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True Blue Door

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8. Doesn't matter to them. Rationally calculating their interests isn't in their wheelhouse.

Reply to tblue37 (Reply #6)

Sun Dec 21, 2014, 08:00 PM

Dec 2014

They just want the payment - the cash in hand. The tangible evidence that they're Smart, even if subsequent events prove otherwise - which they can easily just blame on everyone else.

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WTF ...188 [View all] pbmus Dec 2014 OP

Do we need a clearer picture? randr Dec 2014 #1

One way or another, people get the government they deserve. True Blue Door Dec 2014 #2

Exactly colsohlibgal Dec 2014 #3

He promised them a tax cut. That's all that matters to a lot of them. True Blue Door Dec 2014 #5

Of course, once taxes are deeply cut, individual fees go up, so instead of spreading tblue37 Dec 2014 #6

Doesn't matter to them. Rationally calculating their interests isn't in their wheelhouse. True Blue Door Dec 2014 #8

K & R nt okaawhatever Dec 2014 #4

Maybe Cali has more rich to tap? seveneyes Dec 2014 #7

Koch brothers live in Kansas. bullwinkle428 Dec 2014 #10

I'm a melancholy man seveneyes Dec 2014 #11

Same thing happened in Minnesota, just like Cali. 99Forever Dec 2014 #9