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To: tejek who wrote (623729)	8/10/2011 1:05:55 AM
From: TimF	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576885

What you don't understand is that when gov'ts cut back, its the people at the bottom of the food chain who suffer the worst. Sometimes in the short run.. Other times the cut backs are for pork that goes to the middle class or wealthy. And in the long run big government harms everyone by reducing the growth and dynamism of the country (and also in many cases making a lot of poor people dependent) When people have nothing to lose. They have quite a lot to lose. The UK is no third world country or totalitarian communist state. And by rioting they do lose.

To: tejek who wrote (623729)	8/10/2011 2:03:31 AM
From: TimF	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576885

How Libertarianism Helps the Poor critical-thinker.net Thomas Sowell - Class Warfare Fallacies youtube.com

To: tejek who wrote (623729)	8/10/2011 9:52:43 AM
From: Jim McMannis	7 Recommendations Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1576885

Didn't you say this wasn't going to happen? news.yahoo.com Wis. GOP holds off Democrats in recall elections MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republicans held onto control of the Wisconsin Senate on Tuesday, beating back four Democratic challengers in a recall election despite an intense political backlash against GOP support for Gov. Scott Walker's effort to curb public employees' union rights. Fueled by millions of dollars from national labor groups, the attempt to remove GOP incumbents served as both a referendum on Walker's conservative revolution and could provide a new gauge of the public mood less than a year after Republicans made sweeping gains in this state and many others. Two Democratic incumbents face recalls next week, but even if Democrats win those they will still be in the minority. Turnout was strong in the morning and steady in the afternoon in communities such as Whitefish Bay, Menomonee Falls and Shorewood, where Sen. Alberta Darling was one of the four Republicans to hold onto her seat. Tony Spencer, a 36-year-old laid-off carpenter from Shorewood, voted for Darling's challenger, Democratic state Rep. Sandy Pasch. "I'm in a private union, so they haven't necessarily come after me," Spencer said. "But everybody should have the right to be in a union. I came out to stop all the union-bashing stuff." John Gill, 45, of Menomonee Falls, voted for Darling and questioned the opposition's anti-GOP rhetoric, which went far