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Default Miss Manners on splitting the check at restaurants

On Wed, 10 Jan 2018 09:35:19 -0800 (PST), Steve La Wertz
> wrote:

>Bruce wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 9 Jan 2018 18:03:57 -0800, Taxed and Spent
>> > wrote:
>>
>> >On 1/9/2018 12:24 PM, graham wrote:
>> >> On 2018-01-09 12:02 PM, Casa estilo antiguo wrote:
>> >>> On 1/9/2018 11:44 AM, Taxed and Spent wrote:

>>
>> >>>>> For a regularly repeating $40 split meal subsidy?
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> Wow.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> must be a progressive.
>> >>>
>> >>> <VBG>
>> >> :-) Everyone who disagrees with T&S is progressive!:-)
>> >>
>> >
>> >Not everyone who disagrees with me is a progressive, but they are all
>> >equally wrong.

>>
>> If it wasn't for progressive people, half of the US would be trying to
>> shoot the other half and the US would have started WW3 a long time
>> ago. All your roads and bridges would be falling apart because taxes
>> are evil and only your millionaires would have healthcare.
>>
>> As an elderly Dutch journalist who spent half his life in the US
>> recently said: "The US is a third world country with a rich, white top
>> layer."

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>
>Utter nonsense...the poor in the US live far better lives than the European middle class...they've higher disposable income, they have far more luxuries and conveniences...
>
>Heck, in France they still use squat toilets and chamber pots...peeps croak during heat spells from lack of air conditioning...they have to save up for a few days to buy a cheeseburger even...AND the thieving socialist system ROBS folks of income, opportunity, and just basic everyday dignity.


I don't think you travel abroad much