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mahina

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5. Exactly.

Reply to ladym55 (Reply #2)

Mon May 28, 2012, 11:03 PM

May 2012

It makes me think about what it really means to me to be an American.

It's about opportunity for everybody, fair play, taking care of what we have been entrusted, understanding that if my tax money helps educate poor kids, my whole society is improved. If we have old people who are hungry, that diminishes me. If we have a thriving healthy community, that enriches me.

They seem to be about money for them, only. They're almost two-dimensionally selfish.

No more! Not a god damned inch.

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