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Do you want to know why Hugo Chavez was so popular with his people even though he was bordering on Dictator? His country is mostly poor and he taxed the rich and gave it to the poor. Free stuff buys support no matter where you go.

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How did we become a society of what's in it for ME instead of a society of community?

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Can't afford White House tours? How about no more golf outings?

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Two things you cannot depend on Groundhogs and Politicians.

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Nothing fries my grits faster than a new yankee transplant telling us how we should do things.

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This fascination with the sex of Kate's baby is out of control. In the overall scheme of things, WHO CARES! GET A LIFE PEOPLE.

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Congress had to cancel the hearings on global warming today because of the snow storm.

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Tens of Billions of US dollars spent and lives lost or damaged in Iraq for what?

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I forget...why are we fighting Afghanistan? And what happens if we win? (whatever a "win" would be).

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If the medical profession is in such dire financial straits, why is there a new medical office building going up on virtually every corner?

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If the smartest vent is at the bottom, you must be reading upside down.

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The stock market: What goes up must come down!

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Looks like Mother Nature did what the Republicans couldn't...shut down Washington.

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We all benefit from tax money. Why can't we just enjoy it and stop begrudging some old person getting a free meal or a child getting a vaccination? How did we get so selfish and un-Christian?

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Blue states do enjoy the services the government provides while the anti-government red states rank the lowest in education, health care and everything else.

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Everyone pays for the uninsured. It's called helping others less fortunate than yourself. Read your Bible .

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Women, along with every minority group, voted overwhelmingly Democratic. But the GOP has the old, rich, white guy vote nailed.

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Almost every program controlled by states become overwhelmingly corrupt. Federal oversight is needed just to keep local governments honest.

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Conservatives as a group seem to hate change. Perhaps that's why they generally oppose the concept of evolution.

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Jack Lew and the White House proposed the sequester and Republicans passed it hoping that it would never come to fruition. Republicans thought they would win the White House and get everything they wanted. Lew and the White House thought a wave of common sense might catch the GOP.

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