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Linda Brandhagen's avatar

I have been sending our representatives emails and calling for month about the possible cuts. Sen Thune responds with a very unsatisifying response that the budget has to be reduced. Face it, they don't care about the citizens, they care about keeping their jobs.

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Dale Michel's avatar

Wow, they actually respond to you? Astonishing! I can only get some junior staffer to send me a canned, boiler plate message about "enacting the president's agenda". I imagine they're probably too busy soliciting "campaign contributions" (read: legal bribes) from our billionaire overlords to worry about our petty problems.

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Dale Michel's avatar

Wow, they actually respond to you? I can only get a junior staffer to send me some canned, boiler plate message about "enacting the presidents agenda". Meaning, of course, "Go away, you dirty peasant, and quit bothering me with your petty problems!"

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Lars Aanning's avatar

When I went back in 1990 to visit the Lebensborn orphanage in Kohren-Sahlis, I asked the young director what happened to the elderly and disabled who lived in this Red Cross managed home before the Nazis took it over...

She told me that the home was ordered to be emptied. Families unable to fetch their loved ones received death certificates after those remaining behind were transported to a killing center and murdered...

After WWII, the home again returned to its original owner, the German Red Cross, and today again houses the elderly, the infirm, and those needing extra care...

Authoritarians despise the physically and mentally afflicted...

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