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To: koan who wrote (758946)	12/20/2013 9:22:18 PM
From: jlallen	Respond to of 1577883

LOL!!! What a maroon!

To: koan who wrote (758946)	12/20/2013 10:03:15 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	5 Recommendations Recommended By Bonefish Brumar89 mel221 steve harris TimF Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1577883

Koan, here's the difference between conservatives and liberals. Conservatives don't think anyone ought to be given special treatment or protection. Liberals do. Liberals think that anyone who doesn't agree with them must be waging "war" against those the liberals are trying to help. That's arrogance no matter how you slice it. Tenchusatsu

To: koan who wrote (758946)	12/21/2013 10:14:08 AM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Recommended By steve harris Respond to of 1577883

Dems oppose school choice in order to keep people poor and ignorant. Every slum in America is run by Democrats.

To: koan who wrote (758946)	12/21/2013 10:26:39 AM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Recommended By FJB Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577883

Prince Otto von Bismarck, father of modern welfare state liberalism .... The official U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) website devotes a full page to Bismarck, pictured with his Pickelhaube (spiked helmet) and walrus moustache. The copy reads, in part: "Germany became the first nation in the world to adopt an old-age social insurance program in 1889, designed by Germany's Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck. Read more: americanthinker.com Follow us: @AmericanThinker on Twitter \| AmericanThinker on Facebook

To: koan who wrote (758946)	12/21/2013 10:44:26 AM
From: Brumar89	2 Recommendations Recommended By FJB TimF Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1577883

Back at the beginning of the 20th century, only 15 percent of American families had a flush toilet. Not quite one-fourth had running water. Only three percent had electricity and one percent had central heating. Only one American family in a hundred owned an automobile. By 1970, the vast majority of those American families who were living in poverty had flush toilets, running water and electricity. By the end of the twentieth century, more Americans were connected to the In...ternet than were connected to a water pipe or a sewage line at the beginning of the century. More families have air-conditioning today than had electricity then. Today, more than half of all families with incomes below the official poverty line own a car or truck and have a microwave. This didn't come about because of the politicians, bureaucrats, activists or others in "public service" that you are supposed to admire. No nation ever protested its way from poverty to prosperity or got there through rhetoric or bureaucracies. It was Thomas Edison who brought us electricity, not the Sierra Club. It was the Wright brothers who got us off the ground, not the Federal Aviation Administration. It was Henry Ford who ended the isolation of millions of Americans by making the automobile affordable, not Ralph Nader. Those who have helped the poor the most have not been those who have gone around loudly expressing "compassion" for the poor, but those who found ways to make industry more productive and distribution more efficient, so that the poor of today can afford things that the affluent of yesterday could only dream about. -by Thomas Sowell