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Immoral Beyond Redemption

conservative_librarian Wrote: Jun 06, 2012 2:08 PM

the problem is you werent actually promised a pay out you were promised as part of your compensation that withholdings would be removed from your check and matched by your employer (if not self employed) to meet those tax obligations that if not met would result in you being penalized or jailed. you were not jailed (?) and therefore the compensation has been met

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Immoral Beyond Redemption

Benjamin Franklin, statesman and signer of our Declaration of Independence, said: "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." John Adams, another signer, echoed a similar statement: "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." Are today's Americans virtuous and moral, or have we become corrupt and vicious? Let's think it through with a few questions.

Suppose I saw an elderly woman painfully huddled on a heating grate in the dead of winter. She's hungry and in...

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