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Hooked on homemade crises

The Democrats love a catastrophe or crisis. It allows them to implement solutions to created problems that in normal circumstances the people would never allow.

The Democrats are hoping to exploit the Gulf oil spill to impose restrictions on every American’s freedoms unless you are rich enough to buy carbon offsets.

We must have immigration reform to restore fairness. Ask yourself, if the illegals were more likely to vote Republican would we be doing this? Rush has now relabeled them as undocumented Democrats.

Every time there is a school shooting, instead of allowing the schools to better respond to misbehavior with strict punishments, we must instead disarm law-abiding citizens.

The Democratic Party created the financial collapse by imposing regulations on lenders that required them to loan to those who could never pay them back. They said it was only fair so everyone could own a house. When it all went bad they blamed Bush.

Let’s try true campaign finance reform by ending the transfer of wealth to buy votes. Freedom from government reliance is the answer. Mooching is so easy even a Democrat can do it. America needs to end its addiction to government entitlements.

Rob Leach

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