stupid?
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Worse than that.
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Not stupid, naive.
Are you serious? You really don't understand what he was saying?
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Old 03-20-2014, 11:53 AM
 
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Originally Posted by Ecstatic Magnet
"The reason socialism never took root in America is because the workers see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."

- John Steinbeck


Are you serious? You really don't understand what he was saying?
High hopes, man.

High hopes.

Hope on a rope, or something.

Obama tightened the noose.
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Old 03-21-2014, 09:35 PM
 
Location: Old Town Alexandria
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Allen Dulles

Dulles, a career spy, Wall Street lawyer, the CIA director whom JFK had fired after the 1961 Bay of Pigs fiasco - and the Warren Commission member who took charge of the investigation and final report - is reported to have said,
Don't worry,The American people don't read."
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Old 03-23-2014, 12:23 AM
 
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“I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.”
--- Thomas Sowell
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Old 03-23-2014, 07:25 AM
 
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Why is it that when asked for ONE political quote, people have to cut and past 50 of them off the internet?


Really annoying.
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Old 03-23-2014, 10:41 AM
 
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Because it's really the "Post Inane Bull**** That Fuels Partisan Inferno Thread."
That's ex post scato!
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