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Old 01-07-2013, 07:38 AM   #1
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you don't "need" a 6 dollar latte at an internet cafe, you use your EBT card to purchase that latte because you feel that you are entitled to a latte at someone else's expense or you've just become so accustomed to living at someone else's expense that it doesn't even occur to you that someone else is paying for your latte...
It was a Joke Scott...Geesh

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Old 01-07-2013, 07:48 AM   #2
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It was a Joke Scott...Geesh
I got it....but it is symptomatic...wouldn't you say?
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/p...nvj2RwpsEDS7MN
metaphor for steak and lobster at the checkout line at Market Basket courtesy of EBT ....I'd refer back to the better living through foodstamps commercials that the government was targeting various groups with and the explosion of foodstamp recipients...it's prevalent right through the income stratus but breeding dependency begins with the most likely dependent(s)....good humor is always reality based but the reality of that joke isn't so funny really ...I'd argue that the growth of the entitlement culture and bureaucracy and dissolving of our social framework coupled with the inability to distinguish between right and wrong, needs and wants, rights and entitlements will have a much more significant impact on our future than the argument over which guns and ammo to ban....but the argument for the next few months will be about guns apparently...priorities

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Old 01-20-2013, 12:02 PM   #3
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Machine guns R needed to rob convience stores in Massachusetts..

were the three men that used machine guns licensed to have them????

Bet cha not
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Old 01-20-2013, 12:38 PM   #4
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Machine guns R needed to rob convience stores in Massachusetts..

were the three men that used machine guns licensed to have them????

Bet cha not
Isn't that sort of the point? People who rob convenience stores don't get licenses. Those who get licenses, tend not to rob stores. If neither got licenses, would't the results be much the same? If the majority of citizens of a state want licenses to be required, that's their concern, not the Federal Government's.
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Isn't that sort of the point? People who rob convenience stores don't get licenses. Those who get licenses, tend not to rob stores. If neither got licenses, would't the results be much the same? If the majority of citizens of a state want licenses to be required, that's their concern, not the Federal Government's.
How many illegal guns started off as legal guns?
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