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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (749227)10/24/2013 5:37:58 PM
From: SilentZ1 Recommendation

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bentway

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>All they accomplished was successfully filling out an application. Even the mainstream media noticed that there are no numbers regarding how many people actually got health care plans.

Because there can't be. The plans can't be counted until money changes hands, which can't happen until January 1st.

>If she were working on a for-profit project, she would have been fired, albeit with a generous severance package.

How many bank execs were fired for saying stupid or insensitive things in the wake of the financial collapse? Few. That exec would not be fired at nearly any large corporation if she had any political clout at all in the company.

-Z