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markodochartaigh

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4. If the US had taken the amount of money that we spent

Reply to Brenda (Original post)

Fri Nov 14, 2025, 08:11 PM

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to fight off communism and spent that money to help the population of the US, we would have had such an incredible country that no one would have questioned for an instant that the system in the US was yielding the best results possible for everyone in the country.

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