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sd_matt

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New Eharmony Post, Wait til you read this!!! Posted: 11/19/2009 10:18:26 PM
I receive much more responses from eHarmony than from POF. Unfortunately that number from eHarmony is a very small. About 5 percent respond. No dates after about five months of paid service. I had one date but messed up the schedule. Ok so I had one date. I think the net is best left for masturbation, not dating.

sd_matt

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Health care Posted: 11/14/2009 7:24:49 PM
Yeah, we should socialize only where there is consensus or close to it. Personal opinion.

sd_matt

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Housing tax credit costing more than it help. Posted: 11/14/2009 7:08:59 PM
I think the sheeple will get slightly smarter for a generation or two then go back to the status quo. I have nothing to back this except my gut.

sd_matt

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Housing tax credit costing more than it help. Posted: 11/10/2009 9:40:49 PM
Keynes has as many critics as he does supporters. I am more inclined to listen to those who were predicting this collapse 2003 and earlier. Dean Baker, Nouriel Roubini, Peter Schiff ect... and seeing what they say in common. That is a more common sense approach.

sd_matt

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Housing tax credit costing more than it help. Posted: 11/10/2009 6:50:08 PM
LOL. We shall see. Where does your model come from? The NAR?

sd_matt

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Housing tax credit costing more than it help. Posted: 11/10/2009 6:13:23 PM
Either way it is bad policy. It only delays the unavoidable.

sd_matt

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Housing tax credit costing more than it help. Posted: 11/10/2009 5:53:21 PM
Yeah I read what you copied and I see what you are saying about where he got the estimates. The only links I see are what Husker put up. So what would be the best guestimate of future sales? Case Schiller?

sd_matt

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Housing tax credit costing more than it help. Posted: 11/10/2009 5:06:06 PM
Yeah post the link please. I'll read it. The NAR's estimate (no doubt an optimistic one) doesn't exactly indicate an efficient use of taxpayer money. So for now I stick to my original premise.

sd_matt

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Msg: 78 (view)

CA Real Estate (#2) Posted: 11/10/2009 4:20:43 PM
Truebloo I read DHB also. He makes a strong case for an outright crash. Check out Piggington.com. The Piggs seem to go back and fourth between a big crash in 10 and a slow, government-induced, decline. Golfcoast From what the Paul Reveres are/were saying the blood in on the hands of both parties for this financial mess. And if it were just the Dems doing the raping then the Reps (except for a small handfull) seemed to be doing the equivalent of standing on the side and watching while playing with themselves. Another fun side note. Maybe we can make similar bet on how many more bubbles can be blown up before the sheeple get it. Infinity is not allowed as an answer. And here's something more to cheer you all up!! Ron Paul's HR1207 was gutted. The linky; http://www.foxnews.com/search-results/m/27238682/hr-1207-gutted.htm Oh well. Who is John Galt?

sd_matt

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CA Real Estate (#2) Posted: 11/10/2009 3:41:01 PM
I think Dudness speaks wisely in his earlier post. He echoes the ones I call the Paul Reveres. Peter Schiff, Nouriel Roubini, Dean Baker, Robert Schiller....there are more. The blogs Piggington.com and Doctorhousingbubble talk about this in depth. And they too were calling this bubble for what it was. I am going to wait until '10 at least to see if a new round of crony programs will turn this upcoming Alt-A tsunami into a long downward decent. On a related note for fun we can place bets on whether or not the media will be paid to stay silent about the supposed "shadow inventory" or will they go for the story. Personally I think it is a fun wild card to think about. Imagine the general public getting wind of this. Would they wait out the banks ( and cause them to fall) or will government knock them off the fence with with a $30k tax credit?

sd_matt

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Ron Pauls HR 1207. Will your rep sign it? Posted: 11/10/2009 2:27:09 PM
Elmenreich You won't like this. I hope he can successfully reintroduce the bill in it's original incarnation. I will back him. http://www.americanbankingnews.com/2009/11/01/ron-paul-bank-connected-democrat-mel-watt-strips-h-r-1207-of-almost-everything/

sd_matt

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Housing tax credit costing more than it help. Posted: 11/10/2009 2:12:38 PM
Mermaid I think we should teach them by voting out all those that voted for the bailout. Elmenreich Doctorhousingbubble and Piggington have used the article I posted and it was rarely debated in those blogs. Theses two blogs have been very accurate on the mechanics of the bubble. So I am inclined to trust their assessment more than yours. Also I see Brookings being used across the left and right. But If you can point out what is specifically wrong with the methodology of the article I am all all ears. And no I'm not trying to pick a fight.

