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woo me with science

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14. Thank you.

Reply to kentuck (Reply #4)

Thu May 31, 2012, 03:13 PM

May 2012

There is a great illusion fed to Americans every single day, lies about ourselves and how we are doing.

Our corporate TV shows a thriving, upwardly mobile America.

They can get away with this sort of political misdirection, because many still think we have a middle class.

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