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In rant on health care, Levin equated Senate Finance bill with "economic slavery"

October 14, 2009 1:37 pm ET

From the October 13 edition of Citadel Media's The Mark Levin Show:

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    • Author by pete592 (October 14, 2009 1:41 pm ET)
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      Conservatives want economic slavery to remain where they believe it belongs: with the military and medical industrial complexes.
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    • Author by all your eyes (October 14, 2009 1:51 pm ET)
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      Economic slavery? Like how millions of Americans can no longer afford to retire, or how fully qualified adults are working menial jobs all over the country? Ah, but how are the Wall Street types doing again? Just fine, with 15% capital gains.
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      • Author by Sharpe (October 14, 2009 1:59 pm ET)
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        Goldball Sachs had the biggest profit growth in the history of the company. And yet, repugs insist it was fannie and freddie and the middle and lower class and minorities taking out risky loans. The banks are supposed to be the victims in the right's twisted, misguided. Those poor banks that were forced by fannie in the 1970s to give loans to poor and minority citizens. It only took 30 years and numerous bills that resulted in more bank deregulation before we actually saw the effects of that one piece of legislation - one would have to be an economic genius to try to use the math to make that connection. Outside of that, we are just forced to hear media spout their rubbish about it. I won't feel sorry for goldman or citi or morgan stanley or bank of america for a single solitary second - I dont know how they don't get sick and vomit just trying to explain why it wasn't the banks fault.
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        • Author by pete592 (October 14, 2009 2:11 pm ET)
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          JPMorgan: $3.6 billion profit
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          • Author by Sharpe (October 14, 2009 3:43 pm ET)
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            Fox needn't be bothered reporting something as trivial as this little tidbit. Who cares if the same corporation they are trying to posit as a victim made 3.6 billion in profits after one of the worst recessions in American history or that America still maintain somewhere around a 10 percent unemployment rate while sachs rakes in their loot. I guess those poor people really learned their lesson and won't be going around forcing wall street to give them risky mortgages anymore (sarcasm). It is just so amusing that the key of conspiracy theories himself, glen beck just completely avoids this topic LIKE THE PLAGUE as FOX did with the gay march in DC to protest. Glen's favorite things in the world - convoluted theories about money and political sway and protests in washington and because they don't fall in line with the republican train of though, FOX and Beck just pretends this stuff doesn;t exist and this is why no one in their right mind should ever take fox seriously. Not only do they manipulate, create and become the news but they intentionally go out of their way to avoid newsworthy events that doesn't support their fear mongering. FOX has not one shred of dignity left to grasp onto.
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      • Author by Don Hussein Fabuloso (October 14, 2009 2:11 pm ET)
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        Economic slavery? Like how millions of Americans can no longer afford to retire, or how fully qualified adults are working menial jobs all over the country?


        Sure, allyoureyes, but those people can easily escape their slavery if they just pull up the bootstraps and work a little harder.It's those millionaires, banks and corporate CEO's who are being forced to endure the vicious punishment.

        OK, they're not really being forced. They could simply move to another country whose policies they prefer to the U.S., or quit their jobs, abandon their businesses and move into the woods, avoiding all taxes and restrictions, and forgoing all of the benefits they enjoy in this country.

        How can you compare those greedy working people who work hard and play by the rules, and just want to have a little security in their lives, with Levin's poor victims who find themselves handcuffed( meaning slightly regulated) when trying to make their 40th or 50th million?
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    • Author by Sharpe (October 14, 2009 1:53 pm ET)
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      Slavery, genocide and TORTURE!!!!! Slavery is horrendous. One of the cruelest practices in the history of America and torture is worse and the cruelest practice in the history of America (thank god the US never participated in genocide). The US elected an administration that redefines torture in order to use it. Slavery doesn't always involve physical pain or psychological anguish while torture does. Where is the criminal charges against this cruel and disgusting practice?? What are we going to just pretend it never happened? And immoral conservative dolts like Levin actually supported the use of torture and does not think anyone should be prosecuted for it.
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      • Author by shaggles (October 14, 2009 1:59 pm ET)
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        "thank god the US never participated in genocide"

        Some Native Americans might disagree with that belief.
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    • Author by shaggles (October 14, 2009 1:53 pm ET)
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      I don't completely disagree. I understand that this bill would make health insurance mandatory but doesn't limit what insurance companies can charge and doesn't provide a public option. The insurance industry opposes it because the fines for not buying their coverage isn't high enough! That's what they mean by "reform." Force everyone to buy our product but don't put any restrictions on us.
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    • Author by wzwriter (October 14, 2009 2:00 pm ET)
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      And listening to this numbnuts on the radio constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.
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    • Author by davemccarthymusic9410 (October 14, 2009 2:07 pm ET)
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      Of all the people out there who do what this guy does, INCLUDING BECK AND LIMBAUGH, this is the one whose presence on the radio astounds me. The leading example of "the sound and the fury, signifying nothing.

      He is the emptiest of suits.
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      • Author by Don Hussein Fabuloso (October 14, 2009 2:14 pm ET)
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        Re: Levin-- I wish MMFA would post transcripts along with the clips. It would avoid two things;
        Having to listen to this annoying, whiny voice.
        Having to fast forward the audio to get past the frustratingly slow pace that Levin uses to keep his idiot fans from slipping away.This is about 10 seconds worth of thought fluffed up to 7 minutes.
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        • Author by neon desert (October 14, 2009 2:41 pm ET)
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          And that thought was "I think I can fill the next 7 minutes with absolute inanity".

          After listening to this sped-up recording of a munchkin, I recognized that it was nothing more than another one of his generalized ideologic bumper-sticker enlarged to a king-sized quilt. It had absolutely NO substance, as seems to be Levin's mode. Laying out generalities in the style of writing his own constitution, a universal law that falls apart like a wet tissue if application of it would ever be attempted.

          I've heard sideline cheers that had more thought behind them than the drivel Levin spouts.
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    • Author by Boxer1979 (October 14, 2009 2:18 pm ET)
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      His free market concepts STINK! On his radio show he was playing a recording of Ronald Reagan talking about Medicare. HEY MARK, sorry to break it to you your president opened the doors really to deregulation of businesses that led to mess we are in right now!
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    • Author by caps off (October 14, 2009 2:29 pm ET)
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      Wow. So i guess I shouldn't have to pay the taxes that create the roads, water services, and electricity to the city I live in either. That's unamerican! I shouldn't have to pay the taxes that help to house and educate people in low income environments so they have a better chance of becoming a more useful member of society. Maybe I should't have to pay federal taxes that support a military conducting a war that I didn't approve.
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    • Author by dadre (October 14, 2009 5:16 pm ET)
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      I've gotta see levin's version of the constitution. Should be quite an interesting and scary read...hey it's gonna be Halloween soon.
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