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The President has suggested improving our infrastructure and the tea partiers cry no big government. Here's something to think about - after the 1972 flood of Eastern PA, our "big government" reinforced the levies on the Susquehanna River. This past weekend most of those levies held, even though they were under extreme stress. If those levies would not have been reinforced by our "big government", the flooding and loss of life would have been catastrophic. What would the tea partiers say then?

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