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Shemp Howard

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18. You could very well be right.

Reply to OldRedneck (Reply #16)

Fri Dec 12, 2014, 01:44 PM

Dec 2014

But I wanted to see some linkage here between the handouts and Jindal.

In a way, I suppose I'm looking at a bigger issue. Consider the Occupy Wall Street situation. OWS was filled with good people trying to do what they thought was right. But in that mass there were a few troublemakers, a few people who wanted destruction for destruction's sake.

The right pointed at those few troublemakers, and used them to unfairly smear the entire OWS movement. As a fair-minded person, that really bothered me. And it's worth noting that perhaps the same sort of thing is happening here.

As an aside, I'm not equating Jindal to OWS. Jindal is in many ways a hapless fool. OWS was noble, and in some respects it represented the last best hope for reform in this country.

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It all depends on who is handing out the handouts. Shemp Howard Dec 2014 #14

Bullshit OldRedneck Dec 2014 #16

You could very well be right. Shemp Howard Dec 2014 #18

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