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    EPIC FAIL:Digitizing America's medical records

    Some information really shouldn't be online, that includes really sensitive details that can simply be hacked and sold on. The irony of a surveillance society that keeps a cloud or server based database of all its citizens information, is that it makes it much easier for people to steal state...
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    Austerity: good or bad?

    Austerity as in tax increases to pay off debt is good in the short term, but I wouldn't go for austerity Greek style, which just stagnates economic growth by causing chaos in government services, and adding crazy taxes on things that discourage businesses to start up in the country (or even...
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    Why the GOP is driving me (and others) away.

    If you want sound advice. Stop believing in the Republicans or Democrats, and vote more on the issues, and not on the person or the party. Because if enough Americans do that, then third parties could finally get elected, along with a lot of independents. It sucks having only two electable...
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    Mother of boy shot dead denies spending donated funds on new car

    She can do what she wants with whatever is left from the funeral expenses, and if some of that is from donations, then big deal, there are other issues to worry about than what happens on GoFundMe. Also comfort food and impulse buys are quite common after someone suffers something painful...
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    OUR military is FAT !! What can we trim?

    Not with the roughly thousand mothballed tanks in storage, waiting for WW3.
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    Ben Carson, the humblebragging instrument of God

    I bought food, worked, helped out charity, and also I was a member of the informal ' the school librarian sucked' lobby, and rolled my eyes rather than get involved in school fights. Guess that makes me a better candidate via a not running write-in, than Ben Carson.
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    Ben Carson, the humblebragging instrument of God

    The founders prayed for liberty, life and happiness, and got it. Ben Carson appears in public to pray for the Republic of Gilead, and won't get it. But how many of his views are really his, and how many were just created on the spot to appeal to the most extreme of the GOP base?
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    Atheists are SCARED to disparage Muslims

    Some of the most vocal critics of Islam are Atheist, the late Christopher Hitchens for one.
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    Obama administration releases text of TPP trade deal

    Well, guess we are back to robber baron economics by a majority vote of the House and Senate.
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    Our Coming Age Of Austerity

    I think Pat seems forget that the US had to get into debt to become independent from the British Empire, and high debt doesn't necessarily imply that a country had no hope in getting out of it. That said the current policy isn't really working, and needs tax hikes to get the debt down a bit...
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    Sanders goes where Clinton won't..

    Outlawing abortion wouldn't end abortion, instead it would just go underground. All you would do is create illegal makeshift clinics in back-alleys*, and deaths from abortion procedures would skyrocket. Also if abortion was banned, in the same breath the ' religious lobby ' wants to ban...
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    Boehners Secret Debt Ceiling Agreement

    I have already said taxes have to be raised, unless you commit to extreme spending cuts that no politician would vote for unless he/she wants to commit political suicide. After raising taxes on the rich, you might have to raise them on the middle class, it really depends how big the debt is -...
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    Boehners Secret Debt Ceiling Agreement

    The Bush Cuts ultimately lowered taxes for those that could afford to pay higher taxes, as well as lowered them for the middle class, but the largest tax cut was for the very wealthy. To pay off the national debt at current levels of taxation you quite literally would have to shut down most of...
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    Boehners Secret Debt Ceiling Agreement

    I don't think most GOP politicians can really comprehend that raising taxes to increase tax revenue, and then using that revenue on infrastructure, development, and to pay down the national debt, is a much more sustainable way to create the conditions to allow tax cuts. Instead we have had 'Bush...
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    OUR military is FAT !! What can we trim?

    The waste is in what is contracted and not in the military itself, for example we are still building tanks to fight the Soviet Union. When we really should be spending that money on things relevant to the enemies we actually face like ISIS, and not on a hypothetical future war with Russia or...
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