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Old 04-22-2016, 05:14 PM   #8
xoxoxoBruce
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One of the reasons those other civilized nations are living large, is we've spent so much blood and treasure playing world cop so they could use their resources for better things. This has had a secondary effect of promoting the military industrial complex employing a lot of voters who wish to perpetuated it, along with the paranoids who feel we need it more than safe infrastructure.
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