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closeupready

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8. If the tone is set at the top, then eventually, normal people

Reply to marmar (Original post)

Wed May 6, 2015, 10:12 AM

May 2015

will stop believing in our society and economy, as the 1% do as they siphon profits off to tax havens and lobby for exemptions from having to help finance the US government's spending. When that happens, you'll have a rise in a black market economy and increasing civil unrest (such as what we've seen recently in Baltimore).

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