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napoleon_in_rags

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4. Interesting idea from Hartmann.
Fri Jun 28, 2013, 04:14 AM
Jun 2013

As some one who's worked with real disabled people on one hand and seen welfare parasites on the other, I think if we could find a way to localise welfare intelligently it would do a world of good: If people could see the real disabled people their money was personally feeding, there would be no complaints, and they'd feel great about all they do. On the other hand, if people learned of welfare parasites collecting SSI while living off the taxpayers, they would be pariahs, instead of the status quo, where it seems an abstract crime against the distant "government" instead of against you and I, and they get left alone.

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Why Christians should be Socialists/Communists [View all] AProgressiveThinker Jun 2013 OP
Cool Video. I rec'd n/t rdubwiley Jun 2013 #1
Thanks man! I appreciate it! AProgressiveThinker Jun 2013 #2
Ironic that the most devout Christians ARE communists. ErikJ Jun 2013 #3
Interesting idea from Hartmann. napoleon_in_rags Jun 2013 #4
K&R newfie11 Jun 2013 #5
Not Communism pitbullgirl1965 Jun 2013 #6
Stalin's Soviet Union = State Capitalism RufusTFirefly Jun 2013 #7
Some are. Igel Jun 2013 #8
If a Christian chooses to argue this with you, C.S. Lewis said in "Mere Christianity"... rwsanders Jun 2013 #9
I'm a liberal christian BrainMann1 Jun 2013 #10
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