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Scuba

(53,475 posts) Wed Dec 18, 2013, 10:27 AM Dec 2013

With "special advantages" come "peculiar obligation"

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With "special advantages" come "peculiar obligation" (Original Post) Scuba Dec 2013 OP

"With great power comes great responsibility." randome Dec 2013 #1

Not in our society. Most recently, the banksters who ruined us have been awarded trillion$$$ in Romulox Dec 2013 #2

randome

(34,845 posts)

1. "With great power comes great responsibility."

Reply to Scuba (Original post)

Wed Dec 18, 2013, 10:31 AM

Dec 2013

Both statements are true.
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Romulox

(25,960 posts)

2. Not in our society. Most recently, the banksters who ruined us have been awarded trillion$$$ in

Reply to Scuba (Original post)

Wed Dec 18, 2013, 10:36 AM

Dec 2013

taxpayer bailouts. The "evil" health insurance industry was awarded millions of captive customers.

The only "peculiar obligations" in America flow from the taxpayers to the wealthy, not the other way around.

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