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2. K&R

Reply to w0nderer (Original post)

Mon May 30, 2016, 06:27 AM

May 2016

Wake up America. This is a national shame. I guess Chris Matthews of MSNBC would call it a part of our "American Exceptionalism?" There is nothing exceptional about this. Exceptionally shameful is what I call it.

Americans need to get their heads screwed back on after Ronald Reagan's "Me-Me-Me" Greed is good brainwashing. I am reminded of a song I sang in HS Choir many years ago. It was from the 1962 movie "No Man Is An Island."

"No man is an island,
No man stands alone,
Each man's joy is joy to me,
Each man's grief is my own.

We need one another,
So I will defend,
Each man is my brother,
Each man is my friend."

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