"These heartless criminals are leaving people extremely worried and in a great deal of debt, " Mr Bettison said.

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" At a February meeting in Sea Bright, just up the shore from Long Branch, the town's mayor acknowledged, "People fear a heartless government coming in and taking away their land.

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"A lot of people assume I'm some heartless Yankees fan, " he said.

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But we shouldn't sort of assume that the other side is either heartless and doesn't care about sick people, or is some socialist communist who's trying to take over the health care system, or -- you know, we start getting into these caricatures of each other.

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Thus even minor proposals to restrain government spending elicit accusations that the proponent is callous, heartless, uncharitable, and un-Christian and the charges ring true to most people because Scripture has long-conditioned them to embrace the welfare state.

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