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To: Kartographer
grim personal outlooks on a number of issues like jobs, retirement and health care

Huh? Wait a minute. Obama just gave you free healthcare last year, and the Dems just "saved" social security from the nasty Republicans. Why is everyone so grim????? Could it be that people are finally waking up and understanding that an ever-expanding state doesn't mean that they are taken care of?

2 posted on 08/01/2011 8:36:52 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

I started to write twice that the takers may be figuring out that the payers well is running dry.

The payers are surely figuring out that the takers will never stop willingly.

Some are figuring out that you can’t pay bills on promises, smoke and mirrors and you can’t eat hope and change.


7 posted on 08/01/2011 8:42:39 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Half the people are below average.)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

Entwined with economic gloom, I think people are finally realize that the government is just taking away our freedom inch by inch. Toilets, light bulbs, cars, bank account fees - you name and the government makes everything harder and more expensive.

I am very pessimistic and it has less to do with unemployment and interest rates and more to do with federal overreach and eroding of my liberty. But that’s just me.

Maybe people are finally beginning to realize that a government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you have.


12 posted on 08/01/2011 8:50:13 AM PDT by iceskater (I am a Carnivore Conservative - No peas for me. (h/t N.Theknow))
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

It’s all ‘investment’ you see....


17 posted on 08/01/2011 9:07:15 AM PDT by relictele (Pax Quaeritur Bello)
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