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jtuck004

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25. I look back over history and look at the lives and blood and money that has

Reply to AnneD (Reply #24)

Fri Jul 12, 2013, 03:22 PM

Jul 2013

been spent to secure oil for us to drive and live with, at the huge taxpayer subsidies the oil companies are pocketing even today, trumpeting huge profits, and then think about the people voted into office trying to find their lowest common denominator as a human being by denying food to hungry people.

USA! USA! USA!

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