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The Black Public Sector Middle Class Teachers, Policeman, Firemen, And Post Office Workers, Those Jobs Have Been On The Decline But There Hasn't Been A Corresponding Increase In The Private Sector. What Is Especially Painful Is Government Policy Bailed Out The Banks Without Making Them Make Reinvestments For Rebuilding. The Result Is 53-million Americans Are Food Insecure, 50-million Americans Are In Poverty, 44 Million Are On Food Stamps, 26 Million Are Looking For A Job.

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Jesse Jackson

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The Black Public Sector Middle Class Teachers, Policeman, Firemen, And Post Office Workers, Those Jobs Have Been On The Decline But There Hasn't Been A Corresponding Increase In The Private Sector. What Is Especially Painful Is Government Policy Bailed Out The Banks Without Making Them Make Reinvestments For Rebuilding. The Result Is 53-million Americans Are Food Insecure, 50-million Americans Are In Poverty, 44 Million Are On Food Stamps, 26 Million Are Looking For A Job.

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We Are Organising Our Enemies Into A Formidable Force, We Are The Us Public Has Turned Against The War, The Republicans And Democrats Have Turned Against The War. And So When The American Public Turns Against The War And The Congress Turns Against The War, It Suggests That Americans Feel We Cannot Win That War In Those Conditions. So The Iraqi Commission Says, "well, We Can't Win This War Militarily, We Need To Reassess Potential Allies." There's Syria, There's Iran.

When The Doors Of Opportunity Swing Open, We Must Make Sure That We Are Not Too Drunk Or Too Indifferent To Walk Through.

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The Invasion Only Made Matters Worse. The Occupation Will Not Work, Iraq Is Unoccupiable, That Will Not Work.

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I Want To Cut His Nuts Off.

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