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   dtroutma said, 12 months ago

   Prohibition didn’t work either.
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   Ms. Ima said, 12 months ago

   Just say ‘no’ to Greece.
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   zoidknight said, 12 months ago

   @Ms. Ima

   And to France, and to Spain.
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   Bruce4671 said, 12 months ago

   Everyone seems to recognise the problem when it’s someone else. How’s that national debt thing going for US?
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   cjr53 said, 12 months ago

   Hmmm, I haven’t forgotten some infamous republicans that stated, “the debt doesn’t matter.” And other infamous republicans that started two un-funded wars on credit. Clearly the debt didn’t matter to them.
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   ossiningaling said, 12 months ago

   Clever as it is, I think this analogy would work better if the beer was usually free.
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   Gi Joe said, 12 months ago

   I’ll have two… uhhh, wait, do I have to pay for it?
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   ARodney said, 12 months ago

   The Republicans, if you look at what they propose if they get into power, still don’t give a darn about debt or deficits. It’s just a useful cudgel to beat Democrats with. And as much as they claim to hate deficits, they’ve proved through their actions that closing tax loopholes for rich people is a far, far more serious danger to be avoided.
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   olfart said, 12 months ago

   To quote a song by Jay Clark; Free beer tomorrow…
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    mikefive said, 12 months ago

    @Gi Joe

    No…I’m sure there’s a government plan that will pay for it.
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    mikefive said, 12 months ago

    @Bruce4671

    Substitute U. S for Europe and China for Germany.
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    jack75287 said, 12 months ago

    @dtroutma

    Well we are talking about spending here not drinking.
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    Quipss said, 12 months ago

    Funny thing, The french owe roughly 50% what the USA owes per capita and has roughly 80% the economy….
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    curtisls87 said, 12 months ago

    @ARodney

    And if one listens to the President, he previously cared about deficits (re: speech in March of 2006), and now is willing to raise debt ceilings at the drop of a hat. Neither the Republicans nor the Democrats really care about it. They are both culpable and to believe otherwise is naive.
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    MortyForTyrant said, 12 months ago

    Ummm… However went to any kind of Oktoberfest, especially the real one in Munich, would never think of “Temperance” as the leitmotif… Every year we have tons of people who need medical treatment and occasionally actual dead bodies from alcohol abuse. So the Bavarians are not the right people to talk to Europe, better find some Prussians, they are sober like heck …
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