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SHRED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-24-05 12:10 AM
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Spending half a trillion...
...on the military-corporate-complex in Iraq and RW CONs don't bat an eye.

If we were to spend a portion of that to fund rebuilding our schools and to provide a Universal Health Insurance system, the RW CONs would be screaming "socialism".

Why do they hate America so much?
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-24-05 12:15 AM
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1. They think defending the country is important. Governing the people is not
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MadisonProgressive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-24-05 12:16 AM
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3. The rate we're going there soon won't be much left to defend
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MadisonProgressive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-24-05 12:15 AM
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2. And we are 8+ TRILLION in debt!
and that goes up by over 2 billion a day on average...
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