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Question by kscottmccormick: Tea Party sign: “Giving tax dollars to politicians is like giving…?
whiskey to alcoholics” is my best analogy. How would you finish the sentence?
“Curious,” ponder this:

In 2007, the total amount of money all poor citizens lacked to get above the poverty level was 148 billion dollars.
The amount the government spent to fight poverty that year was 550 billion dollars, but many people remained poor.
What happened to the extra $ 402 billion?
Okay, “No chance,” you got me. I know what a teabagger is, but what’s a sanchez?

Best answer:

Answer by Ricky
They just get drunk with more power.

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Friday night basketball: Taking a page from the Bad News Bears "Let them play!"
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Why Am I An Alcoholic in the News

Direnfeld: There are two definitions of an alcoholic
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Q: My wife thinks I am an alcoholic because I like three or four beers every day. I may only have one at lunch and a few more in the evening. I am never plastered. I tell her she is the alcoholic because she gets plastered almost every Friday night. I …
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7 Questions with Sarong Vit-Kory
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When they came to a rapid-flowing river, my father carried my mother across because she could not swim. In the refugee camp, my mother bore three girls. I am the second. What were the biggest challenges for your family when they immigrated to America …
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REDLANDS: Police party patrols on lookout for alcohol abuse – Press-Enterprise (blog)
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REDLANDS: Police party patrols on lookout for alcohol abuse Press-Enterprise (blog) Redlands police, mindful of Friday night's Redlands-Redlands East Valley Smudge Pot football game, will be out in force with extra officers to enforce alcohol laws and help keep the community safe Nov. 1 and Nov. 2. “Our ideal is to have no violations … and more »

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NIH Names Dr. George Koob Director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse … – National Institutes of Health (press release)
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NIH Names Dr. George Koob Director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse … National Institutes of Health (press release) National Institutes of Health Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., announced today the selection of George F. Koob, Ph.D., as Director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Dr. Koob is expected to join the NIH in January 2014 …

Just Do It
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Ernest Hemingway drank like a fish, if fish were raging alcoholics. He drank oceans of alcohol; not in your typical “Bro I had like, a thousand jager shots on Friday night” but in a manner best reserved for oil tankers. He was known to guzzle absinthe, whiskey, vodka, gin, tequila and champagne…with …
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She’s a Hurricane in All Kinds of Weather
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Yes, it’s going around again. As it turns out my supervisor has the flu and I’ve got sick people coming through my line all the time. My little cousin is sick here at home as well, and I don’t know why I still call him little, since he’s in high school. But any who, here I am congested as ever and t …
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MARYLAND: Anti-Gay State Rep Gets Light Sentence For Two DUI Convictions
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Things You May Not Know About Edgar Allan Poe
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I stumbled upon a fascinating article on the Huffington Post about Edgar Allan Poe titled 11 Things You Didn’t Know About Edgar Allan Poe by Lynn Cullen. In the article, Lynn Cullen writes: On October 7, lovers of the mysterious and the melancholy mourn the death of Edgar Allan Poe. As is appropriat …
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brEAThe – by Murial Brakefield……… This was the hardest book I have ever read but the most powerful one.
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This book is the hardest book I have ever read, but one of the most powerful ones. A gal from my bible study class suggested I read this book, she told me it was dark at times but it would really encourage me and give me hope. I never found it dark, yes it was hard to read about the incest and the s …
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How police tackle night-time drinking in Reading town centre
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Reporter Natasha Adkins went out with police on a patrol of Reading town centre on a Friday night to see the problems caused by alcohol abuse
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