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Originally Posted by Tom Joad
Yeah, it's really extreme to expect the United States of America and the State of Florida to come through with the retirement benefits that they promised me and for which I exchanged the best years of my life.
And it's also really extreme to think that the United States of America can provide all of it's citizens decent healthcare like all of western Europe, Canada, Hell even fucking Cuba.
No, we can't afford that.
All we can afford is one useless wasteful trillion dollar war followed by another plus another trillion or so to bail out Wall Street because they made some bad bets with other people's money. That's reasonable.
But what I want, that's extreme. 
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Stop bothering me - I'm counting $.
And then I'm going to read myself to sleep with Twain's
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.
Adios.