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What are you calling 'essential", Marion?
You see, a great many of do not consider a 56" LCD television an essential for a welfare recipient, yet most of them seem to have one.
It's often good fun and sometimes revealing to divide American history into distinct periods of uniform length. In working on my forthcoming book on American migrations, internal and immigrant, it occurred to me that you could do this using the American-sounding interval of 76 years, just a few years more than the Biblical lifespan of three score and 10.
It was 76 years from Washington's First Inaugural in 1789 to Lincoln's Second Inaugural in 1865. It was 76 years from the surrender at Appomattox Courthouse in 1865 to the attack at Pearl Harbor in 1941.
Going backward, it was 76 years...
FULL BUST OUT CABLE
I can't afford the whole package. It's over $150. a mo. But, every ghetto dweller has
THE WHOLE NINE YARDS
If we'd elected McCain, his energy policy would have had millions working by now. With good jobs available, one can start cutting welfare and other useless and stupid vote buying programs..Start cutting fed employees that we have to pay for right though retirement plus the new hire ad infinitum, most of whom perform no useful work.
I or any conservaitive with a brain could reduce the fed budget by 25% in a year just ignore the screaming..