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13. Right --the hardest thing is realizing that this is the intent

Reply to Major Nikon (Reply #9)

Tue Mar 8, 2016, 10:30 AM

Mar 2016

That people are deliberately kept on the treadmill permanently.

It really COULD be different if this country invested in its people and worked FOR them.

You get so tired and feel so powerless. And that's what they want.

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