Sequester deadline looms as US faces $85bn cuts

[Hottentot]

Originally Posted by Glock30Eric

That is why I said the 17th amendment have sealed the America's future. The major cities all over the country took the helm of the America's direction. Imagine when a farmer decides to refuse to sell their crops to the cities because they are taxing them for their corruption practice? It happened back in the civil war. It seems that we have failed the history lessons or we were propaganda'd by the left.

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