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To: steve harris who wrote (699288)	2/15/2013 9:44:08 PM
From: SilentZ	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575429

>And the policies you espouse have failed because............. Usually because they're ended or obstructed by your side of the aisle. Three great cases in point: -LBJ's War on Poverty didn't end poverty, but it cut it in half in like a decade. CONSERVATIVES ended it. Today we don't even use the word "poverty" in polite company. -Before Social Security came into being, half of seniors died in poverty. Thanks to Social Security, seniors are now the least likely age group to live in poverty. CONSERVATIVES publicly called it Communism for decades, and now they still do so only in their own circles because most people like it! -Medicare: In 1965, Reagan put out a record (backed by GE -- who you now call "liberal") saying that it was the end of freedom in America. But it's been so successful that in public, your "savior" Jesus Rubio just had to go on TV and call it a program "close to his heart." >Does it make you feel better to tell yourself I don't want to help people? No, it puts you on the "stupid" side of the equation I mentioned in the last post. You've been convinced that things that are, at best, set up to help the people who least need to be helped, are the things that help everyone. Perhaps you only care about helping those people. I don't know. But that's the way it seems. You're lying, you're stupid, or you're just being a troll and have done so for like fifteen years. Which is it? I'd like to think it's one of the last two because sometimes you show some semblance of a decent nature. But there are no other conclusions. Sorry. -Z