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Entitlements - what's so bad about them?

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xongsmith
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04-07-2014 6:00 PM 		Reply to: Message 15 by Coyote
04-07-2014 1:09 AM

Coyote regurgitates:
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Another way of looking at it is: "The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money [to spend]." That was from Margaret Thatcher.
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This is a foul way to view our country.
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I'd say "The problem with unregulated capitalism is that eventually we run out of our own money [to spend]." Any kind of totalitarian pressure does this.
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xongsmith
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04-08-2014 2:01 AM 		Reply to: Message 36 by Coyote
04-07-2014 11:53 PM

No. It's about shared patriotism.
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