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hobbit709

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2. They want you to pull yourself up by the bootstraps but they don't tell you

Reply to midnight (Reply #1)

Wed Jun 19, 2013, 06:16 AM

Jun 2013

that the boots are nailed to the floor.

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Big Lie: America Doesn't Have #1 Richest Middle-Class in the World...We're Ranked 27th! [View all] xchrom Jun 2013 OP

America loves the rich and doesn't want them to do without... However they don't think that midnight Jun 2013 #1

They want you to pull yourself up by the bootstraps but they don't tell you hobbit709 Jun 2013 #2

Thats a fact hobbit sorefeet Jun 2013 #4

We have our winner. Brigid Jun 2013 #11

They also don't tell you that they own the bootstraps and you'll be paying handsomely to use them. Arkansas Granny Jun 2013 #14

It really wasn't like that in the early, mid-'70s deutsey Jun 2013 #5

I think we have ALEC to thank for this.. midnight Jun 2013 #6

along with the infamous Powell Memo deutsey Jun 2013 #8

"there were plenty of problems the "counter-culture" movements created" --what do you mean? nt raccoon Jun 2013 #23

Drug abuse, for one deutsey Jun 2013 #24

Everybody was legally drinking and Rx drugging leftstreet Jun 2013 #28

Last I checked, heroin was illegal, yeah. deutsey Jun 2013 #32

By the late '70s deutsey Jun 2013 #33

K & R marmar Jun 2013 #3

K&R abelenkpe Jun 2013 #7

27th in the World - Bar none!! byeya Jun 2013 #9

This message was self-deleted by its author mother earth Jun 2013 #10

K&R - Median statistics are way more meaningful than average/mean statistics. reformist2 Jun 2013 #12

The inevitable corruption of capitalism fasttense Jun 2013 #13

We have the most millionaires & billionaires. We also have the most people in prison. baldguy Jun 2013 #15

K&R. HughBeaumont Jun 2013 #16

This is the REAL news in America.. mountain grammy Jun 2013 #17

Is this news?...America, who, during the 1960's, had the largest middle class in the world, whathehell Jun 2013 #18

Well, it's not about the size of the middle class muriel_volestrangler Jun 2013 #20

K & R. nt historylovr Jun 2013 #19

Walmart nineteen50 Jun 2013 #21

And it's going downhill fast TakeALeftTurn Jun 2013 #22

The USA is not a "First World" nation and never has been. hunter Jun 2013 #25

Not too sure about the "never" part truebluegreen Jun 2013 #26

If the USA was "never" a first world nation, no other country ever was either. Quantess Jun 2013 #30

Thom Hartmann once said that if our current average incomes had stayed up with inflation Quixote1818 Jun 2013 #27

We're number on... I mean 27! YEAH! sakabatou Jun 2013 #29

K & R n/t glinda Jun 2013 #31