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-- expanded wars, perhaps to new theaters at a time most Americans want them ended;
-- privatizing Social Security and Medicare, letting Wall Street racketeers exploit them for profit, scamming the public at the same time;
-- privatizing public education as well as increasingly at the university level;
-- trashing labor rights;
-- hanging American workers out to dry;
-- ignoring growing millions facing foreclosure;
-- letting poverty and unemployment spiral out of control;
-- yet eliminating unemployment compensation and other social benefits, saying they're "unaffordable;" tax cuts for the rich, however, will be maintained;
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