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64. and how WE'VE PAID for these bloodsuckers profits

Sun Sep 23, 2012, 06:37 AM

Sep 2012

If I recall the show correctly he also talks about how they've milked us for tax breaks upon subsidies etc etc etc ....this was a good and interesting segment - definitely worth a listen.

Like energy, telecommunications should be nationalized. THOSE ARE OUR RESOURCES. Instead, the bloodsuckers make their "profits" from gouging us and sweet deals with the tax-man, lawmakers and regulators.

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