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Bravo Mr. Sweeney! Bravo Mr. Masako! Well said!

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Ma'am;... Anyone who asks Americans to sacrifice ought to be spanked in public. We sacrifice all the time and it only gets worse and never gets better. Think of the price we paid to beat the communists. ...Who paid it but working people? With the communists beat did we get a refund, a peace dividend? No!.. The government just found a new enemy and a new way to waste money. Do we have national health care, or even a decent public health system? No! It is a sacrifice the people bear so that a greater share of their produce can be turned to profit. What about our education? People pressed to the wall have to struggle to support local schools, and if they can afford university it is riding a huge wave of debt. They see our foreign aid dollars spent by people from every distant shore in universities to educate their best, and when they graduate they see their wages driven down by the newly educated immigrant. We the people do not invite immigration, but we sacrifice for something we little benefit from. So one man can profit from immigrant slaves we have more people needing government support, without hope, without a future. Does that one not sacrifice -who must live without hope or fair wages???... It is a sacrifice to drive on unsafe roads. It is a sacrifice to suffer worn out infrastructure. It is a sacrifice to have to chase your job all over the country while the job seeks lower wages, and lower taxes. It is a sacrifice to bear the price of any government that does not seek our goals as written in the preamble of the constitution.... This is a wealthy country, made wealthy by its population, which enjoys little enough of its wealth. Let them urge this raggedy population to ever greater sacrifice. I dare them to.... We have had enough of sacrifice so government and wealthy can run hog wild... We have had enough;  and they can shove sacrifice in their ears...Thanks...Sweeney

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Ma'am;... I hate to be the source of education for your readers. I am not educated. I am an ironworker, retired, beat up, and probably should be drawing social security. One thing you hear often in regard to social security is the number of those drawing SS compared to those contributing to it. ..Now, they say two people will be supporting everyone retired. So what??? One man working can produce what ten could only a few years back. And this progress has been going on, and the government could see this imaginary problem approaching, and yet, would not tax because that might limit profits. In fact, government borrowed against the SS principal with no interest paid. Now, think about the cost of social security... This was money out of my grand father's and father's and out of my pocket. This was money our labor produced that was denied to each generation that they might have turned to their own benefit. Did they ever ask their due, and did any of us ask our due while we had the government looking out for our golden years? We did without. Without our money, we had less children, and with less children we have less hope of any person caring for us for free. We are demoralized if we can no longer demand that government act for us, inour best interest, and only pray that it will not desert us completely. We have taken care of our old, as my mother and aunt cared for my grandmother who had few benefits from social security. We can do this as a nation for people who have already carried this country. If the question becomes how many or what group will we throw to the dogs so profit for the rich can continure without limit, then none of us are safe.... This place called America is becoming a great big toilet for profit. Children, the poor, the undeducated, the insane and disturbed, the veteran; all are denied their rights, what is their due, for greater and greater profits. Here is the problem... Only twenty percent of the economy is carried by productive employment and all the rest is service. We have become a nation of servants. I have heard that 95% of our real production is exported, but we import more still. The imports still mean profits, but not fair wages. So we have few productive jobs supporting fair wages which pay taxes, including social security tax. God love the profiteers, but we cannot support them. We can afford to support old people. We cannot support endless profit. We cannot allow profiteers to run our government for their profit, capitalizing them endlessly, borrowing from our future to pay for the past. W cannot afford capital. We can all afford to live if we learn how to throw the capitalists to the dogs, but they can't live without us... Thanks...Sweeney

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Oh, please Saunders. Has whoring gotten so low that all you can talk about is which candidate promised "sacrifice" to the voters? I have news for you: Neither did. That's because sacrifice doesn't sell. Those who hawk "have it now and have it all" (that would be you, in case denial invites) make that an impossibility.