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	Brown faces backlash over plan to cut housing benefit

paleblue

8-28-2009 7:12 AM

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paleblue says:

This is amazing cause you can see it happening here in the States too... The center us on this whole idea of 'no taxes' meanwhile everything under the sun goes up around us.. And we borrow from the 'evil empire and Red Communist regimes' the evil doers and Govt. controlled (socialism) countries..!! Amazing just amazing and the sheep sleep right threw it!!!

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