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Wednesday August 01, 2012 · 6:53 AM PDT

2012/08/01 · 06:53

This will be short... you may feel free to criticise me, rightly so, for posting such a short diary. Likewise a diary that doesnt provide new facts (though that seems the norm now..)

A girl i used to datehad to leave two her kids with family. She's homeless now "living" with a guy who abuses her. I dont have the money to rescue her.

One of my best friends hasnt has barely scraped together money to feed his kids for the last two weeks because another friend gives him some work doing construction... ten or twenty hours a week at 10 an hour. They havent paid the rent in two months. Theyre supposed to get kicked out next friday. His children will go to his (EVIL) ex wife. He is trying to find a place for his Pregnant wife to stay. He plans on living in his car.

I have two female friends with kids who have lived with their families for two years and cant get a job. Cant do anything. They both suffer recurring depression.

I have other friends with things almost as bad.

Noone gives a flying shit about statistics or what the economidiots who helped create this disaster (and are still... doing just fine) have to say.

If things dont change SOON it's going to be the 1930's all over again.

cdreid

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Tuesday August 16, 2011 · 4:03 PM PDT

2011/08/16 · 16:03

Forgive the writing but frankly im not scared of much. And im scared right now.

Every doctor i have ever talked to in any capacity has been an exceptionally compassionate person. Whether right wing (which the ones i tend to meet are) or left on a personal level they are concerned and compassionate.

But that doesnt solve our problems.. doctors cant pay our bills or work for free. And HIR doesnt solve it either.

Ive warned against the HIR mania herefor a while... people are playing team sports and simply never read or understood the law. But honestly it didnt directly affect me except for the upcoming required deduction from my paycheck.

Now it does.

You see in order to get out of OTR trucking i eventually took a job as a driver at a moving company. That requires.. lots of heavy lifting (we dont just drive). That involves, as you may have guessed, lots of injuries. Injuries are so commonplace in my job that we regularly just cover for each other. We dont even bother mentioning pulled muscles or chronic injuries.

But i never worried about it til.. today.

cdreid for Economics Talk

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Wednesday March 30, 2011 · 5:58 PM PDT

2011/03/30 · 17:58

This is the first of a series of diaries i hope to post with the intent of educating the users of dailykos normally not particularly interested in the subject.

We americans have a rather bizarre relationship with words. Ask most americans, even kossacks, what "capitalism" means and they will use words like "freedom" , "entrepreneur", "free enterprise. We even have people arguing that it is the prime component of democracy. The reality is capitalism, especially the american flavor, is anything but.

To put it in the most simple and intellectually accurate terms capitalism is the borrowing, lending, and trading of money aka capital. Capitalism at its purest has no interest in business, in goods, in consumers or factories. It has no interest in rules, regulation, fairness, or creation. At its roots capitalism is purely a subset of Usery.

If you state that of course many, for the most part ignorant or illogical people will scream til the windows shatter. You should wonder why that is as capitalism is , indeed, just a word. They'll scream that capitalism is at the heart of all that is good about the west. That it brought freedom to the slaves and equality to women (yes.. they will literally argue that). And this is a central problem of american politics.

Capitalism is the borrowing and lending of money.

(more below).

cdreid

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Tuesday February 01, 2011 · 10:54 AM PST

2011/02/01 · 10:54

This diary will be too short. This will annoy people.

There is one thing. ONE thing we should all remember about what is happening in Egypt. Something that has been said before. Something we americans and westerners have forgotten. Its' below the fold.

cdreid

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Monday January 03, 2011 · 3:40 AM PST

2011/01/03 · 03:40

Let me tell you a story. It is a story of a transition in my life that was badly timed with the collapse of the american economy. A time when i thought i could stomach working in the bowels of a beast I reviled. It is the story of a mistake.

Ive had several careers. The last being trucking. It allowed me to see almost every city and town east of the mississippi. To understand how different and how alike we all are. It was with that mindset i took a job answering phone calls about peoples health insurance. As much as i reviled large corporations, office politics, insurance companies and the rest i reasoned that working in the belly of the beast wouldnt be so bad. That maybe i could help people. It was a scarring mistake.

cdreid

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Monday August 30, 2010 · 4:38 PM PDT

2010/08/30 · 16:38

There. Its said. And i have to tell you it feels good to finally say it. Because we reasonable moderates are tired of you damned professional leftists wanting your ponies. We're tired of you purity trolls nitpicking everything ~~our wonderful corporations~~ ~~Our dear president Bush~~ ~~real patriots like Sarah Palin~~ Barack Obama does!

Scroll down if you want to see all the problems you ~~irresponsible lefties~~ dirty hippies have caused.

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Lefties/progressives/liberals are

120 votes Vote Now!

Lefties/progressives/liberals are

The real patriots

57 votes

Racists who hate our beautiful leader and his really cute family!

9 votes

Americans with a god given right to question their leaders

22 votes

traitors

4 votes

the real problem

12 votes

racists

0 votes

did i mention racists?

1 vote

enemies of the state !

