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   Message 2,350 of 4,105   
   Richard Webb to Lee Lofaso   
   Republican Math   
   11 Nov 12 22:06:51   
   
   Hello Lee,   
      
   On Sun 2012-Nov-11 20:02, Lee Lofaso (2:203/2) wrote to Richard Webb:   
      
   LL> Oh, come now.  Don't be so hard on the guy.  I mean, he did create   
   LL> lots of jobs in China, Indonesia, Mongolia ...   
      
   YEah I know, but ...   
      
   RW>Hmmm, KB toy was a thriving popular destination at many   
   RW>shopping malls across the country.  IT went Toes up under   
   RW>the guidance of MItt Romney.   
      
      
   RW>Yep, job creators, maybe for minimum wage drones, or more   
   RW>like they created an opportunity to do a job on the   
   RW>taxpayers.   
      
   LL> Bob K. hates for me to bring this up, but in many cases folks are   
   LL> much better off not working at all.  By working, those very same   
   LL> folks deny themselves government benefits they would otherwise be   
   LL> entitled to.  I call them "the working poor."  They earn too much to   
   LL> qualify for govermnet benefits, but do not earn enough to pay for   
   LL> those same things on the open market (food, rent, health care,   
   LL> prescription drugs, etc.).   
      
   WE make more of them all the time as they go to work at   
   Walmart.  ,yup>  I know people who must work "under the   
   table" so as to keep those life saving benefits, because if   
   they didn't have them they couldn't pay for the medications   
   that keep them alive.     
      
      
   RW>I get real tired of listening to these people piss moan and   
   RW>whine about some guy getting food stamps when they look the   
   RW>other way at billions of largess bestowed upon crooks on   
   RW>Wall Street.   
      
   LL> Lots of everyday folks invest in Wall Street.  Most of them   
   LL> indirectly, and not with a lot a cash to worry about.  So please. Do   
   LL> realize not everyone is a crook.  :)   
      
   Right, but the crooks are the guys who take those average   
   folks for the big ride, but I think you knew that's waht I   
   meant.   
      
   RW>As for the great occupy movement, it was anotehr bad joke.   
      
   LL> The occupy wall street movement has transformed itself into being   
   LL> the occupy sandy movement.   
      
      
      
   Regards,   
              Richard   
   ... Love is being owned by a rottweiler!   
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