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GoCubsGo

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11. Yep. They don't even know how their own damn country is run.

Reply to John2 (Reply #4)

Sun Jan 6, 2013, 10:06 AM

Jan 2013

Yet, they want the power to run it? We are NOTHING like Greece or Italy, and with their insistence on "austerity, THEY are the ones trying to turn us into another Greece.

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Yep. They don't even know how their own damn country is run. GoCubsGo Jan 2013 #11

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