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4. Yes. But. Poor people cannot be expected to pay for counterproductive preemtive wars of choice.

Reply to defacto7 (Original post)

Fri May 23, 2014, 04:22 AM

May 2014

Especially after the Wild West Wall Street gone crazy destroyed the economy. The Bush tax cuts should have expired as scheduled.

Dammit, Obama!

Oh, well. We can always cut entitlements. You know.

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