Our politicians congratulate themselves on this as we stand in line.

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Kerry voters may have been motivated by the war or the economy, but it seems that in this election, not enough of them felt strongly enough to go and stand in line to vote.

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But those who embrace this new investment framework stand to achieve double-bottom line results in the form of strong financial, as well as socially meaningful, returns that yield positive impacts on the environment and on communities around the world.

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Of course, this would require a new bureaucracy to administer the program and force working people with kids to stand in a line somewhere to apply.

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