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Of course we have compassion. We just don't believe the safety net should be used as a hammock.

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Allen West
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: February 7
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I don't look to a man to get pride in myself. It's not about having a black president, it's about having a good president, and I think that's the most important thing.
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When you look what is happening in this country with the debt, the deficit, the CBO coming out and saying once again we're going to have a trillion dollar plus deficit in 2012, the fourth straight year, and unemployment may be going back up to 8.9 or maybe nine percent by the end of the year, these are serious situations that are going.
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When I retired out of the military, I registered myself as a Republican because my views and perspectives were more in line with that party.
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In the real world, I see conservatives volunteering at adoption agencies, at churches, at bake sales and the local American Legion Post while the only charity a progressive sends is a smug sermon on fair share and what fairness is.
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Compassion comes from a choice and not the liberal definition of a choice - the choice to say I can do with a little less so my brother can have a little more.
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Well, first of all, we've got to get away from being offended by the truth. We've seen a 41 percent increase in food stamp recipients across the United States of America since President Obama was sworn in in January 2009. That has nothing to do with black, white, Hispanic or whatever. It's a fact, and we need to, you know, deal with that.
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Where is love exchanged? Where is the love felt when a state administrator stuffs a welfare check into an outgoing mail?
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Every year, thousands of Californians flee that populous paradise for tax-eased small government oasis of America's red states.
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This liberal progressive agenda... is the antithesis of who we are as a constitutional republic.
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I believe there's about 78 to 81 members of the Democrat Party who are members of the Communist Party.
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No one talked about the fact that in this year under the Obama administration you've seen the highest casualties in Afghanistan. And the fact that it took him almost 90 days to figure out what his strategy is going to be was absolutely appalling.
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When you talk about raising that debt limit, the only way that I would ever support raising the debt limit if we also talk about budgetary controls on the federal government, capping its spending, how do we deal with the Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid problems, because they cannot continue to run on auto-pilot.
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