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gewcew23 @gewcew23 (8007) • United States 2 Oct 11

I enjoy using a debit card oppose to writing a check or carrying around a lot of cash. Up to this point my bank let me use my debit card for free, and in a way encouraged me to do so since they charge me an arm and a leg for a box...

bank fees

banks

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thegreatdebater @thegreatdebater (7316) • United States 1 Oct 11

If you think it is easy to be president you just have to look at what is going on in southern Ohio right now. You have many republicans including the governor, and many representatives calling on the Obama administration to write...

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politics

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gewcew23 Wait just a minute their, Ohio Republicans want the Federal government to give a company 2 billion dollars of the tax payers money. Which one is the greater proof that Republican talk out of their a$$es when it comes to spending, that they want the federal...

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valentinesdiner @valentinesdiner (1214) • United States 25 Sep 11

Ryan Fitzpatrick is making a name for himself--- great arm and getting more and more patient. Great win over New England... last time the Bills were 3 and 0 they went on to the Super Bowl. Ahhhhhh dare to dream.

dreamer

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gewcew23 "last time the Bills were 3 and 0 they went on to the Super Bowl" which one? Anyways I remember when he was the backup to Marc Bulger with ST. Louis, and periodically Ryan would have to fill in for Marc. Those games that Ryan played in he looked the part as a...

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valentinesdiner @valentinesdiner (1214) • United States 25 Sep 11

Fear the Birds, Bosox.... nothing like playing for pride. Can they get some respect, eh?

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gewcew23 Can they get some respect, they're Baltimore. How much respect can you give a franchise who every year is finishing last in that division. I know that they have to play the Yankees and Soxs but come on if the Rays can battle them so can the O's.

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valentinesdiner @valentinesdiner (1214) • United States 20 Sep 11

Face it folks, whether to pay off the deficit, pay down the debt or just providing needed services now under the budget knife... what is so bad about calling ion the wealthy to pay more of a fair share? International readers...

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gewcew23 I am amazed how the charge of class warfare only works in one direction. When Democrats demand that the wealthiest two percent should pay a couple of percents higher in taxation Republican cry class warfare, yet when Republicans run on the platform of...

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anniepa @anniepa (27955) • United States 21 Sep 11

Who else is following the Troy David death penalty case in Georgia? For anyone who isn't, Davis has been on death row since his 1991 conviction for killing an off-duty policeman and was scheduled to die by lethal injection at 7:00...

execution delayed

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gewcew23 Is the institution of the death penalty really worth it if one innocent person dies? I have no idea if Troy David is innocent or guilty of his accused crimes but I do know that the organization Project Innocent has proven that over 200 people, who were on...

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thegreatdebater @thegreatdebater (7316) • United States 21 Sep 11

When the latest poverty statistics came out the top states on the list were all dark red states. Yet, none of the republicans candidates have even said a word about the poverty in the states they represent, and have actually...

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gewcew23 Republican voters don't want the help because they don't want anyone else to get the help. Those states have higher than average populate levels of minority groups, which the vast majority of those groups vote Democratic where as the white majority in those...

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gewcew23 @gewcew23 (8007) • United States 6 Sep 11

About three years ago I was a full time employee. I got personal time, vacation time(one week for the first year, two for the second, three for the fifth and four for the tenth), holiday pay, and health insurance. Until three...

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gewcew23 I live in the USA where there are very few employment laws.

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thegreatdebater @thegreatdebater (7316) • United States 31 Aug 11

According to a new study, US corporations spend more money on lobbying congress, and paying their CEO's than they did in Federal Income Tax. Some on here may be happy to hear this, but the problem is that All of these corporations...

business

corporations

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gewcew23 US corporations are not job creators, they are just profit makers. Corporation will do this by making cheap products and selling those products as expensive as they can, or as you are describing just take money from the taxpayers.

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gewcew23 @gewcew23 (8007) • United States 6 Sep 11

About three years ago I was a full time employee. I got personal time, vacation time(one week for the first year, two for the second, three for the fifth and four for the tenth), holiday pay, and health insurance. Until three...

