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Originally Posted by MaggieL
Ah...but *you're* the one who wanted me to pay for my fifty-years-ago ice cream.
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Sure, why not? Going by your philosophy, the Feds took money from my hard working folks in Colorado and gave it to people you liked, so you could have a bridge over to the ice cream shop. What common good was that? Put your money where your mouth is if you can get the ice cream cone away from your face.
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Originally Posted by MaggieL
*My* priority is not making the Feds the solution to evey problem, and then whining when you discover they aren't. "The Feds" is *us*. We pay for it all. When we demand miracles, or indemnity from every misfortune or bad decsion, *we* pay the bill. Of course, the alternative theory is that the Federal government is properly a tool for removing money from people who have it and giving it to people you like, under the guise of "the common good".
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I thought Ayn Rand was cute when I first read her at age 16. Some of us get over it. Some of us don't. I have discovered that arguing with one of Ms. Rand's "true believers" is about as productive as arguing with one of Jim Dobson's. You got YOUR bridge and the hell with everyone else.
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Originally Posted by MaggieL
Not sure I get your point with the poster-children pic. And I'm *really* not sure it's neither staged nor photoshopped. ("Frank! Frank! You need to misspell one of the words; it doesn't look like real graffiti at all! Just leave the 'e' off of 'please'...we gotta shoot this, blog it and get outta here.")
I'm sure it "represents a higher truth" though.
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If there had not been real suffering and unnecessary deaths in N.O., the question of the picture's validity might have a point to it. Whatever the origin of that particular shot (which I just picked off google at random), it stands for the very real nightmare lived by the people of N.O.
The writing does not appear to be that of an illiterate person. If I was faking it, I'd have enough sense to not make it look so pretty, but who knows and who cares? Want me to find some pictures of dead bodies, instead?
BusterB, they probably broke into a store and looted those items. People were actually barred from leaving NO, if you'll recall, and ended up camped on the highways.