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Old 09-17-2009, 12:30 PM   #879
jinx
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Join Date: Nov 2003
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Originally Posted by Happy Monkey View Post
"Deserve" is another way to say "earned". You deserve something if you've earned it. And TheMercenary said "Yea, but everyone of those people earned it and made sacrifices to get it." as a retort to "Funny you would feel that way, after working in a government-run agency for so long, and receiving government-run health care.".
They've also earned their paychecks, so they deserve them. Notice I haven't said anything about the actual quality of their wages.

Mercenary earned his government-run health care thru service - good or bad, he deserves to receive it. I don't see anything funny, or complicated, about it...
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