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Old 11-29-2010, 06:39 PM   #9
Backbeach Jake
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If there were equality between the average Joe and the leaders of this country most of our problems would be solved. As long as the jackasses in Washington put themselves on a pedestal and control their own wages and benefits, everyone else will continue to be screwed. They have no sympathy or empathy because they have no clue. They should have no greater benefits or income than the average citizen.

What do you bet that the guy who mopped the floors or cleaned the toilets gets 250,000? I bet his family gets brushed aside altogether.

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
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