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Tue Apr 8, 2014, 04:41 PM Apr 2014

"Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?"

Ben Stein proves again that an actor with a monotone is a blithering idiot.

Ben Stein: End Poverty By Abolishing Church/State Separation

Submitted by Miranda Blue on Tuesday, 4/8/2014 4:36 pm

In an American Spectator column last week, conservative pundit Ben Stein argued that Americans living in poverty aren’t really poor because “they almost always have indoor plumbing,” and in any case they just “envy” the wealthy and are victims of their own “self-sabotage.” He adds that federal policies can’t address poverty, and that instead what’s needed is an end to the separation of church and state: “What will make the genuinely poor stop sabotaging themselves? Maybe, just maybe, if we let God back into the public forum it would help. I have seen spiritual solutions work miracles.”

- See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/ben-stein-end-poverty-abolishing-churchstate-separation#sthash.BsyzseLt.dpuf

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"Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?" (Original Post) Archae Apr 2014 OP
I have this urge to go shit on Ben Stein's front lawn... Jeff In Milwaukee Apr 2014 #1
Yea, just keep opening your mouth to prove you're an asshole tech3149 Apr 2014 #2

tech3149

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2. Yea, just keep opening your mouth to prove you're an asshole
Tue Apr 8, 2014, 07:28 PM
Apr 2014

I spent a good part of my working life in churches and from my experience most of those God fearing people were more than hard working. They were brutally hard working. One other thing they were is poor. Not just poor but dirt poor. The thing I had a hard time understanding is that they held no blame for anyone for there poverty and hardship.

Ben Stein is an asshole and always has been. Except for Ferris Bueller I wouldn't spend ten seconds of my life paying attention to anything he has to say.

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