New sky miles program

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#143
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But wait, didn't you vote for the rulers that give out the "free stuff"?? How is that any different? At least these people are paying for something. (sorry its getting boring on here since Flex got his WB B award).
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I voted for people knowing full well that I wouldn't be getting any free stuff and that they'd actually want to take more of the money I did make
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Yea because the .gov are such good stewards of your money. They draw down the strategic petroleum reserve with oil at 75 $/barrel(mid-term election political ploy) and refused to add 400 billion barrels back during covid at 20 $/barrel. Are they just gonna wait till it it's $100/barrel till they decide it would be a good time to fill 'er back up?
Care to point to a governing body of a large country who is doing it better?
The US government has a billion warts. I’ll take it, though, over just about every realistic alternative. TARP worked out pretty well - saved jobs while generating $11B for the taxpayers. You win some, you lose some.
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Yea because the .gov are such good stewards of your money. They draw down the strategic petroleum reserve with oil at 75 $/barrel(mid-term election political ploy) and refused to add 400 billion barrels back during covid at 20 $/barrel. Are they just gonna wait till it it's $100/barrel till they decide it would be a good time to fill 'er back up?
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To make a living and provide for their family? Yeah, I agree. People should get compensated for their work. We need a lot of people to work there to make it all function. The only difference is, a for-profit company is only accountable to their private and, often, anonymous investors. The government is accountable to the people through an election process.
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