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We're the Government -- and You're Not
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We're the Government -- and You're Not

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvsADU2OOWM&NR=1
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A perfectly good example why we have SS.
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02-28-2009 11:40 PM
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So sad yet so true.


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Mr.Radiation Wrote:So sad yet so true.

Really? Half of that video was BS. There are other parties besides the Republicans and Dems on ballots. Obama's speeches are full of remarks encouraging people to live withing their own means, and, unless you live under a rock, everyone knows that people buying houses that they couldn't afford killed, not "propped up" they economy. Finally, considering that the US is based on freedom of speech, the last part of that video saying rebels who ask questions should be locked up is total BS.
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Not what they do I mean the way some people think. I'm sure most of the richfags out there would just love if this were true


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Greed = Death.
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What are you all doing on SS while you should be out and spending money that you don't have to make the government happy?
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War is Peace
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Decent video, although the tax thing was kind of stupid. The guy should have been poor so we'd at least feel sorry for him. Or just scrap it and stick something about gun control in there instead.
I think Buenaventura Durruti is a pretty cool guy. eh kills fascists and doesnt afraid of ruins.
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Like John Adams once said. "We study war and politics so that our sons may study math and philosophy"
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Slightly nice, but it's full of crap.
I don't think we should bully other countries, but leaving them to their own devices just screams "Oh, we can kill our own statesmen and YOU can't do anything about it!".

Libertarianism is idiotic.
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