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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (271687)	12/3/2009 12:37:33 PM
From: cnyndwllr	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) of 281500

"Entitlement is a MORE POWERFUL FORCE than anything you've ever seen. Because entitlement represents self-realization as an individual. And that individual begins to realize they have individual rights, and not just rights that are arbitrarily bestowed upon them by a particular ruler." Who feeds you this outlandish and childish tripe? "Entitlement" is a far less powerful force than survival and a whole host of other factors. If, in fact, you satisfy the needs of most people they would gladly trade away their freedom to choose and happily embrace any "particular ruler" who "bestowed upon them" food, sex, health care, housing, freedom from crime, etc. But keep on advocating for policies based on the flawed assumption that abstract things like "entitlement" are of paramount importance to people who are struggling to survive and feed themselves and whose main hope for a better life is an afterlife. Creating failed policies based on an inability to emphasize with the real life situations of people "not like you" has, after all, been a trademark of your neocon lights. Ed

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