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greenbell commented on the diary post Stein/Rocky Except in Swing States? by fairleft.
Excellent! Maintaining ballot ccess for 2014 and 2016 is another reason to vote Green.
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greenbell commented on the diary post 2 Social Security Plans and Inequality: Black coffee and stale bread. by TomThumb.
Thanks very few Democrats understand how horrific the Bowles Simpson plan is. I can’t believe the willful denial.
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greenbell commented on the diary post I’m Disillusioned by the People Who Are Disillusioned by the People Who Are Disillusioned With Obama by EdwardTeller.
They learned nothing from 2010. All they had to do to get my vote was to take Medicare eligibility and COLA cuts off the table. Not that I am not totally with you on civil liberties too. It matters. They are not owed my vote. They need to come get it.
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greenbell commented on the diary post voting for Jill Stein in a swing state: a confessional by atasteofmyownmedicine.
Terrific diary. To appreciate how bad health care is these days our local TV reported that patients visiting a large well known clinic are being billed extra for having the temerity to ask questions. The insurance covers the 5 minute walk through but if the MD must pause to engage with the patient there is [...]
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greenbell commented on the blog post The Mysterious Economic Collapse in the Northeast
The Iowa economy has been helped by the strong farm economy. High commodity prices and $10000 an acre farmland build confidence.
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greenbell commented on the blog post The Hiding of Liberalism
I was just listening to Rendell tell us again that Obama is going after entitlements after the election. They don’t even pretend anymore. They take for granted that we are too cowed to even bother to care.
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greenbell commented on the blog post The Next Grand Bargain Negotiations Will Begin January 1
Essentially they are turning Social Security into a voucher to support the Medicare premium. It is hard for me to see how this becomes much different from the Republican plan in the end.
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greenbell commented on the blog post The Next Grand Bargain Negotiations Will Begin January 1
Yes this is why I am not voting for Klobuchar and Obama in November. I refuse to be a mark in the con game.
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greenbell commented on the blog post Social Security COLA Increase for 2013: 1.7%
The Democratic party has lost my vote due to their incoherence on Social Security and Medicare. If they cannot even stand up for these two core programs they’ve become utterly useless. The Republicans wave vouchers and privatize and Democrats seem to believe they have a mandate to do everything else – COLA cuts, raise eligibility age…
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greenbell commented on the diary post Why Has the Director of Minnesota’s Chief Anti-Marriage-Equality Group Suddenly Gone Silent on That Issue? by Phoenix Woman.
I wonder if the Church hasn’t gotten negative feedback. They sure did from me. Catholics have large extended families and gays seem to be turning up in more and more of them.
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greenbell commented on the diary post The List. Senators Who Did Not Sign Sanders Letter to Preserve Social Security. by TomThumb.
No we are talking about support for the gang of 8 rich white guys planning behind closed doors to shred Social Security and Medicare. My Senator Austerity Amy has expressed support for catfood in the past all gussied up with high faulting lingo about the deficit. The extremism on the right is giving bipartisan cover [...]
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greenbell commented on the diary post The List. Senators Who Did Not Sign Sanders Letter to Preserve Social Security. by TomThumb.
Everyone in Minnesota needs to know Amy Klobuchar refuses to support Social Security.
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greenbell commented on the diary post Governing without Consent of the Governed by masaccio.
I think it still helps to keep ALEC out of the legislature. Your senator sounds like mine. I must get 10 requests a day for money for President and Congress and none of them are even remotely responsive to my voting issues.
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greenbell commented on the diary post Governing without Consent of the Governed by masaccio.
I do not consent to cuts in Social Security or Medicare. I will vote 3rd party for President and Senate and for Democrats down ballot.
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greenbell commented on the diary post The Shivaree and Farming Community Wedding Customs Prior to WWII by Crane-Station.
But you have the Internet and probably some kind of smart phone. In the 50′s before cable, network TV was a national social unifier. We all saw the same news, the same pictures and the same products. And that fit for the generation united by war at least until till about 1968.
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greenbell commented on the diary post The Shivaree and Farming Community Wedding Customs Prior to WWII by Crane-Station.
You could see it breaking down in the 50′s. The war, TV, the GI bill, the mechanization of farming etc worked to loosen ties to ethnic communities. Farm kids like me wanted what we saw on TV.
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greenbell commented on the diary post The Shivaree and Farming Community Wedding Customs Prior to WWII by Crane-Station.
My parents had a shivaree after they were married in Iowa in 1947. Your description sounds similar to their local custom though I had assumed it was of ethnic Irish origin since everyone involved was ethnically Irish. I didn’t know this custom was more widespread in the rural US.
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greenbell commented on the blog post Obama Second Term = Grand Bargain
I have voted for every Democratic candidate for President since 1972 only to have Obama put Medicare eligibity age on the table as soon as I turned 60. Has he taken it off the table? Well I am not going to vote for that by accident.
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greenbell commented on the blog post The Problem With Obama’s Attack on Vouchercare
If Obama is still willing to raise Medicare eligibility age aren’t we moving slowly away from single payer? The ACA may be a Trojan Horse to eventually end Medicare.
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greenbell commented on the blog post Obama Will Vow to Cut the Deficit by $4 Trillion in DNC Speech
Austerity Amy assured Chris Matthews that she wants to cut the deficit and corporate taxes.
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