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I'd love to know what he says about Social InSecurity after conceding the unfairness of the payroll tax, as originally created by Democrats!

The last thing to do during a real estate bubble is to give someone $5,000 to help buy a home. Home prices in affected markets will simply increase by $5,000 and the net result will be close to zero help for homebuyers. What will happen if and when the bubble crashes is best left to the imagination, but I'm guessing people won't be too grateful to Edwards when on the way down :-(.

He's right that government has been perverted by the efforts of the favour seekers: The big businessmen, the big labor unions, the trial lawy...um. Edwards IS a trial lawyer, and I'm 99% sure he's been a pretty effective favour seeker in his day. After hearing this speech, the first thing I'd do is dig a little and see what kind of favours he's sought. I'm willing to bet there's enough there to make him redfaced, and maybe even enough to make him withdraw.

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The first lawyer elected Speaker of the House of Representatives--Jonathan Dayton--was arrested for conspiracy to commit treason. That was in 1807. Didn't take lawyers long to get in there and corrupt the system.

(the first Speaker was a minister, the second was in the oil and shipbuilding business, Dayton was the third).