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Examples
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(The mortgage companies will charge us responsible people more for our mortgages and other financial services to pay for the breaks they cut for the dead-beats and the spend-thrifts, at the behest of the federal government.)
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To Democrats Hate America: Who do you think is paying for all the American dead-beats who have no health insurance and insist on going to the emergency room for a hang nail?????
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* Well, I'm not going to tolerate the Demodweebs screwing up the quality of my health care – by, for example, overwhelming the existing pool of docs with an additional 40 million Medicare dead-beats – either.
Lieberman: I'll back health care bill without Medicare expansion 2009
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The so-called minorities make up the majority of all-around ‘dead-beats’.
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It will release pent-up market forces, incentivizing fleet-footed utilities to thrive and forcing the dead-beats to mend their ways.
Sunil Sharan: Deregulation, the Forsaken Panacea for Climate Change 2010
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It will release pent-up market forces, incentivizing fleet-footed utilities to thrive and forcing the dead-beats to mend their ways.
Sunil Sharan: Deregulation, the Forsaken Panacea for Climate Change 2010
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It will release pent-up market forces, incentivizing fleet-footed utilities to thrive and forcing the dead-beats to mend their ways.
Sunil Sharan: Deregulation, the Forsaken Panacea for Climate Change 2010
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It is quite true that my father was not liked by the would-be brothel operators, the wife beaters, the child molesters, the bootleggers, the dead-beats who failed to pay alimony, and others whom he expelled from the reservation for cause, but... he was esteemed and supported by the moral elements of the town.
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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It will release pent-up market forces, incentivizing fleet-footed utilities to thrive and forcing the dead-beats to mend their ways.
Sunil Sharan: Deregulation, the Forsaken Panacea for Climate Change 2010
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It will release pent-up market forces, incentivizing fleet-footed utilities to thrive and forcing the dead-beats to mend their ways.
Sunil Sharan: Deregulation, the Forsaken Panacea for Climate Change 2010
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