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Re:U.S. Consumer Bureau Loses Fight to Allow More Class-Acti... by wallace_f on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @08:19AM (#15549413)
What's crazy is that since Reagan the GOP is also fine with increased gov spending, among a host of other increasingly authoritarian policies.*

So no longer can they even claim to be anti government corruption & spending, and pro business & 'freedom.' They just appear to be 'anti people.'

But please don't pretend the Dems are a whole lot better on most of these issues... I really hope our generation can work together and do something about this failing two-party system.

*a short list: domestic surveillance, police militarization, civil forfeiture, anti net netruality, military expansion, pro Wall St, hand outs to healthcare lobbysits, etc..

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Re:U.S. Consumer Bureau Loses Fight to Allow More Class-Acti... by Chathamization on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @11:07AM (#15550724)
> But please don't pretend the Dems are a whole lot better on most of these issues... I really hope our generation can work together and do something about this failing two-party system.

Paying attention and voting accordingly is a pretty good solution. Unfortunately, almost no one does that (and it tends to be even worse at the local level).

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Re:U.S. Consumer Bureau Loses Fight to Allow More Class-Acti... by okreallywtf on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @12:07PM (#15551310)
Thanks for reminding me to go vote today ;)
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Re:U.S. Consumer Bureau Loses Fight to Allow More Class-Acti... by naasking on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @08:24AM (#15549435)
> They are just anti people.

Correction: anti-poor people.

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Re:U.S. Consumer Bureau Loses Fight to Allow More Class-Acti... by imglorp on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @08:59AM (#15549665)
> Correction: anti-poor people.

Correction: anti-middle class people. They can't extract any money from the poor, and clearly not from the rich, so guess who's left?

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Re:U.S. Consumer Bureau Loses Fight to Allow More Class-Acti... by poorrights on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @10:03AM (#15550191)
Actually, exploiting the poor is a rather lucrative business for the rich: check cashing, rent-to-own furniture, trailer parks, etc. https://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/opinionator/2013/09/17/maki...
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Re:U.S. Consumer Bureau Loses Fight to Allow More Class-Acti... by lr on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @11:10AM (#15550753)
Don't forget about using collection agencies to collect local government fines. Like, how a $30 parking ticket eventually turns into $1000 and ruined credit.
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Re:U.S. Consumer Bureau Loses Fight to Allow More Class-Acti... by poorrights on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @05:14PM (#15554335)
Oh for sure. That’s where the intersection with the court system comes in. Harsh laws and court minutiae are extremely harmful to the poor and help keep people in the cycle of poverty.
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Re:U.S. Consumer Bureau Loses Fight to Allow More Class-Acti... by yardie on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @10:36AM (#15550445)
You are both right. They exploit the poor by extracting from the middle. Meanwhile, the rich have moved their assets offshore or into anonymous properties.
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Re:U.S. Consumer Bureau Loses Fight to Allow More Class-Acti... by ifhd on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @03:33PM (#15553355)
> But please don't pretend the Dems are a whole lot better on most of these issues

They are, and people can demand they be better still.

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