sd_matt

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Housing tax credit costing more than it help. Posted: 10/27/2009 5:53:37 PM
All joking aside. What's to ignore from the original link? Have you read the link?

sd_matt

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Obama's latest approval ratings. Posted: 10/27/2009 3:22:57 PM
If I were politically calculating, oh wait, I am. OK OK but wait.... If I were a Repub I would start shouting loud against the fiscal irresponsibility. Not whispering the warnings like GW did during his eight years. It would position myself as the good guy and as someone who looks to the future. Oh wait. Did I say the word "future" ? Never mind.

sd_matt

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Housing tax credit costing more than it help. Posted: 10/27/2009 3:16:17 PM
I wonder how long before the sheeple pick up on this. You can imagine that this kind of "help" will go on for the foreseeable future. I guess they are either trying slow this down and make it not so spectacular. We gotta prepare for the 2010 election, ya know. Or they truly think they can turn this around. Hmmm.....the '10 election is in November. We might need to bump that tax credit up to $30k. By November the Alt-A loans will be defaulting in full force. Jobs will probably not be recovering by then. Better bump it up to a $45k tax credit. Of course we have to account for the fact that there will be those fence sitters waiting for ever higher tax credits. Better make it $60k. Hmmmm....how bout cash back on 0% financing? This could be fun. How bout we start making a betting pool on what kind nutty, long-term-future-killing incentives the powers that be will come up with next?

sd_matt

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Health care Posted: 10/27/2009 10:59:19 AM
From what I have seen securing our borders is much more easily done than trying to enforce immigration internally. Yes there will be tunnels and who knows what else. But it is still much much easier. Example. CBP catches much more drugs than DEA. It has to do with the fact that CBP watches everything that crosses in the course of trying to enforce illegal immigration. The DEA's focus is within the borders. CBP's seizures ( money and property )exceeds it's budget. Besides; the destruction of the $$ ought make American labor more competitive. In retrospect I'm not clear what the strong dollar policy was supposed to accomplish besides benefit the banks.

sd_matt

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Housing tax credit costing more than it help. Posted: 10/27/2009 10:40:14 AM
"Approximately 1.9 million buyers are expected to receive the credit, but more than 85 percent of these would have bought a home without the credit. This suggests a price tax of about $15 billion – which is twice what Congress intended – for approximately 350,000 additional home sales. At $43,000 per new home sale, this is a very expensive subsidy . . ." The linky; http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/10/why-expanding-home-buyers-credit-is-a-mistake/ But think of it this way folks. We are learning the economics and math that our education system failed to teach us.

sd_matt

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Obama's latest approval ratings. Posted: 10/16/2009 10:34:24 PM
Every person over the age of 60 I ask says that both parties have moved over to the left compared to forty years ago. It's a consensus.

sd_matt

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Health care Posted: 10/16/2009 10:31:52 PM
Pirate I read through the Wikipedia article on the 1945 legislation. I'm not exactly clear what difference it was supposed to make. At the moment, given the state of our government, I do not want more regulation, only less.

sd_matt

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Ron Pauls HR 1207. Will your rep sign it? Posted: 10/15/2009 10:25:08 PM
lol Matchlight. Nice. Now I have some more ammo for this other blogger who thinks both parties really ARE different. Hmmmm....maybe we could start up a new tradition. When the public realizes it elected a really horrible person it goes on a murder spree. "Excuse me sir. Did you vote for Mr. Frank?" "Why yes I did." BANG.

sd_matt

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Obama's latest approval ratings. Posted: 10/15/2009 7:47:18 PM
I would buy that theory about the Repubs deliberately losing except that that would require long-term planning. I'm not convinced that either party thinks past the next four minutes, let alone the next four years.

