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The Hunger Games Are Real
AFL-CIO ^ | 11/22/2013 | Jackie Tortora

Posted on 11/22/2013 2:09:08 PM PST by mdittmar

"The Hunger Games" are real. If you're familiar with the books and movies, or have at least heard of the "Hunger Games" phenomenon, you're probably aware that the series tackles some pretty serious issues of poverty and economic inequality that hit way too close to home. If you're not, here's some background. 

"The Hunger Games" takes place in the fictional world of Panem, which is a dystopian North America sometime in the far off future. All the wealth in the country is concentrated in the Capitol and people in the 12 districts are constantly in fear of starvation. Everything the people in the districts produce, whether it is coal, grain, machinery or clothing, is controlled by the Capitol. People are forbidden to hunt or grow their own food, thus relying on the Capitol's meager grain and oil rations.

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Hmm?,Haven't seen The Hunger Games,kinda sounds like the obama administration.
1 posted on 11/22/2013 2:09:08 PM PST by mdittmar
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Hmm?,Haven't seen The Hunger Games,kinda sounds like the obama administration.

Sounds like a socialist workers' paradise. Which is to say, it sounds like the 0bama administration.

3 posted on 11/22/2013 2:11:30 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: mdittmar

Does Mr. Trumka look like he's missed a lot of meals?

4 posted on 11/22/2013 2:13:40 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet ("Of the 4 wars in my lifetime none came about because the US was too strong." Reagan)
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To: mdittmar

Why just yesterday I forced two bums to fight to the death over half a twinkie I found behind the seat of the truck.

sheesh.


5 posted on 11/22/2013 2:16:24 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: mdittmar

You visit AFL CIO dot org?
Really?
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http://www.aflcio.org/Issues/Health-Care
“Health care is a basic human right.
America’s labor movement has worked for more than a century
for guaranteed high-quality health care for everyone.
The Affordable Care Act is a historic milestone on this journey,
but we still have a long way to go.”


6 posted on 11/22/2013 2:16:52 PM PST by Repeal The 17th (We have met the enemy and he is us.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Dicky Trumka is a self-avowed communist. He is an enabler, and has protection from the effects of the societal “transformation” he is helping engineer.


7 posted on 11/22/2013 2:18:43 PM PST by SatinDoll (A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN: BORN IN THE USA OF USA CITIZEN PARENTS)
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To: mdittmar
And the bigger and more powerful the government becomes, the more real Hunger Games get. Government doesn't produce a thing and creates poverty by leeching money from people and restraining the free market. Of course government's answer to the failure of government and socialism is...MORE government.

Our answer: fire the politician bums and get taxes lowered to a permanently low flat rate. That's the only language these bums understand. A thriving free market economy is the best anti-poverty program known to man.

8 posted on 11/22/2013 2:19:23 PM PST by PapaNew
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To: mdittmar
I respectfully submit that this thread is useless without pictures of Jennifer Lawrence.


9 posted on 11/22/2013 2:20:00 PM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
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To: mdittmar

The Health Care Games: winner gets to see the doctor first.


10 posted on 11/22/2013 2:20:05 PM PST by DTogo (High time to bring back The Sons of Liberty !!)
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Exactly. The AFL-CIO has been one of the biggest advocates of concentrating even more wealth in the Capitol. They help do BO's dirty work.

The middle class is the biggest enemy of liberal Utopian schemes to concentrate ever greater political power in ever fewer hands.

And since, by extension, traditional stable marriage has been the key to membership in the middle class, the Democrat war on the middle class must necessarily include a war on traditional marriage.

11 posted on 11/22/2013 2:20:27 PM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Bump for Later


12 posted on 11/22/2013 2:23:06 PM PST by VRW Conspirator (Obama is a proven liar, an admitted liar, an unrepentent liar.)
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To: mdittmar

A rerun of the Stalin administration’s policies in Ukraine.


13 posted on 11/22/2013 2:24:33 PM PST by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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Whoa. . .for a sec there, I thought you wrote “hump” for later.

Whoa. . .

;-)


14 posted on 11/22/2013 2:25:17 PM PST by Hulka
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
It has Elizabeth Banks as well.
15 posted on 11/22/2013 2:26:49 PM PST by EEGator
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To: mdittmar

key line of 2:

remember who is the real enemy

They’re pitting the low to moderate income people of the country who work AGAINST those who have fallen into welfare dependency. Our enemy is not really the other poor bastards. Our enemy is the powers that be.


16 posted on 11/22/2013 2:27:45 PM PST by Redmen4ever
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Yow!,I may have too see it.


17 posted on 11/22/2013 2:28:48 PM PST by mdittmar
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

I’d buy her a cheeseburger!


18 posted on 11/22/2013 2:29:53 PM PST by Dr. Ursus
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To: mdittmar

In the books, the Hunger Games sound just like Agenda 21, where people live in these enclaves (districts), and the land outside of these districts are vast areas of land that have been returned to the wild (rewilding).

Panem is the name of the fictional nation, and it derives from the Latin phrase “panem et circenses”, which literally translates into “bread and circuses”.


19 posted on 11/22/2013 2:31:42 PM PST by ConjunctionJunction
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To: Hulka
Whoa. . .for a sec there, I thought you wrote “hump” for later.

Only on Wednesday!

20 posted on 11/22/2013 2:31:55 PM PST by VRW Conspirator (Obama is a proven liar, an admitted liar, an unrepentent liar.)
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