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Damansarajaya

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April 25, 2014

Rebuttal to Maggie Thatcher's quote: The problem with socialism is

that eventually you run out of other people's money.

Uh huh . . .

And the problem with CAPITALISM is that eventually one person has all the money.

April 2, 2014

Rapid response to the Supreme Court decision

Fight back.

Spontaneous demonstrations planned for tonight--

http://www.moneyout-votersin.org/

April 1, 2014

Teddy Roosevelt on supporting the president even when he does wrong . . .

The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the Nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else.

Kansas City Star (7 May 1918).

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