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White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain voiced his "impatience with complaints about rising prices for food, gasoline, and other stuff. The fact is the American people spend too much on a lot of junk. This behavior is only possible because they have more money than they really need to survive. Billions of people around the world live on just a few dollars a day." "How can they do this?" Klain rhetorically asked. "Well, they don't own expensive gadgets like most people in America do. They don't own motor vehicles. They do most of their traveling on foot to destinations...

The Democrats' political endgame requires citizens to accept subsistence as the new definition of freedom./snip/...Democrats tailor messages to disenfranchised groups explaining why each is not successful in America...Ultimately, every variation of the Democrats' message is premised upon removing personal responsibility from the equation and shifting blame elsewhere./snip/A person relieved of all personal responsibility and willing to submit to the government for basic necessities...simply subsists as a ward of the government.

<p>Anchorage voters spoke loudly and clearly to the Alaska Legislature in an advisory vote at Tuesday's municipal election. Their message: Let us vote on subsistence.</p>