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eridani

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14. Not hardly. What we are is underserved.

Reply to girl gone mad (Reply #9)

Tue Jan 3, 2012, 12:26 AM

Jan 2012

We don't get from our taxes what taxpayers in other developed countries do, like education through college, health care, family allowances and a far more generous retirement. Instead we piss it away on maintaining a useless military empire.

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