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...But of these sophisms and elenchs of merchandise I skill not...
Milton, Areopagitica

Except he had found the
standing sea-rock that even this last
Temptation breaks on; quieter than death but lovelier; peace
that quiets the desire even of praising it.

Jeffers, Meditation On Saviors


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17.12.05

The American government is paying 500 million dollars every day in interest on the national debt.
The national debt is 8.1 trillion dollars.
The country as a fiscal entity goes deeper into debt by 907 million dollars every day.
The family-values no-child-left-behind good practicing mostly Christians of the Republican Party have cut 600 million dollars from the budget that would have gone to agencies whose responsibilities are to care for abused and orphaned children.
Abused and orphaned children.
The family-values heroes want to give us a tax cut of $56 billion. Around $17 billion of that will go to the richest 1% of Americans, people who all earn more than a million dollars a year.
None of the abused children who are put into the foster care system and none of the orphans who end up in the foster care system earn more than a million dollars a year, and none will be receiving tax cuts. There are around a half million kids in the foster care system.

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