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Friday, December 21, 2012

Milk Prices Likely To Soar In January After Republican Obstruction Blocked The Farm Bill In The House

Milk Prices Likely To Soar In January After Republican Obstruction Blocked The Farm Bill In The House
THINKPROGRESS | DECEMBER 21, 2012
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House Republicans let the five-year farm bill expire at the end of September without a new law to replace the massive measure ... Read more

The 10 Craziest Quotes From The NRA Press Conference

The 10 Craziest Quotes From The NRA Press Conference
THINKPROGRESS | DECEMBER 21, 2012
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1) Gun-free schools zones "tell every insane killer in America that schools are their safest place to inflict maximum ... Read more

10 Energy Numbers To Remember From 2012

10 Energy Numbers To Remember From 2012
THINKPROGRESS | DECEMBER 21, 2012
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by Barry Fischer, via Opower's Outlier Blog Sometimes energy makes headlines, sometimes it doesn't. But it almost always ... Read more

Boehner: Conservative Republicans Who Opposed Plan B Are ‘Drowning’ The Country

Boehner: Conservative Republicans Who Opposed Plan B Are 'Drowning' The Country
THINKPROGRESS | DECEMBER 21, 2012
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Less than 12-hours after Congress failed to pass the so-called Plan B, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) insisted that he has ... Read more

Federal Court Rules That Hobby Lobby Is Not Exempt From Obamacare’s Contraception Mandate

Federal Court Rules That Hobby Lobby Is Not Exempt From Obamacare's Contraception Mandate
THINKPROGRESS | DECEMBER 21, 2012
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A federal appeals court on Thursday rejected Hobby Lobby's appeal that the company be exempt from an Obamacare regulation ... Read more

Pope Benedict Uses Christmas Speech To Call Same-Sex Marriage A ‘Manipulation Of Nature’

Pope Benedict Uses Christmas Speech To Call Same-Sex Marriage A 'Manipulation Of Nature'
THINKPROGRESS | DECEMBER 21, 2012
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At his annual Christmas speech to the Vatican, Pope Benedict XVI called same-sex marriage a "manipulation of ... Read more

Pennsylvania GOP Revives Plan To Rig The Electoral College

Pennsylvania GOP Revives Plan To Rig The Electoral College
THINKPROGRESS | DECEMBER 20, 2012
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Two Pennsylvania state representatives are bringing back an ill-conceived 2011 plan to divvy up its electoral college votes by ... Read more

TIL the world was ending in 1806 because someone wrote "Christ is coming" on eggs and stuffed them back into the hen.

TIL the world was ending in 1806 because someone wrote "Christ is coming" on eggs and stuffed them back into the hen.
REDDIT TOP NEWS | DECEMBER 21, 2012
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53% of Americans now think the Republican Party is too extreme as opposed to 2010 when it was just 36% according to a recent study.

53% of Americans now think the Republican Party is too extreme as opposed to 2010 when it was just 36% according to a recent study.
REDDIT TOP NEWS | DECEMBER 21, 2012
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Twitter of God

On Friday, when I come down and start sending the far right-wing to hell, Fox News will ask if I'm anti-Me.

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Kitchen calamity: Reports of shattering cookware on the rise

Kitchen calamity: Reports of shattering cookware on the rise
TOP NBCNEWS HEADLINES | DECEMBER 21, 2012
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Debbie Parker of Pontiac, Mich., says she still can't shake the memory of Christmas morning brunch two years ago when the festive egg casserole she b... Read more

House Republicans Vote to Throw 300,000 Kids off Food Stamps In Order to Cut Taxes for Millionaires

House Republicans Vote to Throw 300,000 Kids off Food Stamps In Order to Cut Taxes for Millionaires
REDDIT TOP NEWS | DECEMBER 20, 2012
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Mosque Arsonist Says Fox News Inspired Him

Murdoch Tried to Buy US Presidency—Media Yawn - Carl Bernstein rips into coverage at Washington Post, elsewhere

http://www.newser.com/story/159688/murdoch-tried-to-buy-us-presidency-media-yawn.html

House Republicans Cut Food Stamps, Obamacare, And Wall Street Oversight In Ill-Fated ‘Plan B’

House Republicans Cut Food Stamps, Obamacare, And Wall Street Oversight In Ill-Fated 'Plan B'
THINKPROGRESS | DECEMBER 20, 2012
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House Republicans today, in addition to voting on Speaker John Boehner's (R-OH) so-called "Plan B" — ... Read more

Posted by a Christian group on Facebook. I was... pleasantly surprised.

