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merrily

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20. Yep

Reply to TexasBushwhacker (Reply #19)

Thu Jan 16, 2014, 10:31 PM

Jan 2014

I don't know why they got rid of it.

They got rid of it for the same reason they let corporations off so easily and rarely go against the officers and directors at all. It's the plutocrat's world. We're just living in it and funding it with our tax payments

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