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mother earth

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4. Maybe INSTEAD of the corporate welfare plan we practice today, INSTEAD we could

Reply to bluerum (Reply #3)

Mon Mar 26, 2012, 08:45 AM

Mar 2012

promote education and actual health care, INSTEAD of rationing those things and promoting desperation, crime and ignorance, INSTEAD of families going bankrupt because someone gets sick, people who live their lives dependent on drugs because rehab is unobtainable...you get the picture.

Why not? Why do we have to stay locked into modern day slavery INSTEAD of thinking outside of the box, for something that could actually better the quality of life, instead of profit margins.

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Prosperity, not money [View all] txlibdem Mar 2012 OP

So can I sit on my butt and watch tv all day while you provide for me? dkf Mar 2012 #1

What will I provide once you have everything you need txlibdem Mar 2012 #2

Yes. An excellent idea, given that productivity has increased by 400% since the end of WW II eridani Mar 2012 #9

Why should education be free? bluerum Mar 2012 #3

Maybe INSTEAD of the corporate welfare plan we practice today, INSTEAD we could mother earth Mar 2012 #4

agreed th1977sk Mar 2012 #10

+1 txlibdem Mar 2012 #11

Do you mean like everywhere else in the civilized world? Fuddnik Mar 2012 #6

Maybe this from The Young Turks is the way to go OnlinePoker Mar 2012 #7

Absurd wishful thinking. n/t Johnny Rico Mar 2012 #5

TANSTAAFL Shagman Mar 2012 #8

We have them outnumbered by about 30,000 to 1 txlibdem Mar 2012 #12

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