Posted by a Christian group on Facebook. I was... pleasantly surprised.
REDDIT TOP NEWS | DECEMBER 20, 2012
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Former FL Republican Governor Crist testifies in Senate that there was voter suppression in Florida. "politically motivated and clearly designed to disenfranchise likely Democratic voters"

Former FL Republican Governor Crist testifies in Senate that there was voter suppression in Florida. "politically motivated and clearly designed to disenfranchise likely Democratic voters"
REDDIT TOP NEWS | DECEMBER 20, 2012
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Congress Is Quietly Abandoning the 5th Amendment. Meet the prominent legislators who think it's okay to throw Americans in jail forever without charges or trial.

Congress Is Quietly Abandoning the 5th Amendment. Meet the prominent legislators who think it's okay to throw Americans in jail forever without charges or trial.
REDDIT TOP NEWS | DECEMBER 20, 2012
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Inventing gods.

Inventing gods.
REDDIT TOP NEWS | DECEMBER 20, 2012
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"Atheists today are spending a lot of time and energy fighting a God they claim doesn't even exist." (facebook)

"Atheists today are spending a lot of time and energy fighting a God they claim doesn't even exist." (facebook)
REDDIT TOP NEWS | DECEMBER 20, 2012
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Report Shows Major Failure On Abortion Rights

Report Shows Major Failure On Abortion Rights
THE HUFFINGTON POST - MAGHREB FEATURED NEWS | DECEMBER 20, 2012
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If a 17-year-old girl in the state of Virginia needs to have an abortion, she has the option to bypass the state's ... Read more

Right-wing author: Jon Stewart part of the culture that led to shootings - Salon.com

Right-wing author: Jon Stewart part of the culture that led to shootings - Salon.com

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Thursday, December 20, 2012

Boehner’s ‘Plan B’ Cuts Taxes For The 1 Percent, Raises Them For The Poor

Boehner's 'Plan B' Cuts Taxes For The 1 Percent, Raises Them For The Poor
THINKPROGRESS | DECEMBER 20, 2012
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Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) is forging ahead with his plan to vote on his so-called "Plan B," a bill ... Read more

Olive Garden, Red Lobster See Sharp Drop In Profits After Anti-Obamacare Campaign Backfires

Olive Garden, Red Lobster See Sharp Drop In Profits After Anti-Obamacare Campaign Backfires
THINKPROGRESS | DECEMBER 20, 2012
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Ever since Darden Restaurants — the owner of the Olive Garden and Red Lobster chains — first announced its ... Read more

Iowa’s GOP Election Official Has Found Only 6 Examples Of Voter Fraud Out Of 1.6 Million Votes Cast

Iowa's GOP Election Official Has Found Only 6 Examples Of Voter Fraud Out Of 1.6 Million Votes Cast
THINKPROGRESS | DECEMBER 20, 2012
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During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday on voting rights in the wake of the 2012 election, Iowa Secretary of ... Read more

Charlie Brown Christmas -- revisited

The Truth About the Second Amendment

I told my first grade class they were writing their letters to Santa...I should have been more specific

I told my first grade class they were writing their letters to Santa...I should have been more specific
REDDIT TOP NEWS | DECEMBER 19, 2012
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Is this exactly what you mean?

