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Why Do Americans Pretend They Have Government?

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It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that cutting taxes to the bone, while providing corporate welfare with what is collected in tax revenue, is a short term approach meant to destroy the nation's future economic viability. The Supreme Court recently ruled that corporations may not be limited in giving whatever amounts of money they wish to those holding public office. Every self respecting corporation, whether foreign or domestic, owns a few Congressmen. Obama is happy if he can dump another truckload of taxpayer cash on Wall Street's Commercial Banks. It is absolutely astonishing that the only public activism in the nation is the Mad Hatter's Tea Party.

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Jon Faulkner is a licensed Master Mariner. He has long considered the conservative republican mindset a form of mental illness. He lives in northern Maine.
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