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39. If it goes over your head, you must have stopped paying attention 20 years ago.

Reply to bhikkhu (Reply #36)

Sun Apr 28, 2013, 01:17 PM

Apr 2013

you had to have a class of wealthy who gathered all power and resources to themselves

Check.

a class of deprived, who are most importantly kept in a condition of need without opportunity to become wealthy, or to provide for themselves.

Check.

If I live close to the poverty line, yet I enjoy a good house to live in, good food, plenty of free time, and my family is safe and well, its hard to stoke fear and outrage.

Not in America in 2013.

Perhaps you are thinking of America in 1985 or even 1995. But since Clinton killed welfare, and the job offshoring killed our industries, and they let the assault weapons ban lapse, the situation on the ground does not resemble what you are talking about. Now we drug test food stamp recipients, and the number of gun deaths is about to surpass the number of auto accident deaths, and they are trying to kill Planned Parenthood - a major provider of health care to poor women.

I do not recognize today's America in what you write.

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I was kidding, but now that you mention it: Comrade Grumpy Apr 2013 #55

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