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Old 10-05-2012, 02:28 PM   #1
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How do you sustain the levels of social programmes that they have, if you don't have any government income?
Wait for a hurricane, tsunami, volcano, eathquake, dubstep gangnam style, or other natural disaster to hit, then ask America for money.

OH yeah, the people from Greece with money don't live in Greece. They live in America.
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Old 10-05-2012, 02:45 PM   #2
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Wait for a hurricane, tsunami, volcano, eathquake, dubstep gangnam style, or other natural disaster to hit, then ask America for money.

OH yeah, the people from Greece with money don't live in Greece. They live in America.
The people you're talking about generally pay their taxes. There are lots of people, in Greece, who have money but don't pay their taxes.
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Old 09-28-2012, 03:49 PM   #3
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remember that guy on teh forums, where Spain was eutopia? land of endless trackdays and all girls were virgins, lol

anyways

it ain't like that any more.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/25/wo...oc.semityn.www

Spain Recoils as Its Hungry Forage Trash Bins for a Next Meal
Because this doesnt happen in every country in the world?

Spain was never the exception...Neither is America.

How about this shit...

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/26/wo...-in-spain.html

What do you think happens if thousands of Americans surround the white house?
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Because this doesnt happen in every country in the world?

Spain was never the exception...Neither is America.

How about this shit...

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/26/wo...-in-spain.html

What do you think happens if thousands of Americans surround the white house?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings x100... or more...
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Pretty much, I sure as hell wouldn't want to be there.
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I'd almost theorize that if we can't put armed soldiers at an embassy in a country that shot down US military aircraft 30 years ago and is ran by Islamic thugs who gained power by killing anything that moved that our White House isn't protected at all. But I doubt it.
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I'd almost theorize that if we can't put armed soldiers at an embassy in a country that shot down US military aircraft 30 years ago and is ran by Islamic thugs who gained power by killing anything that moved that our White House isn't protected at all. But I doubt it.
Another example of how we protect the decision makers and throw the people whose job it is to live with and enforce said decisions to the wolves.
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The richer we become the more freedom we seem to lose. Perhaps this isn't such a bad thing...or won't be 100 years from now....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=wsfwmzAZgOw
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The richer we become the more freedom we seem to lose. Perhaps this isn't such a bad thing...or won't be 100 years from now....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=wsfwmzAZgOw
Ever read Huxley's "Brave New World"?
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Ever read Huxley's "Brave New World"?
No, should I?
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