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TBF

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31. You beat me to it -

Reply to JoePhilly (Reply #26)

Mon Feb 10, 2014, 05:54 PM

Feb 2014

they are much further back than the 1960s for sure ... I'm not the only one calling this the 2nd gilded age. Folks like Mark Zuckerberg being compared to Carnegie, Roosevelt and Mellon ...

The more things change the more they stay the same. At least for the poor ...

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