4 votes

wtf ever im watching scrubs reruns. This ones awesome

11 votes

Grow the f*** up. (And its META!)

cdreid

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Friday July 23, 2010 · 1:47 AM PDT

2010/07/23 · 01:47

I have been a part of the dailykos community since pretty much its inception. Long before big yellow and through some incredibly divisive fights. The primary wars were some of the worst. During that time we had a few diarists who became very prominent very quickly for posting the "party line" of their camp. Those of you who were here remember well. Those who werent.. let us just say this. Those diarists arent here anymore. They were either paid shills or bizzarely twisted one issue lunatics. We do not mourn their loss.

But i have never seen such emnity. I have never seen so much open dishonesty and blind hatred. I have never been revolted more than by the actions of many of the dailykos community.

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Piefights!

97 votes Vote Now!

Piefights!

Critics of the president hate black people!

9 votes

Anyone who praises the president is a fool!

10 votes

Critics are all republicans especially Huffpo and Dailykos!

0 votes

If you dont hate this president youre a fool!

4 votes

I miss the reality based community where we actually tried to see reality

63 votes

F you all

11 votes

I'm sick of it

cdreid

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Saturday March 13, 2010 · 5:07 PM PST

2010/03/13 · 17:07

Im sick of all the flat out bullshit being preached about health insurance on dailykos from the frontpage to the diaries. Sick of markos sudden change from committed activist to wouldbe kingmaker. Sick of people who know absolutely Nothing about economics or health insurance spewing mealymouthed drivel about how we should support this bill/bills we havent seen because it/the dont exist yet. Sick of people spouting bullshit about how forcing someone who cant pay car insurance should pay 2% of their income to Aetna/BCBS for a product to be determined later with a premium that can change at the whim of big insurance is "wonderful"

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Over the top?

90 votes Vote Now!

Over the top?

Yes . PIE TIME!

32 votes

No. This entire debate has become layered in bullshit

41 votes

We need to start over

15 votes

ITs all about the supreme court! Support this or we all DIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

2 votes

Its just too hard! Obama cant be expected..

cdreid

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Friday September 04, 2009 · 2:53 AM PDT

2009/09/04 · 02:53

This could be one of the singular moments in American history. One of those few moments in history when true human progress happens. The declaration of independance. The signing of the Constitution. Social Security. Equal rights. Healthcare reform is a step of such historical consequence.

Yet what do we hear from the Democratic party and the President? Its' just too hard. The right wing is just too dangerous. There is just too much pressure.

Let me introduce you to pressure.

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Are our party leaders under too much pressure to succeed?

48 votes Vote Now!

Are our party leaders under too much pressure to succeed?

Yes

1 vote

16 votes

We must recognise teh 11th degree chess!

4 votes

Its the radical lefts fault!

8 votes

Tar and Feathers for the lot of them

19 votes

An open letter to the people we elected

cdreid

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Wednesday August 26, 2009 · 10:22 AM PDT

2009/08/26 · 10:22

If you are reading this you are no doubt sitting in your office calculating how it affects you. As a professional politician as opposed to leader or patriot this is your job as you see it. You daily balance corporate contributions vs the level of anger they'll create amongst the voting class. You calculate what you should say, as opposed to what you actually do, to drum up support amongst the unwashed.

I'm going to make it clear to you where we will go from here after your work for, or against, Real healthcare reform.

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If we dont get REAL healthcare reform

50 votes Vote Now!

If we dont get REAL healthcare reform

We need to remove the faux dems who corrupted it

47 votes

We should support them anyway

3 votes

Space, the final frontier... (a fictional future economy)

cdreid

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Tuesday July 14, 2009 · 5:36 PM PDT

2009/07/14 · 17:36

We all love those words. Likely you just had a mental image of the Enterprise going into warp and heading to the stars. Like most of us you probably grew up with visions of sailing to the stars in some sort of spaceship launched from a world where problems like hunger, poverty and war were solved or nearly so. You looked forward to a world where poverty, injustice, corruption were things of the past and we were on a path to become the world society Star Trek promised us.

Then you became an adult. You started to understand how things work. You looked around and saw that such things have shocking costs. Costs we couldnt possibly afford. And a little part of you died. That sense of wonder. Of infinite possibility. After all, you're an adult now. Adults can see the "realities" and "hard truths".

cdreid

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Sunday July 12, 2009 · 9:33 AM PDT

2009/07/12 · 09:33

This is not a political diary. It's not an important diary. It will, in the course of human evolution, have nary an effect on the future of the universe.

This diary is "My list of things that are Incredibly Cool about the net".
So if you're looking for argument or intellectual heavy lifting.. probably not. If however youd like to show your fellow kossacks the incredible awesomeness that are your favorite places/things/beings on the net/about the net do it here.

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Is this diary silly

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Is this diary silly

Yes. You should be shot. But first whered you get the megacheap oscilloscope?

6 votes

Yes. Kindof like a lot of stuff on the rec list any given day

3 votes

NO! This information is vital to humanity!

6 votes

Puppies are awesome! and this is not a ridiculous pole put here for no apparent reason.

1 vote

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I'm sick of it

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An open letter to the people we elected

Space, the final frontier... (a fictional future economy)

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