Is this exactly what you mean?
REDDIT TOP NEWS | DECEMBER 19, 2012
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Mosque Arsonist Tells Judge: "I Only Know What I Hear On Fox News"

Mosque Arsonist Tells Judge: "I Only Know What I Hear On Fox News"
REDDIT TOP NEWS | DECEMBER 19, 2012
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The 'Fiscal Cliff' With Robert Reich

Interview:

CHART: The Global Corporate Tax Rate Plummeted In The Last Decade

CHART: The Global Corporate Tax Rate Plummeted In The Last Decade
THINKPROGRESS | DECEMBER 19, 2012
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Evidence that the global corporate tax rate has dropped significantly in the past decade counters a conservative myth that ... Read more

GOP governance

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Norquist Unintentionally Throws His Support Behind Democrats’ Middle-Class Tax Cuts

Norquist Unintentionally Throws His Support Behind Democrats' Middle-Class Tax Cuts
THINKPROGRESS | DECEMBER 19, 2012
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Grover Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform announced Wednesday that Speaker John Boehner's (R-OH) proposed ... Read more

Top Conservative Publication: Shooting Occurred Because Women Ran The School

Top Conservative Publication: Shooting Occurred Because Women Ran The School
THINKPROGRESS | DECEMBER 19, 2012
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If there were fewer women and more "male aggression" in Sandy Hook Elementary School, the massacre there never ... Read more

Thanks To Budget Cuts, U.S. Remains Unprepared To Combat Future Public Health Emergencies

Thanks To Budget Cuts, U.S. Remains Unprepared To Combat Future Public Health Emergencies
THINKPROGRESS | DECEMBER 19, 2012
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Despite numerous public health threats over the past decade — including bioterrorism threats like anthrax attacks, the ... Read more

To The GOP, Simpson-Bowles Budget Targets Go Out Of Style When Obama Proposes Them

To The GOP, Simpson-Bowles Budget Targets Go Out Of Style When Obama Proposes Them
THINKPROGRESS | DECEMBER 19, 2012
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The history of the Republican Party's relationship with the Simpson-Bowles debt reduction plan is a bit puzzling. Rep. ... Read more

origins of the earth

I'm a biology professor. My colleague, a geology professor, received this note on a test over the origins of the earth. Why do we even try?
REDDIT TOP NEWS | DECEMBER 19, 2012
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Grover Bends The Pledge For Boehner

Grover Bends The Pledge For Boehner
TPMDC | DECEMBER 19, 2012
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Grover Norquist's anti-tax advocacy group Americans for Tax Reform is giving House Republicans a pass for voting for House ... Read more

Harsh Benghazi Report Busts Right-Wing Myths

Harsh Benghazi Report Busts Right-Wing Myths
THE HUFFINGTON POST - FEATURED NEWS | DECEMBER 19, 2012
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WASHINGTON -- An investigation into the State Department's preparations for and management of the terrorist attack in ... Read more

Newt Gingrich Ties 'Anti-Religious' Forces To School Shooting

Newt Gingrich Ties 'Anti-Religious' Forces To School Shooting
THE HUFFINGTON POST - FEATURED NEWS | DECEMBER 19, 2012
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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich suggested on Wednesday that the Sandy Hook elementary school massacre was tied to ... Read more

Obamacare 'Is Null And Void And Of No Effect In This State'

Obamacare 'Is Null And Void And Of No Effect In This State'
THE HUFFINGTON POST - FEATURED NEWS | DECEMBER 19, 2012
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South Carolina is considering outlawing Obamacare. Five Republican South Carolina state representatives introduced a bill last week that, if passed, ... Read more

An outside perspective

An outside perspective
REDDIT TOP NEWS | DECEMBER 19, 2012
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Walmart Uses Bribes to Break Laws, Subvert Public

Another Ridiculous Tea Partier

Four power tips for Safari 6

Four power tips for Safari 6
MACWORLD | DECEMBER 19, 2012
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How often do you use your Web browser? If the answer is constantly, then a few choice tips could save you loads of time and ... Read more

Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Vatican Editorial Claims Gay Couples Exist In ‘A Different Reality’

