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Rex

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18. This country seems to live on reduced standards year after year.

Reply to Octafish (Original post)

Thu Jan 14, 2016, 06:32 PM

Jan 2016

And worse, the PTB shrug it off like it is no big deal. It will be one day, when it is far too late to make any kinds of inroads into fixing the problems that were easily fixable if only someone would have cared to do their job.

Money trumps everything Octafish...until it doesn't and that day will be hell on earth for everyone.

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