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[digitaldiscipline]

This, right here, is why I think anyone making under a hundred grand a year and voting for the GOP either hates themselves, or doesn't understand economic policy.

Or, they're voting on social issues [read: abortion] that tend to be played up by the right wing, in which case, this sort of argument has no traction anyways.

After all, the reason the [right] winger crowd can’t find a way to be coherently angry right now is because this country has no healthy avenues for genuine populist outrage. It never has. The setup always goes the other way: when the excesses of business interests and their political proteges in Washington leave the regular guy broke and screwed, the response is always for the lower and middle classes to split down the middle and find reasons to get pissed off, not at their greedy bosses, but at each other. That’s why even people like [Glenn] Beck’s audience, who I’d wager are mostly lower-income people, can’t imagine themselves protesting against the Wall Street barons who in actuality are the ones who fucked them over. . . . -- Matt Taibbi

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[ruefullyamused.livejournal.com]

~ 6 billion. Luckily we live in the World's Greatest Arms Supplier, so they should be cheap enuf, right? *eg*

[ilcylic.livejournal.com]

Actually, that's China.

[ruefullyamused.livejournal.com]

I was going by the numbers in this article, but if China can supply 6 billion rounds cheaper, huzzah!

Despite Slump, U.S. Role as Top Arms Supplier Grows (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/07/world/07weapons.html?_r=1&hp)

[ilcylic.livejournal.com]

I suppose I should have been less terse. China has better plant capacity than we do for small arms production.

[timswar.livejournal.com]

well yeah, but if you really need to wipe out 6 billion there's nothing better than good ole USA killing technology to do the job.

[ilcylic.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but I'd want to be able to live here afterwards. Fallout sucks.