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In reply to the discussion: The new surplus - a mirage? [View all]

question everything

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5. Yes, can do with "less government" until we need it
Tue Mar 6, 2018, 01:18 PM
Mar 2018

Talk to all the deplorables in the rural areas, many of them depend on disability payments, food stamps, medical treatment but, hey, this is "different."

One would think that all these bible thumpers will remember the story of Joseph and Pharaoh. Pharaoh had strange dreams and Joseph ciphering was that seven lean years would follow seven years of plenty, thus he suggested to story the excess, the plenty, for the lean years.

And when Ryan said that "this is our money" I "yelled' at him that, no, this is money needed for infrastructure, and, yes, social safety nets.

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The new surplus - a mirage? [View all] question everything Mar 2018 OP
Remember what Ventura did, Wellstone ruled Mar 2018 #1
What did he do? I dont remember or know. Eliot Rosewater Mar 2018 #2
Played the refund game. Wellstone ruled Mar 2018 #3
Sounds like what he would do. Eliot Rosewater Mar 2018 #4
Yes, can do with "less government" until we need it question everything Mar 2018 #5
We are heading for a Economic Downturn Wellstone ruled Mar 2018 #6
Yup. I paid $3,300 MN estimated income taxes in December, wasn't going to pay anything, not even in progree Mar 2018 #7
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