"There as a study in which it comes out that thirty of the largest companies in the United States are now spending more on lobbying than they pay in federal taxes. …Who really pays for that? And the answer is America’s middle class — they’re the ones who are left to pick up all the pieces, to pay the taxes to keep the country running. And, more to the point, they’re the ones who are paying for the fact that there’s not enough money left to invest in our kids’ future."
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Massachusetts Senate candidate ELIZABETH WARREN, on The Daily Show (via inothernews
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"I’m disillusioned by the people who are disillusioned by Obama, quite honestly, I am. Democrats eat their own. Democrats find singular issues and go, ‘Well, I didn’t get everything I wanted.’ I’m a firm believer in sticking by and sticking up for the people whom you’ve elected. If he was a Republican running, because Republicans are better at this, they’d be selling him as the guy who stopped 400,000 jobs a month from leaving the country. They’d be selling him as the guy who saved the auto-industry. If they had the beliefs, they’d be selling him as the guy who got rid of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,’ who got Osama bin Laden. You could be selling this as a very successful three years."
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George Clooney (via apsies
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"Being a leftist is a calling, not a career; it’s a vocation, not a profession. It means you are concerned about structural violence, you are concerned about exploitation at the work place, you are concerned about institutionalized contempt against gay brothers and lesbian sisters, hatred against peoples of color, and the subordination of women. It means that you are willing to fight against, and to try to understand the sources of social misery at the structural and institutional levels, as well as at the existential and personal levels. That’s what it means to be a leftist; that’s why we choose to be certain kinds of human beings."
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Cornel West
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"The late Steve Jobs — what a fitting name he had — created more of them than all of those stimulus dollars the President borrowed and blew."
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MITCH DANIELS, being funny.
Not ha-ha funny, but rather “Steve Jobs is dead, and his widow was a guest of the President’s tonight, and oh by the way where are most of those Apple ‘jobs’? Oh yeah, they’re in China, where a device that costs $499 before upgrades and taxes is built by a worker prone to commit suicide earning 35 cents an hour” funny.
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