This forum is the only reason I haven't left DU.

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15. In the OP's defense,

....people ARE already dying....Right-this-Minute,
all to protect the profits of the giant corporations and Too-Big-to-Fails
because our Political leaders are so intertwined with the interests of the 1%
they lack the courage to bite the hand that feeds them.

40,000 Americans will die this year due to lack of Health CARE.
MILLIONS MORE will be condemned to barely surviving as frightened wage slaves,
indentured to low paying, no benefits "employment" in our Race-to-the-Bottom.
Brand New "Free Trade" treaties were approved by Congress last week,
and a HUGE NEW Free Trade Extravaganza is in the works (Pacific Rim).

"Oh...but we have been assured these new treaties will contain "protections" for the environment and LABOR."... Laughing and crying at the gullibility of Americans.

This is TODAY.
RIGHT THIS MINUTE,
and while Wall Street has recovered nicely,
110% of that recovery went into the pockets of the 1%,
as the Working Class/Working Poor couldn't even break even...
ALL by design.

The OP has some genuine points.

Would you prefer a slow painful death,
or a quick mercy killing?