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You know, we poorz might ought to built a few guillotines, just in case.

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Also, e.g., dreads and tats, too. Also.

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Money is virtue.

Poverty is apostasy.

Ignorance is strength.

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If only we would sensibly cut some taxes, those children could stop with the drinking and skipping church and gambling and get themselves to work with the bootstraps and the job creators.

It's like listening to Sarah Palin speak, except with the playback slowed down.

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I note they also call Thomas Sowell an "economist."

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I knew there was a reason for poorness - unattractiveness! Soon these barnacles on the ship of Real American (tm) society will be asking for plastic surgery on the governments dime.

Damn, I feel stupid for not thinking of this before. Thanks Ben!

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Ben Stein is still alive?

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Say, didn't Ben Stein work for Nixon?

Wasn't Nixon famously a Jew hater?

Tell me again how smart you are, Ben Stein.

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because he fellates the douchebags who are ruining this country on a daily basis

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What does Ben Stein say?

Whatever the asshole paying him tells him to say- Stein is a fucking whore

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Ben Stein, proving that even the allegedly smart conservatives don't have a fucking clue how cause and effect works

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"Disastrously unfortunate appearance in amateur scat porn, like my mother in the Catskills, which is sort of tangentially related."

I think that's the full quote.

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"fight overweening government"

Barack Obama dick sooo big...

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Ben Stein would be embraced in North Korea. I watched PBS Frontline this week which revealed just how 99.9% of the North Koreans are truly fucked by that regime. Ben would love how the North Koreans just toss orphaned kids in the streets. I'm sure he would also enjoy watching the firing squads, death by flamethrowers or rabid dogs.

And as a reminder, let's remember why Ben is no longer a journalist: <a href="http:\/\/gawker.com\/5331835\/pitchman-ben-stein-gets-economist-ben-stein-fired-at-the-new-york-times" target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://gawker.com/5331835/pitchman-ben-stein-gets...">http://gawker.com/5331835/p...

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That's a lot of window dressing to basically say to the poors "Hey at least you don't live in some third-world hellhole, so suck it up."

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