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ashling

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12. Your interpretation is spot on

Reply to lapislzi (Reply #11)

Fri Mar 14, 2014, 03:03 PM

Mar 2014

Try this quote on for size:

"If one man has not enough to eat three times a day
and another man has $25 million,
that last man has something
that belongs to the first"

-Mary Elizabeth Lease

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I pity the man ... [View all] ashling Mar 2014 OP

We have been there for a while Mr President liberal N proud Mar 2014 #1

the person who wants that coat that cheap is probably getting a pay, that reduces them to not eating seabeyond Mar 2014 #2

We as a group are now positioned by the powerful and wealthy Stargazer99 Mar 2014 #4

I prefer to think of it in a somewhat larger context lapislzi Mar 2014 #11

Your interpretation is spot on ashling Mar 2014 #12

Your spot on to the posters interpretation is me suggesting people HOPE others starve? seabeyond Mar 2014 #14

That's not what I said ashling Mar 2014 #15

Where in the world do you get me saying people so low as to HOPE others starve? seabeyond Mar 2014 #13

I didn't see that post as having said that at all. cui bono Mar 2014 #16

Funny, I pity the country... malthaussen Mar 2014 #3

+1 (unfortunately) n/t Catherina Mar 2014 #8

Wow, what an awesome quote!!! Thanks! nt Sarah Ibarruri Mar 2014 #5

this quote is actually real Enrique Mar 2014 #6

Actually, I pity NO man wants to be a rich man in a poor country Populist_Prole Mar 2014 #7

+10000 + more nt freebrew Mar 2014 #9

His record--Sherman Anti-Trust Act, National Forests, 50% duty tariff, Voting rights ErikJ Mar 2014 #10