sd_matt

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Obama's latest approval ratings. Posted: 10/15/2009 7:43:58 PM
Personal opinion. The Dems are farther Left than the Reps are right. One example; The Dems associate with people like Moore. The Reps don't associate with Michael Savage. Both are equally corrupt.

sd_matt

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Health care Posted: 10/15/2009 7:38:29 PM
Tomboy it would be interesting to ask the Dems if they adhere to all that the Brit system represents. Matchlight I see the Reps do that a lot too. It's the pot calling the kettle black all day. To day I heard something on AM 600. I think it was Brian Soups or is it Soots? Whatever. Well he says that adding more people to the system forces us into greater health care expenses. Reasonable enough. Then he tries to tie that to repealing the anti-trust exemption. What am I missing here? How could repealing the exemption and allowing interstate competition lead to higher costs? I wonder who pays this guys bills?

sd_matt

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Ron Pauls HR 1207. Will your rep sign it? Posted: 10/15/2009 7:27:41 PM
At the moment the enemy is about 80% of Congress and the special interests that own them. I would guess it would be the interests that would do the assassinating.

sd_matt

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Obama's latest approval ratings. Posted: 10/14/2009 10:51:13 PM
Very likely that '10 is not going to be a pretty year. The "hope" high turns to hangover and people start to ask questions, well hopefully. And if they do then they find out that a lot of crony banks off loaded their bad debt to the taxpayer. Courtesy of G.W. and Barry. Eeeeewwwwww booooooy. The boys in D.C. are gonna have to come up with some pretty good financial junkie fixes to placate the voters past the first few months of 2010. But Barry DOES have the mainstream media on his side. 2010 will not change much for Congress if at all. But the next election might be a different story. Obama will be a one termer.

sd_matt

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Ron Pauls HR 1207. Will your rep sign it? Posted: 10/14/2009 10:39:33 PM
But if Nader got assassinated he would become a martyr. It's a catch-22 for the powers that be.

sd_matt

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Capitalism: A Love Story Posted: 10/14/2009 10:34:13 PM
One of the few instances in which I will be elitist is when it comes to ignorance. Smart or dumb, I can always attempt to inform myself. I excuse the dumb but not the ignorant.

sd_matt

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Health care Posted: 10/14/2009 10:27:30 PM
Just is bad as having a partial-birth abortion. It's one thing to abort a 1000-cell mass but this is just ruthless. I'm a bit pissed. I think this is more a sad comment on the Brits and their values. But I think it is irrelevant concerning what we can do on a practical level to improve our own system.

sd_matt

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Health care Posted: 10/13/2009 6:28:00 PM
To elaborate on voting some or most of Congress out of office I think this would help big time. I've heard all the arguments about "wasting your vote" ect ect... If both parties lose 20 percent of their seats or more to a third party then it will shake up the system and turn heads from lobbyists to the voters IMHO. That is not a wasted vote. And then the other argument; "But what are they going to get done with all those third-party loons clogging up the system?" What are they going to get done?! As opposed to what?!! When you put your third party rep into power you send him a letter that instructs him specifically what to do. Who cares what his platform is. If he does not follow your instructions the vote him out. A couple candidates later the message will be Lima Charlie. It may take some years to get the message through but it would be worth it. I see it as an investment.

sd_matt

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Msg: 76 (view)

Health care Posted: 10/13/2009 6:15:12 PM
Thanks Minister. Folks lets please keep this civilized. fzrhusker I agree with your last post. Before we go anywhere beyond repealing the 1945 legislation we need to fire all those that were looking the other way during the last three economic bubbles. Maybe then with some competent ( or at least those that actually fear for their cush Congress job) people in office we can get some stuff done. 1000 pages sounds like a middlemen scheme to me. Cap and trade sounds like the same. It is difficult to read and understand and I think that's the plan. And now for the broken record; It would be a lot easier to just hand out prize money for solar that costs $.25 a watt and bio fuel that costs $2 a gallon. No results=no prize money. But that would be easy for the public to follow. No I'm not trying to thread jack my own thread but just making a point. Who has time to read a 1000 pages besides the people in the news who will give us anything but the whole story? And if I follow this right then Obama is going to pull the waste out of Medicare to use it to help finance this new bill. Pffffft! Bwahahahaha!!! As if....And he should be doing that anyway. As for now the only socialization that makes sense to me is for catastrophic injuries. But aren't we already there.....? So for now we should just repeal the old anti-trust legislation, observe it's effects for a couple years and then move on to the next adjustment to the system.

