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WindRiverMan Donating Member (693 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-17-09 09:12 PM
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Pick two out of the three.......
I told my bitching Republican co-worker today the following:

You cannot have a strong, imperialistic, military with a world presence; social programs, and LOW TAXES.

You may pick two out of the three, but they may not be the same two out of three the rest of country desires.



Shut him right up.
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billyoc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-17-09 09:21 PM
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1. Wow, I'm surprised. Most of them have been conditioned to say throw out the social programs.
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Booster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-17-09 09:29 PM
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2. A whole lot of them are on the social programs after Bush.
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BlueJazz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-17-09 09:41 PM
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3. AMEN!....To the average person, it's call Welfare..To Corporations, it's "Stimulus help"
ARRRGG!
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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-17-09 10:24 PM
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4. I like it. Short and simple. Directly to the point. I hope it becomes a meme.
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rufus dog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-17-09 10:29 PM
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5. I think if you take out imperialistic
you can have all three.

The part that drives me crazy with Repubs is they always say we should run the Gov't like a business. But when military cuts are brought up they are off limits. So you take your largest variable cost item off the table!
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grantcart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-17-09 10:43 PM
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6. Or you could add a fourth, police and safety, in which they could pick three out of four

and that one if picked would include police, fire and 2 million incarcerated prisoners.
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Honeycombe8 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-17-09 11:17 PM
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7. Well, "low" is relative, anyway. What I consider low taxes for a millionaire, he may not.
The upper crust DO have low taxes, after deductions. And yes...THEY can have all three things. Difference is that they may not consider 15% taxes after deductions as low. I do.
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