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The Great Depression: The sequel

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  • Wednesday, April 2, 2008 10:28 AM

    Let them eat hamburger!

    Big business took us by the balls and emasculated the middle class and poor of America. NAFTA, GATT, the WTO, the federal reserve, the dummied down populace, and our complicit government have left us behind as a 3rd world nation.

    It's too late for this or any forseeable generation to recover from the rape of our economy. As McBush said to the auto workers, you're jobs will not come back (they are now in foreign countries). All the printing of all the phony money will not stop the hemorrhage...the rest of the world no longer respects the dollar.

    It's over America, forget it!

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