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Emelina

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Sun Nov 23, 2014, 11:43 AM Nov 2014

Mellenials being screwed by powers-that-be in USA and Britain. [View all]

Economist Guy Standing gives a pretty good overview in this interview:



I guess I am sick and tired of a corporate press telling young people that everything is great. Give the public a break. The 1% are getting richer and richer and the middle class is dying. The working class makes too much to get welfare but not enough to survive. And we are told that things are so good that people just can't wait until Black Friday to max out their credit cards for junk they can't afford and which will be old and boring in less than a week upon opening the packages.

The Democrats have failed us and now people are going to find out the Republicans are just as bad if not worse. I guess nobody speaks for the young people living at home at age 30 too scared to get married and start families.

American is on the way out unless we get someone in there with the ideals of an FDR or Theodore Roosevelt.
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