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It is easier to drive a stake through the heart of a blood-sucking vampire than to kill off a money-sucking and useless government program.

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Cal Thomas
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: December 2
Columnist
Journalist
Radio Personality
Washington
District of Columbia
John Calvin Thomas
Blood
Stake
Money
Stakes
Government
Vampire
Heart
Useless
Drive
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Kill
Easier
Sucking

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America's most dangerous diseases have developed an immunity to politics. We suffer not from a failure of political organization or power, but a failure of love.
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