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Sat Mar 28, 2015, 01:24 PM Mar 2015

Keep Licking the Icing and You'll Never Eat the Cake | Philip A. Farruggio



Philip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust

March 26, 2015

Americans love to be diverted.

Perhaps it's our being bombarded since childhood with massive advertising, to the effect of subtle brainwashing. Then factor in the learned desire for the need to gossip that many of us saw in our families and neighborhoods.

Mix this all together and you have a nation of fools who love to spend too much time on whispering about petty scandals, while the real scams go virtually unnoticed.

It did not matter that Saddam Hussein had no WMDs or chemical and biological weapons... only that he held the rifle upright and acted like the thug he was. It did not matter that the Wall Street sharks created the subprime con job to the tune of billions in their coffers... only that some undeserving low income fool was buying a home with few dollars down... maybe even in your neighborhood!

It does not matter that more than half of our tax dollars go to buy overkill weapons systems and 52-million-dollar Apache Helicopters, or costs us more than $1 million annually to keep one soldier in Afghanistan... when some lazy slob on line in front of you has food stamps, with a new car outside the store... and gold chains hanging from his neck.

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Keep Licking the Icing and You'll Never Eat the Cake | Philip A. Farruggio (Original Post) Tace Mar 2015 OP
K&R..... daleanime Mar 2015 #1
butbutbut that's perspective. WELFARE QUEENS! not welfare kings. pansypoo53219 Mar 2015 #2
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