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As the health care debate continues, your representative is cowering in fear because there are people who vocally disagree with them.  Protests and angry mobs have a time and place.  For example, if you’re being refused entrance to your representative’s town hall by union thugs, this is cause for protest and anger.  If your representative is only answering “soft-ball” questions that seem to be pre-selected, this is cause for protest and anger.  If you see someone being beaten up by counter-protesters, this is cause for more protest, anger, and even violence.

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My parents weren’t rich growing up.  In fact, we lived in poverty.  Things are different now, of course, but they made it through without government help because, quite frankly, they didn’t know who to ask or what was available.

They didn’t take food stamps, or WIC, or anything like that.  They just worked hard to raise my sister and me.  Save as much money as they could, bought a house in the suburbs, and sent us to college.

This is the American dream that I know.  You come from nothing and raise a family.

I don’t understand why people see the government as someone to take care of them.  My parents didn’t have to get help from the government.  Why should anyone else?

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