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sinkingfeeling

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1. Excellent piece. Like this part...

Reply to hue (Original post)

Thu Aug 30, 2012, 12:50 PM

Aug 2012

"But a rich man has so many things done for him, because he pays for them to be done. Is that self-reliance, or is it expensive helplessness? And why is it not a stain of shame, or a “culture of dependency,” for a rich man, or his bank, to ask for help, and to be given it?"

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His Grief, and Ours (Paul Ryan�s nasty ideal of self-reliance. ) [View all] hue Aug 2012 OP

Excellent piece. Like this part... sinkingfeeling Aug 2012 #1

Yeah, Ryan is nasty all right. Zoeisright Aug 2012 #2

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