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Why is it that public benefits like housing or old age pensions which could be afforded in much less prosperous times are suddenly becoming unaffordable now?

How else is the Ueberklass supposed to get the more it so richly deserves without taking it from the rest of us?

by rifek on Tue Apr 26th, 2016 at 07:36:19 PM EST
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