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Recently our so called Speaker of the House was meeting with the Syrian government while our so called Vice President was on Rush Limbaugh’s radio show reminding the world that the so called Speaker of the House doesn’t speak for the United States in foreign policy. Foreign policy is the job of the so called President who doesn’t speak canada goose outlet los angeles to governments that don’t already agree with him.
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Scott, this post was absolutely brilliant and dead on. What an accurate yet funny summation of the benighted Bush administration and the Dems who enable it. However, you didn go far enough when you said, “For example, I’d like to see Congressmen and Congresswomen run across a field of rakes every morning to get to work. For me, it would only take a few rakes in the face per day to make me feel as if my tax dollars weren’t a complete waste.” [LOL!!] I also like to see Bush, Rove, Cheney, Rice, Gonzoles, and the rest of them run across the field of rakes, too on their way to and from work (if you can call what they do work). Maybe I wouldn get my taxes worth from it, but I at least feel a little better about seeing them get a little restitution for how badly they screwed the country, the Constitution, and the world at large.
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Again unless our government does something to finance the infrastructure there is no way anything is going to happen. Most states don take in near enough money to build the infrastucture on their own and the states don have the borrowing power of the federal government.
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As long as a terrorist is alive to target civilians or gangbangers are free to roam the streets to do drive by shootings nothing will change.”
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“My state a couple of years ago considered universal health insurance. It was estimated that it would cost every person $350 per month regardless of age. It was also reported that an 18 year old male could currently purchase health insurance for a cost of $80 per month. Yet under the left wing universal plans the 18 year old would need to pay 3 1/2 times more for insurance.”
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