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thegreatdebater @thegreatdebater (7316) • United States 3 Sep 11

I listen to a certain business channel all day long in my car, and the only solution I hear from republicans is to cut taxes, and stop sending. However, every single one of them agree that the only way out of our problems right...

employement

spending

taxes

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gewcew23 When I get a raise, which I really can't remember the last raise I ever got because I work for such a greedy company, I do not increase my house hold expenses. I would assume that I would treat a tax cut the exact same way.

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thegreatdebater @thegreatdebater (7316) • United States 3 Sep 11

Republicans like Eric Cantor have been calling for cuts in "entitlement" programs, but only the programs that effect the people that DON'T vote for them. One of the most useless "entitlement" programs in our budget currently is...

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gewcew23 Republicans do not mind subsidizing their voters and supporter. That is why they will subsidize farmers, oil billionaires, and war profiteers. Now ask them to give one cent for an African or Latino American to go to college and the Republicans will oppose this...

6 Sep 11

ladybugmagic @ladybugmagic (3978) • United States 4 Sep 11

What, truly, do you think the republicans would have accomplished these last few years, if their number one goal wasn't to make Obama a one-termer? Don't get me wrong, it does take a lot of work to create the perception that...

do nothing congress

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gewcew23 As to your last question Republicans want to do everything they can to prevent those jobs just so they can use the horrible unemployment numbers against him. It is kind of sick that one chamber of congress is controlled by a political party that wants to keep...

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gewcew23 @gewcew23 (8007) • United States 19 Jul 11

If there is two things I know about American conservatives, and I should since I use to be one, is that they love black conservatives and hate the concept of the separation of church and state. Why, well for the first supporting a...

conservatives

herman cain

separation of church and state

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thegreatdebater @thegreatdebater (7316) • United States 10 Jul 11

With all of the budget issues we have right now, do you really think that we consider them to be untouchable, as republicans have states? The fact that these will cost the country $3.3 Trillion dollars over the next 9 years, and...

bush tax cuts

supply side economics

taxes

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gewcew23 Simply no. Many countries around the world have much higher taxes and healthy economies. An example, Norway which has no debt to speak of. In fact Norway is one of those countries that lend to the USA, no China isn't the only country that we owe. Another...

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Flight84 @Flight84 (3048) • United States 10 Jul 11

I have a Pandigital novel and it supports Barnes and Noble NOOK e-books and Kindle. I only use Barnes and Noble right now. What books have you read with your e-reader and do you have any recommendations? I'm currently reading...

pandigital

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gewcew23 Right now I am reading Bram Stoker's Dracula. I have read Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Count of Monte Cristo, all of which came preloaded to my Kobo. I would recommend reading all three if you haven't already.

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Flight84 @Flight84 (3048) • United States 10 Jul 11

I have a Pandigital novel e-reader and I love it. I've had it for a few months now and it's a purchase I'm so glad I made. I never thought I would enjoy having an e-reader, but it's nice to have. Pandigital novels can be converted...

pandigital

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gewcew23 are not our

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Flight84 @Flight84 (3048) • United States 10 Jul 11

I have a Pandigital novel e-reader and I love it. I've had it for a few months now and it's a purchase I'm so glad I made. I never thought I would enjoy having an e-reader, but it's nice to have. Pandigital novels can be converted...

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gewcew23 I have a Kobo, it is simple to use and idiot proof, two things I look for in technology. I also like that it came preloaded with one hundred books, all of which our good reads. The e-ink is easy to read, without any strain to my eyes, though the page turns are...

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gewcew23 @gewcew23 (8007) • United States 6 Jul 11

Am I right or am I wrong that anti-union sentiment, in the USA, is higher now than it has been in a long time? To me labor unions are being blamed for everything that ills America right now. Currently we have two sports leagues...

labor unions

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thegreatdebater @thegreatdebater (7316) • United States 4 Jul 11

Republicans in Congress want to dramatically cut spending in order to cut or debt, and retain cuts for the wealthiest Americans (themselves included). But, the only thing this will do is transfer this debt from the federal level...

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gewcew23 So we cut federal spending so we do not have to raise taxes okay but let us not live in an imaginary world where all of those services that were being funded by that spending keep going on like nothing happened. If the states decide to fund those services...

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