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sabrina 1

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3. Thanks. That's pretty significant for a start. Hopefully it will become the norm until they

Reply to limpyhobbler (Reply #2)

Sat Nov 10, 2012, 07:56 PM

Nov 2012

get the message. They've had decades to destroy people's lives, first in the Third World, now they've run out of Third World countries to destroy and have moved to the First World.

Hopefully that will be their Waterloo.

It is obvious that the first target of these Austerity programs are Social Programs. They simply hate to see money being spent on people when it could be going to the Big Wall Street Casino making money for them.

I am glad people are rising up against them. Strikes work. Since they still need the services of the working class it is a powerful weapon to use against them.

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I can't understand how these draconian, cruel, anti-sovereignty, Austerity Policies sabrina 1 Nov 2012 #1

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Thanks. That's pretty significant for a start. Hopefully it will become the norm until they sabrina 1 Nov 2012 #3

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