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        <title>How lucky we are - nlange&apos;s Blog - Tehachapi News</title>
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                <title>How lucky we are</title>
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                <itunes:summary>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Times New Roman&quot; size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;How terrible for us all that the Republicans lost the election so badly on November 7&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt;. Now we&amp;rsquo;ll just have to grit our teeth and put up with the Democrats&amp;rsquo; crazy schemes. We know what they have up their sleeves: &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Times New Roman&quot; size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;1- Lowering college tuition costs, to let the riff-raff into our universities. Higher ed. is for the deserving, and you can tell who they are by their bank balances. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Times New Roman&quot; size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;2- Lowering prices for medicines, through government negotiations with the big pharmaceutical companies. Haggling is not polite. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Times New Roman&quot; size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;3- Raising the current low minimum wage that keeps the working poor desperate. If they&amp;rsquo;re not desperate, they might start demanding benefits. Can&amp;rsquo;t have that. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Times New Roman&quot; size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;4- Broadening stem cell research to find cures for more deadly diseases. Stem cells are &lt;em&gt;people&lt;/em&gt;, dammit. Can&amp;rsquo;t do research on people, even if they&#039;re the size of this period.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Times New Roman&quot; size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;5- Cutting subsidies for Big Oil and its stockholders. It would be rude to take dividends away from Mr. Cheney and both Presidents Bush.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Times New Roman&quot; size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;6- Enacting stricter miles-per-gallon rules for motor vehicles. This, too, would tend to make our chief executives poorer. We can scrimp a little on other things to pay for our gas.,&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Times New Roman&quot; size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;7- Keeping Social Security out of the hands of Wall Street firms to which Mr. Bush promised it. A promise is a promise. Do we really want our president to be a liar?&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Times New Roman&quot; size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;- Drawing down our military&amp;rsquo;s bloody involvement in Iraq&amp;rsquo;s civil war. President Bush has promised that he would keep it going till he left office. See question above. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Times New Roman&quot; size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;Luckily, Mr. Bush still has over two years left during which he can veto all of these foolish plans of the Democrat Party. (Notice how I leave off the -ic? It bugs them.) He&amp;rsquo;ll save America from the Democrats&amp;rsquo; intentions--just wait. We&amp;rsquo;re so lucky to have someone of President Bush&amp;rsquo;s caliber to protect the deserving from those others. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Times New Roman&quot; size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;nlange &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</itunes:summary>     

                
                
                
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