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PatSeg

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10. With no real concept of what all government does for them,

Reply to markodochartaigh (Reply #9)

Sat Mar 15, 2025, 04:26 PM

Mar 2025

well at least until those services fail them. Most of them have been sold a bill of goods from the actual people seeking public office. Somehow they don't see the irony. What an artful scam, one that has been going on for decades.

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