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To: george76
I said a while ago that BO will help people pay their mortgages as a way of getting reelected. I am sooooo ticked off. The best way to help people pay for their mortgages and their RENT is to get people back to work. God help this country.
11 posted on 07/07/2011 9:09:54 AM PDT by LuvFreeRepublic (Support our military or leave. I will help you pack BO!)
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To: LuvFreeRepublic

only certain minority groups are allowed to benefit.

flyover country applications are DOA.


12 posted on 07/07/2011 9:12:14 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: LuvFreeRepublic

Well, people need to be reminded that this is like getting tipped by someone who robbed you. Takes some of the sting out of it, to be true, but wouldn’t it have been better had the robbery not happened at all?


15 posted on 07/07/2011 9:17:05 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Hawk)
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To: LuvFreeRepublic

On Vote-buying:

“The America of my time line is a laboratory example of what can happen to democracies, what has eventually happened to all perfect democracies throughout all histories. A perfect democracy, a ‘warm body’ democracy in which every adult may vote and all votes count equally, has no internal feedback for self-correction. It depends solely on the wisdom and self-restraint of citizens… which is opposed by the folly and lack of self-restraint of other citizens. What is supposed to happen in a democracy is that each sovereign citizen will always vote in the public interest for the safety and welfare of all. But what does happen is that he votes his own self-interest as he sees it… which for the majority translates as ‘Bread and Circuses.’

‘Bread and Circuses’ is the cancer of democracy, the fatal disease for which there is no cure. Democracy often works beautifully at first. But once a state extends the franchise to every warm body, be he producer or parasite, that day marks the beginning of the end of the state. For when the plebs discover that they can vote themselves bread and circuses without limit and that the productive members of the body politic cannot stop them, they will do so, until the state bleeds to death, or in its weakened condition the state succumbs to an invader—the barbarians enter Rome.”
— Robert A. Heinlein


20 posted on 07/07/2011 9:21:49 AM PDT by flowerplough (Bammy: It frustrates me when people talk about government jobs as if somehow those are worth less.)
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To: LuvFreeRepublic
The best way to help people pay for their mortgages and their RENT is to get people back to work.

The best way for people to get back to work is to reduce the multi-year unemployment benefits, welfare, subsidized housing, food stamps, free education, free phones, and free cars with free AAA, insurance and repairs.

Kick the illegals out of the country and there will be a lot of jobs available. Nobody will take them as long as they're getting a free ride on the gravy train.

26 posted on 07/07/2011 9:37:01 AM PDT by ladyjane
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