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No trust, no solutions

No trust, no solutions. “No one gave voters outside the handout community a compelling reason to show up in November.” “I have said many times in recent years that the gap between the American people and their political leaders is bigger today than at any time since our spat with England in the 1770s.” Yeah, this is gonna work out well…

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Bonfire of the Absurdities: After 35 year career writing software for IBM mainframes, am now self-employed contractor thinking of joining a union and striking for higher wages. Cured morbid fear of heights when I learned to look at them as lengths standing on end. Uncompromising in refusal to accept browser cookies. Amateur investor who has accumulated a small fortune in the market after starting out years ago with a large one. For recreation, I run, hike, kayak and play tennis but will not consider synchronized swimming under any circumstances.

View Comments (7)

sifi says:

January 21, 2013 at 10:25 am

“No one gave voters outside the handout community a compelling reason to show up in November.”
Voters wanting to control the handout community should have been a compelling reason to show up in November.
- Sidekick says:
  
  January 21, 2013 at 11:25 am
  
  I agree. The GOP registered voters who did not vote are as bad as the Dems who did.
  - jcrowley1985 says:
    
    January 21, 2013 at 11:31 am
    
    Well, they did shun the Ron Paul voters.
    - sa_rose says:
      
      January 22, 2013 at 8:19 pm
      
      And morons like you were worse than non voting Republicans and stupid democrats re electing the worst president in history. You should have known better.
    - ooddballz says:
      
      January 21, 2013 at 11:42 am
      
      YOU are a Ron Paul voter, reason enough to shun them.
      - Not so silent says:
        
        January 21, 2013 at 11:46 am
        
        He will never figure it out.....Someday he will end his mancrush on Ron Paul and pick out some other old wrinkled guy, maybe like Chris Matthews.
PsychoDad says:

January 21, 2013 at 10:07 am

Mmmph, rather discouraging. Maybe it is time to start thinking about some radical solutions.
/And I ain't just whistlin' "Dixie."