Vatican Editorial Claims Gay Couples Exist In 'A Different Reality'
THINKPROGRESS | DECEMBER 18, 2012
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Monday's edition of Osservatore Romano, the official newspaper of the Vatican, features a front-page editorial attacking ... Read more

More Than 20 Percent Of U.S. Children Live In Poverty, Big Increase Since 2001

More Than 20 Percent Of U.S. Children Live In Poverty, Big Increase Since 2001
THINKPROGRESS | DECEMBER 18, 2012
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According to a new report by the Foundation for Child Development, child poverty in the U.S. has jumped from 15.6 percent to ... Read more

In unusually rare and blunt criticism of its top Mideast ally, the Obama administration has slammed Israel for continuing to announce new settlement construction on land claimed by the Palestinians

In unusually rare and blunt criticism of its top Mideast ally, the Obama administration has slammed Israel for continuing to announce new settlement construction on land claimed by the Palestinians
REDDIT TOP NEWS | DECEMBER 18, 2012
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Not complete crazy Minister about the Ct shooting

Not complete crazy Minister about the Ct shooting
REDDIT TOP NEWS | DECEMBER 18, 2012
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Scientists amazed at Canadians

Scientists amazed at Canadians
REDDIT TOP NEWS | DECEMBER 18, 2012
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The Four Horseman - Hitchens, Dawkins, Dennet, Harris [2007]

On Christianity 1.0: Zoroaster and Zoroastrianism

On Christianity 2.0: Religious Connectivity

So You Think You Know the Second Amendment?

So You Think You Know the Second Amendment?
THE NEW YORKER | DECEMBER 18, 2012
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Does the Second Amendment prevent Congress from passing gun-control laws? The question, which is suddenly pressing, in light of the reaction to the sc Read more

I became Christian at the age of 17, and passionately developed my faith for the next six years. Today, I've been an atheist for over one year. This .gif surprisingly summarizes my experiences very well.

I became Christian at the age of 17, and passionately developed my faith for the next six years. Today, I've been an atheist for over one year. This .gif surprisingly summarizes my experiences very well.

(To see the GIF animation, you need to click a link below to go to the source site...)

REDDIT TOP NEWS | DECEMBER 17, 2012
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Huckabee Steps Back From Wild Explanation Of School Shooting

Huckabee Steps Back From Wild Explanation Of School Shooting
THE HUFFINGTON POST - FEATURED NEWS | DECEMBER 17, 2012
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Former Arkansas governor and GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee continued to speak out on Monday about the recent school ... Read more

Monday, December 17, 2012

CNN Anchor Destroys Gun Advocate’s Call To Abolish Gun Safety Laws: Victims’ Families ‘Would Be Stunned’

CNN Anchor Destroys Gun Advocate's Call To Abolish Gun Safety Laws: Victims' Families 'Would Be Stunned'
THINKPROGRESS | DECEMBER 17, 2012
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The debate on gun control has been re-inflamed by the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT on Friday. ... Read more

Southern Baptist Minister Encourages Uganda’s ‘Kill The Gays’ Bill

Southern Baptist Minister Encourages Uganda's 'Kill The Gays' Bill
THINKPROGRESS | DECEMBER 17, 2012
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Though the Ugandan Parliament has adjourned until February, discussion continues about the infamous "Kill The Gays" ... Read more

How Online Giant Amazon Prevents Workers From Receiving Unemployment Insurance

How Online Giant Amazon Prevents Workers From Receiving Unemployment Insurance
THINKPROGRESS | DECEMBER 17, 2012
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If Congress doesn't act, two million workers will see their unemployment benefits disappear at the end of the year due to ... Read more

My College Professor's take on "God not being allowed in classrooms"

My College Professor's take on "God not being allowed in classrooms"
REDDIT TOP NEWS | DECEMBER 17, 2012
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Scalia’s Son: Don’t Label Kids ‘Gay’ Or It’s Harder To Condemn Them

Scalia's Son: Don't Label Kids 'Gay' Or It's Harder To Condemn Them
THINKPROGRESS | DECEMBER 17, 2012
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Now that the Supreme Court will be weighing in on the issue of same-sex marriage, the Justices' biases on the basic ... Read more

CIA Slammed For Torturing, Sodomoizing Wrong Man

War on Christmas: Christians Losing Culture War!

