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Silhouette Man makes a couple of good points (Original Post)
TalkingDog
Jan 2013
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Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)1. K&R
Sums it up rather well, nothing I can add to such an eloquent presentation.
LeftofObama
(4,243 posts)2. K & R!
tclambert
(11,085 posts)3. How would you get educated people to vote for a Bush or a Santorum?
or a Palin, Romney, Perry, Bachmann, etc.? You see, education indoctrinates people to become liberals. You see many college kids at Tea Party rallies?
Chorophyll
(5,179 posts)4. Nope, out here on the wild frontier, it's every man for hisself (sic.)
Why should I pay for other people's children to go to college? Git off my property. Kaboom.
(Sorry. Just feeling very, very bitter about our state of affairs this morning.)
Very big K&R for this post.
LiberalEsto
(22,845 posts)5. Why? Because the 1% WANTS us to live this way.
They want a society of struggling serfs who are grateful to labor for minimum wage at Mall-Wart, the alternatives being the military or prison.
valerief
(53,235 posts)6. America makes rich people richer. That's all it wants to do. It wastes people to do that. nt
idwiyo
(5,113 posts)7. K&R brilliant