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hunter

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12. If the boss says we can't do it, we can't do it.

Reply to Zalatix (Reply #11)

Wed Mar 14, 2012, 01:16 PM

Mar 2012

Until We the People throw the plutocrats out, the only capacity we have is to do what they tell us.

We're pretty docile as a nation. We don't say "no" when the plutocrats screw us.

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