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workinclasszero

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3. Already is huh?

Reply to world wide wally (Reply #2)

Tue Dec 6, 2016, 08:17 PM

Dec 2016

I read the reasons why a guy that lives in the coal region in WV voted for Trump.

He said he had nothing to lose.

I thought, except...social security, medicare, food assistance, ACA, veterans benefits, SSI, etc, etc, etc.

But the republican controlled government will remind him about all that soon no doubt.

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