sd_matt

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Ron Pauls HR 1207. Will your rep sign it? Posted: 10/13/2009 5:50:55 PM
I don't know about ending the fed but making it transparent is a good start.

sd_matt

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Right wing radio host gets waterboarded for 7 seconds. Admits it is torture Posted: 10/12/2009 6:40:43 PM
Al Queda and the Taliban have no issue torturing us. I have no issue torturing those observed fighting us on the battlefield. Same with those that give $$. Make your enemy suffer until he gives up.

sd_matt

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Ron Pauls HR 1207. Will your rep sign it? Posted: 10/12/2009 6:13:07 PM
I sent a couple emails to my senators and house rep. I'm sure the answer will be long-winded and not include a yes or no. Of course I'm operating on the belief that the gubment is in bed with big money. For those that feel is is pure big business look what the following people have to say. It would be good for you as they were predicting this economic calamity years before it happened. So they are probably more accurate than your local pundit. Peter Schiff (Pacific Capital, libertarian), Dean Baker (liberal, Center for Economics and Policy Research), Nouriel Roubini ( econ professor), Robert Schiller (author and professional). See what they say in common. It might take a couple hours or more. But democracy is work.

sd_matt

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Health care Posted: 10/12/2009 5:51:50 PM
Pirate I agree with repealing the 1945 legislation. Also allowing inter-state competition. Beyond that it is still a sea of info.

sd_matt

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Capitalism Posted: 10/12/2009 5:43:27 PM
Yes..play loose with your definitions to avoid an head on argument.....another old tactic.

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Right wing radio host gets waterboarded for 7 seconds. Admits it is torture Posted: 10/7/2009 12:22:31 AM
Charles I agree with you for once. "I'm going to give this guy credit. He put his money where his mouth was, and changed what his mouth said. I have no idea what else this guy does, but seriously, you got to give him credit in this instance."

sd_matt

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CONGRESS Posted: 10/7/2009 12:20:31 AM
Dmotz I have been now watching those who were warning us beforehand. And yeah, it's both parties. And now for the broken record to play. We need to vote out about 30 percent of each party out of Congress just to get their attention. And then move on to other matters.

sd_matt

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Glen Beck----I used to like him, but he is kinda freaking me out Posted: 10/7/2009 12:16:50 AM
I'm probably splitting hairs here. Moore is more like Air America. Beck is a tiny step above. He's closer to Alan Combs factually but much more entertaining. Personal assessment.

sd_matt

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Capitalism Posted: 10/7/2009 12:11:43 AM
I forgot a caveat Earlz define your standard of ignorance.

sd_matt

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Capitalism Posted: 10/7/2009 12:10:09 AM
Odds are yes. Look it up.

sd_matt

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Health care Posted: 10/7/2009 12:08:58 AM
Bajaslider If 1+1=2 sheds some light on this then I will hold it near and dear to my heart. I'm not above anything. I have some reading to do. Here's something I found in the meantime; http://leahy.senate.gov/press/200909/091709a.html. I'm no doctor but I cant see what's wrong with this.

sd_matt

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Health care Posted: 10/6/2009 4:13:07 PM
I don't know about you folks but trying to get all the info about the health issue is like being presented with pieces of a mosaic, one at a time. The best questions I can think of to ask is the following; Do American health care professionals feel the system is in need of fixing or replacing? And where does this info come from? Gallup, Pew, ect.. good. Heritage Foundation, NPR, FOX, CNN...ect...bad. Can we please leave Moore and Rush out of the conversation? If fixing then what do the doctors/providers all agree on? If not all then what are the most common things they say? I know that I am re-hashing an old topic but I tire of trying to put the puzzle together, and this one is a whopper.

sd_matt

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but they have great healthcare..... Posted: 10/6/2009 4:08:14 PM
Yeah so Im not smoking the good stuff. That button is there sometimes and sometimes not. Whats up with that?

