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TheMastersNemesis

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Mon May 28, 2012, 10:00 AM May 2012

I Am Becoming Embarrassed For My Country As A Veteran [View all]

I really wonder what I served for and why I served these days.

In Denver we will have an ordinance where it is technically illegal to be homeless in the city. If you down in public you will be arrested or harassed to move on. It is a new kind of vagrancy law.

If you want to vote you have to go through a gauntlet of paperwork and pay a fee so you can exercise your right.

If you are poor, have no work, unemployed, are old or sick, are a minority, you are a slacker and a thief on the public dole.

If you are public servant or a teacher you are a freeloader, a socialist or a communist.

If you are rich and a thief which most super rich are you are admired as a moral pillar of the community.

So many people in this country believe so much GOP and conservative crap that we are becoming unrecognizable as a compassionate nation.

The fact that a jerk like Romney is any kind of presidential material makes me sick. I would never salute that bastard except to give him the single finger salute.

Vets who have died in a country that would support the GOP policies have probably wasted their lives. A GOP AmeriKa in not America anymore.

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IT'S FRUSTRATING AS HELL, BUT DON'T GIVE UP ON US YET. madashelltoo May 2012 #1
Becoming? Fumesucker May 2012 #2
I knew since high school that a lot of WWII vets didn't understand just brewens May 2012 #3
My dad is a WWII Vet and he voted Obama and will again. This all from a glinda May 2012 #17
You are not alone. CrispyQ May 2012 #4
Romney is just another chickenhawk just like Cheney, Nugent Bush. SGMRTDARMY May 2012 #5
What? They simply had 'other priorities'. You got a problem coalition_unwilling May 2012 #6
I forgot SGMRTDARMY May 2012 #9
What, you say you had some other priorities yourself? Silly you! (Hope coalition_unwilling May 2012 #11
Oh absolutely I realize that your being 100% sarcastic. SGMRTDARMY May 2012 #15
I think they get indoctrinated into such thinking by the powers in charge ThomThom May 2012 #7
I have read many books about the perversion of America. dotymed May 2012 #8
+1 jaysunb May 2012 #19
Work to elect sane candidates--or run yourself. MADem May 2012 #10
Word Brother. Romeny is a clear example of how powerful corporations are pasto76 May 2012 #12
Why don't they just step it up a notch? harmonicon May 2012 #13
Wait...did you say there's an ordinance that makes it illegal to be homeless? Jamaal510 May 2012 #14
The Denver Ordinance Sadistic And Cruel. TheMastersNemesis May 2012 #20
i know someone who actually does believe SammyWinstonJack May 2012 #22
For a few people, it is a choice Art_from_Ark May 2012 #23
I'm contemplating a trip to my old home town of Denver... classof56 May 2012 #16
And for what? To transfer everything to the super-rich. AnotherMcIntosh May 2012 #18
Here's the thing, mahina May 2012 #21
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