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Old 05-18-2016, 01:48 PM
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Things such as this simply should not be allowed to happen and any economic system that allows them is morally bankrupt to the point of being evil. It should be completely done away with by any means necessary.

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Old 05-20-2016, 05:12 PM
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Pope Francis: To live on the blood of the people is a mortal sin

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Old 05-28-2016, 11:22 AM
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The American consumer is funding Big Pharm R&D to the benefit of the corporate* bottom line.


*Medical Industrial Complex
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Old 05-28-2016, 11:28 AM
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The American consumer is funding Big Pharm R&D to the benefit of the corporate* bottom line.


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So you have opted out of Medicare. I always laugh at you when you criticize the Military Industrial Complex....but you were a part of it.
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Old 05-28-2016, 09:34 PM
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Pfft. Pharmaceutical companies aren't supported to be fore profit businesses now? Feel the Bern!
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Old 05-28-2016, 11:38 AM
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I was a wage slave.

Was I a part of the MIC when working on reports looking into the Pension Benefit Guarantee Program or End Stage Renal Disease?
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Old 05-28-2016, 12:08 PM
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I was a wage slave.

Was I a part of the MIC when working on reports looking into the Pension Benefit Guarantee Program or End Stage Renal Disease?
If you are a Federal Worker you are part of it. If you audited military spending your position rested upon the fact there was a military to audit in the first place. I don't put down the MIC because I am retired Navy and work now as DOD civilian. I am not saying everything is fine about the MIC, but I realize it would wrong for me to put it down if I am drawing my existence from it. The GAO would not exist without the agencies it audits. There is no "good part" and "bad part" of the Federal workforce in my outlook.

Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, FERS,CRS are all interconnected. And millions of federal workers make those programs viable with their taxes, just as the rest of American workforce does.

Yes I am an asshole, as a drill instructor once said to me on my first morning in Navy boot camp.
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Old 05-28-2016, 12:19 PM
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If you are a Federal Worker you are part of it. If you audited military spending your position rested upon the fact there was a military to audit in the first place. I don't put down the MIC because I am retired Navy and work now as DOD civilian. I am not saying everything is fine about the MIC, but I realize it would wrong for me to put it down if I am drawing my existence from it. The GAO would not exist without the agencies it audits. There is no "good part" and "bad part" of the Federal workforce in my outlook.

Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, FERS,CRS are all interconnected. And millions of federal workers make those programs viable with their taxes, just as the rest of American workforce does.

Yes I am an asshole, as a drill instructor once said to me on my first morning in Navy boot camp.
Sounds like a personal problem.

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Sounds like a personal problem.

Without groups, the individual does not exist.
Wihout groups the individual is all that exists.
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Wihout groups the individual is all that exists.
If the individual is all that exists it is nothing.
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