sd_matt

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but they have great healthcare..... Posted: 10/6/2009 3:26:31 PM
I wanted to start a new thread about health care. I can't find the button, it seems to appear randomly. Can anyone help?

sd_matt

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Glen Beck----I used to like him, but he is kinda freaking me out Posted: 10/6/2009 3:05:17 PM
The best in the media right not, IMHO, Jerry Doyle and Phil Henry. Late night AM radio. If nothing else that that they give more raw information (especially Phil Henry). They give you more opportunities to look up what they say. It's common for Phil to read stuff to you. Many others will not do that and then give you their interpretation.

sd_matt

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Capitalism: A Love Story Posted: 10/6/2009 2:49:18 PM
Former "I don't see what this has to do with Moore. Of course Moore distorts, like any showman. Think about the logic of your post....the brilliant economic minds sounded the alarm long before...and nobody listened....so you want Moore to do the same thing....and be ignored as well. Makes no sense at all." My point here is to call BS where I see it. And Moore's BS is not giving the whole picture. That is just as damaging as an outright lie. Seriously, it is the most obvious bit of common sense to see an huge economic calamity and afterwards ask "Gee. Was there anyone that foresaw this?" How many of could have known before? Not many, but we have no excuse not to know now. There has never been an easier time to find the economic truth sayers. If you don't see the logic in that then I don't know what to tell you. It's amazing how many people don't think like this and it kills me. For those who want the easy finger of blame to point then there are people like Moore, Rush, Hannity ect... I guess Kool Aid just tastes too good.

sd_matt

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Capitalism Posted: 10/6/2009 2:26:34 PM
Yes Nomadic Hard workers rise to the top..but not all. Tell me...how many lazy people, as a percentage, rise and how many hard workers do the same, as a percentage. There are stats to support this. Look it up for yourself. The more wealthy you are, the more hours you work on average. We can all pick a hundred individual examples to contradict each others arguments. This is one of the oldest tactics in the book. There are exceptions to every rule and if you focus on just them then you will get a different picture. If you buy into that form of argument then odds are you are one of the sheep and will be forever manipulated by charismatics. No not all hard workers rise. What I left out is that Capitalism also does not reward the ignorant , even if they work hard.

sd_matt

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Capitalism: A Love Story Posted: 10/5/2009 3:14:55 AM
To Former... The point is that it's not just Wall Street as you know. And yes that is very important if accountability is important to you. Moore is ( in my bet) putting the blame squarely on Wall Street when they are in bed with the Gubment. And many of the sheeple participated too a la the home equity ATM. So lets look on while capitalism is solely blamed while we run into the arms of a government that helped get us here to begin with. That's what Moore would have us do. Come to think of it..Moore isn't stupid..I think...now I'm starting to think he is just out to destroy us. It's enough to make me sarcastically think that.

sd_matt

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Capitalism: A Love Story Posted: 10/4/2009 1:15:06 PM
Read the speech that was given at the NRA rally after Columbine. You might change your mind or you might not. It seems to me that most on the net feel that Moore distorts. I'm not too sure about the rest of America. To echo what a previous poster said, What good is the awareness that Moore raises if it is distorted? The drum that I have been beating endlessly on the blogs is that you all should look up the people that predicted this economic collapse YEARS before it happened. I cant think of any better info that this. But you gotta see it for yourself. When I keyword searched it a few names came up. Robert Schiller, Peter Schiff, Dean Baker, Nouriel Roubini. Watch them on YouTube. Maybe you all know or others. If Michael Moore wanted to do this he could. He's not stupid. After watching these people I know that Moore is a big time liar. He only gives part of the truth, just like Rush or Hannity.

sd_matt

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Capitalism Posted: 10/2/2009 1:52:38 PM
Personal opinion Capitalism is like a mirror that exposes you for what you are, good or bad. If you have a sheep like mentality than capitalism will expose it. If you have initiative and are willing to learn then you rise to the top. If you are lazy then you sink to the bottom. If you consume without looking at what you consume then don't be surprised when you get sick or hurt. If you are lazy and uninformed then odds are you hate capitalism.

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