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Fri Oct-07-05 06:47 PM
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3. Let me answer that in the same vein in which it was written... |
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"Oh, yeah? Listen, if I've been paying into this shithole of a government year after year, and taking it on the chin everytime the damn congress passes more and more laws that don't benefit me and probably actually injure me, then when I'M down and out, starving and thirsty, stuck in a hurricane-blown wasteland, the goddamned government BETTER get off it's goddamned ass and start EARNING ALL THE MONEY AND MISERY IT'S ALWAYS MADE ME PAY!!!
And the government sure as hell IS responsible for giving me sustenance in an emergency like that!! And if the government says it doesn't owe me anything, then I refuse to live under it, and it can just get the hell out of my native country!"
Incidentally, I know some people who were displaced by the hurricane. Their house was under water for 2 weeks--up to the ceiling. They've gotten some FEMA money, some Red Cross money, and some food stamps--all legal, proper, and above-board. These people were not poor. Yet they do not feel the least bit hesitant about taking all that they are legally entitled to--and I say, good for them.
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