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Agreed Fox and Ravens Send a noteboard - 02/08/2011 03:06:48 PM
I've been to rallies where someone had their kids along and handing them some posterboard and crayons/markers gives them something fun to do, so I'm nominally fine with that, but however much I might agree or disagree with whatever point someone is making, and while I hardly consider it abusive or anything, I just think kids shouldn't be involved like that.


The great majority of those kids have no idea what their signs actually mean. Their essentially just being used by their parents. If they do know what they're holding the sign for and what it means, it's only going to be what their parents told them anyway. I don't like it because it's a sympathy tactic and generally doesn't have relevance.
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Would anyone like to answer this little girl's question? trzaska2000 - 02/08/2011 02:47:24 PM 948 Views
Oh, that is easy. jh - 02/08/2011 02:58:56 PM 421 Views
Because your mommy and daddy would rather write a sign for you to hold than pay taxes. Joel - 02/08/2011 03:00:24 PM 413 Views
Bull - fucking - shit. Tom - 02/08/2011 05:23:51 PM 459 Views
Re: Death panels! Gaps - 02/08/2011 07:21:47 PM 419 Views
It wouldn't bother me so much if he didn't know that very well. Joel - 02/08/2011 08:37:38 PM 413 Views
I'm 36. *NM* Tom - 03/08/2011 12:52:37 AM 140 Views
Huh, don't know where I got that then; sorry. Joel - 03/08/2011 10:57:40 AM 374 Views
Holy crap, I hate the new laptop sometimes. Joel - 03/08/2011 10:57:41 AM 330 Views
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M Joel - 03/08/2011 10:57:42 AM 360 Views
I support death panels. *NM* Tom - 03/08/2011 12:51:32 AM 138 Views
Entitlements are part of the problem, but far from the whole of it. Joel - 02/08/2011 08:31:23 PM 438 Views
Believe it or not, I sympathize Larry - 03/08/2011 01:16:33 AM 362 Views
Completely agree with you. Timthetrolloc - 03/08/2011 05:12:23 AM 375 Views
Believe it or not, I agree. Tashmere - 03/08/2011 03:07:48 AM 346 Views
I don't think it makes you sound heartless at all. Ghavrel - 03/08/2011 10:35:04 PM 358 Views
That's awful. I'm so sorry. *NM* Sareitha Sedai - 04/08/2011 07:35:45 PM 142 Views
I don't think it makes you sound heartless. Sareitha Sedai - 04/08/2011 07:47:36 PM 410 Views
I wish people wouldn't have kids hold signs Isaac - 02/08/2011 03:02:09 PM 430 Views
Agreed Fox and Ravens - 02/08/2011 03:06:48 PM 380 Views
Completely agree. snoopcester - 02/08/2011 03:19:31 PM 344 Views
Agreed. *NM* everynametaken - 03/08/2011 01:28:03 AM 141 Views
aww sweetie Yunalesca - 02/08/2011 03:58:53 PM 390 Views
It is better for the economy Wibble - 02/08/2011 07:15:58 PM 383 Views
not just credit Yunalesca - 02/08/2011 10:35:41 PM 338 Views
im guessing my analogy is correct Yunalesca - 04/08/2011 03:08:36 PM 357 Views
Well Wibble - 04/08/2011 07:38:48 PM 331 Views
ah ok Yunalesca - 04/08/2011 08:15:06 PM 342 Views
Just one thing snoopcester - 04/08/2011 08:21:33 PM 334 Views
Of course Wibble - 04/08/2011 08:41:41 PM 357 Views
Because successive governments thought that spending more while taxing less was a good idea. Stephen - 02/08/2011 06:25:16 PM 387 Views
Because you got your Bachelor's at a technical school. *NM* TaskmasterJack - 02/08/2011 10:11:14 PM 145 Views
yes you should have gotten a lit degree from harvard *NM* random thoughts - 03/08/2011 05:54:45 PM 133 Views
Like the writers from the Simpsons? Awesome. *NM* TaskmasterJack - 03/08/2011 09:44:26 PM 142 Views
it is random thoughts - 05/08/2011 05:57:44 AM 339 Views
You don't. No-one is going to send debt collectors round to demand $46,000 from your piggy bank. Tim - 03/08/2011 04:29:59 PM 366 Views
I don't see the difference Isaac - 03/08/2011 05:31:28 PM 369 Views
I guess you have never heard of the IRS *NM* random thoughts - 03/08/2011 05:53:39 PM 135 Views
Because your parents bought too much booze on their credit cards *NM* wadsy - 04/08/2011 01:50:13 PM 160 Views
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