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denverbill

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15. You think poor people are getting a lot of food that is shipped by air?

Reply to synapticwave (Reply #14)

Fri Apr 26, 2013, 11:26 AM

Apr 2013

The only foods I'm aware of that are shipped by air are fresh seafood and high end produce and I guarantee you poor people aren't exactly eating a lot of either of those.

If I want to eat fresh lobster flown directly in from Maine to Denver, I should damned well expect to pay the full cost of the food, and not expect hard-working taxpayers to subsidize my luxuries.

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because poor people benefit from well run airports too synapticwave Apr 2013 #14

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