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	Earmarks

cniq_cniq

6-1-2007 11:31 PM

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politics, government, legislature, congress, corruption

cniq_cniq says:

"The lesson is that nearly nothing has changed with the new Democratic Congress. Appropriators continue to look downward upon the taxpayer as if he were a being of lesser intelligence."

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6-2-2007 8:23 AM

ouyangwulong

The lesson is that nothing changes in Congress. Period. Just voting for more politicians doesn't seem to do the trick.

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