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Glorfindel

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2. Sad but true

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Fri Jan 25, 2013, 11:46 AM

Jan 2013

The people of the American south (no, of course not every one of us!) are their own worst enemies. I never cease to be amazed by the willingness of "the north" to subsidize "the south" while being hated a villified by the recipients of the largesse. The Repuke "congressman" who represents the Mississippi Gulf Coast actually voted AGAINST helping the victims of Superstorm Sandy.

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