'Atheists Should be Punched in The Mouth' Says Christian Host

I finally had to say something on Facebook...

I finally had to say something on Facebook...
REDDIT TOP NEWS | DECEMBER 16, 2012
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Sunday, December 16, 2012

Why 2012 was the best year ever: never in the history of the world has there been less hunger, less disease and more prosperity

Why 2012 was the best year ever: never in the history of the world has there been less hunger, less disease and more prosperity
REDDIT TOP NEWS | DECEMBER 16, 2012
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'HOGWASH'

'HOGWASH'
THE HUFFINGTON POST - FEATURED NEWS | DECEMBER 14, 2012
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Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R), whose name is often mentioned as a potential 2016 presidential candidate, penned an op-ed in ... Read more

U.S. Should Automatically Register Voters: Attorney General.

U.S. Should Automatically Register Voters: Attorney General.
REDDIT TOP NEWS | DECEMBER 16, 2012
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GOP Rep Suggests Teachers Should Be Armed With Assault Rifles

GOP Rep Suggests Teachers Should Be Armed With Assault Rifles
THINKPROGRESS | DECEMBER 16, 2012
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A Republican Congressman suggested that had the teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary been armed with assault rifles, they could ... Read more

4 Reasons Why Boehner’s Latest Tax Offer Is A Bad Deal

4 Reasons Why Boehner's Latest Tax Offer Is A Bad Deal
THINKPROGRESS | DECEMBER 16, 2012
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Politico reported yesterday that Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) has proposed a tax increase in income in excess of $1 ... Read more

Leaked IPCC Draft Report: Recent Warming Is Manmade, Cloud Feedback Is Positive, Inaction Is Suicidal

Leaked IPCC Draft Report: Recent Warming Is Manmade, Cloud Feedback Is Positive, Inaction Is Suicidal
THINKPROGRESS | DECEMBER 16, 2012
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Ultra-conservative report still concludes sea level rise could reach 6 inches a decade by century's end! Deniers duped by ... Read more

"Godly Or Gaudy?" by Old Fart Rants

Poisoning the Well: How the Feds Let Industry Pollute the Nation’s Underground Water Supply

Poisoning the Well: How the Feds Let Industry Pollute the Nation's Underground Water Supply
PROPUBLICA: ARTICLES AND INVESTIGATIONS | DECEMBER 11, 2012
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Federal officials have given energy and mining companies permission to pollute aquifers in more than 1,500 places across the country, releasing toxic ... Read more

I wouldn't mind

I wouldn't mind
REDDIT TOP NEWS | DECEMBER 15, 2012
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Outrage After US Judge Says: "If she didn’t want sex, her body should've just shut down" & reduces sentence of attacker by 10 years. Judge Johnson was making the comments in the case of a man who threatened to mutilate the face & genitals of his ex-girlfriend with a heated screwdriver.

Outrage After US Judge Says: "If she didn't want sex, her body should've just shut down" & reduces sentence of attacker by 10 years. Judge Johnson was making the comments in the case of a man who threatened to mutilate the face & genitals of his ex-girlfriend with a heated screwdriver.
REDDIT TOP NEWS | DECEMBER 15, 2012
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If America ever goes broke, it won’t be because we tried to give everyone health care. Every industrialized country in the world does that and pays less. It will be because we direct trillions and trillions of taxpayer wealth directly into the pockets of private insurers.

If America ever goes broke, it won't be because we tried to give everyone health care. Every industrialized country in the world does that and pays less. It will be because we direct trillions and trillions of taxpayer wealth directly into the pockets of private insurers.
REDDIT TOP NEWS | DECEMBER 15, 2012
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