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NCTraveler

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13. Wanted to add that there are some forward thinkers in congress.

Reply to NCTraveler (Reply #12)

Wed Jan 30, 2013, 01:43 PM

Jan 2013

And they are given a chance to speak. Then after a crisis they are looked up to as someone that should have been listened to. Sometimes these people even beg congress to act, telling them that there is a crisis around the corner. But each time, congress will wait until we turn that corner.

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