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1. Interesting post, thanks truedelphi. I agree that the voice of the people was heard in this case ..
Tue Sep 10, 2013, 03:15 PM
Sep 2013

... and that social media played a major role in that.

I also suspect there are other, unseen, forces at play. Certainly public opinion didn't have any bearing on gun owner background checks, so I wonder if they're listening to us - or someone else - this time.

Clearly our military spending is doing more harm to our nation than good, by far. Not only is it eating up dollars that should be going to infrastructure, education, healthcare, etc., it has made for disastrous foreign relations. If we spent a third of what we spend on military on foreign aid, the rest of the world would love us. Instead we make more enemies.

We need to continue to develop social networking that gets us better represented in Washington in 2016. We need to quit looking like this ...





And start looking like this ...

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