Oink Report - 3 November 2009


	Oink Report - 3 November 2009

ColoradoRight

11-5-2009 2:39 PM

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congress, spending, taxes, pork

ColoradoRight says:

I am so glad that children who won't be born for decades yet will be paying the interest on the money spent to keep the Merry-Go-Round Museum open. That must save or create a gajillion jobs.

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