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During the Bush years the richest 400 Americans added $400 billion to their net worth, while unemployment doubled and poverty tripled.
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The U.S. spends more money on weapons each year than the whole world spends on food and drinks.
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Aljazeera has done more stories on the Wall Street protests than CNN, Fox News and MSNBC combined.
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The Mirror wrote:Every year the state of Israel spends 200 times more on war and destruction than the Palestinian people.
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considering that Palestine is liberally supplied with their rockets by Iran and Syria.
Arguing with a liberal is like playing chess with a pigeon. No matter how well you play chess, the pigeon just knocks over all the pieces, craps on the board, spews some unintelligible profanities, and struts around like he won."
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If you do not think of the U.S. as in imperial power, imagine how you would feel if China had military bases in 68 countries including yours
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Grady wrote:
The Mirror wrote:Every year the state of Israel spends 200 times more on war and destruction than the Palestinian people.
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considering that Palestine is liberally supplied with their rockets by Iran and Syria.

Iran and syria? Thats your argument rofllol The United States gives $3.5 billion to Israel every year and thats not counting all of the stae of the art aircraft, ships, drones, and weapons of war of all kinds we give them
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The 2008 bank bailout by Bush was the largest corporate welfare handout in history, yet conservatives still whine about welfare
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Since 1952, $1.7 Trillion have been given to Israel by the U.S, most of it going towards the brutalization of Palestinians and their land.
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Only 6 countries known to have executed juvenile offenders in the last 15 years: the U.S. , Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Nigeria.

Thats nice company were keeping
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In 2010, GE paid $0 in taxes and collected $3.2 billion in tax benefits, while conservatives think poor mothers are squeezing the system.
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