Reply #9: It has been our New Beginning.

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We are no longer Good American Consumers.

If they are going to keep the Wars going, Increase Military Spending, and Bailout Billionaires while telling Middle Class Workers they must "compete" with 3rd World Slave Labor, they will do so without our help.

What we can't build/raise/grow ourselves,
we trade/barter/buy 2nd hand or salvage and make it work.

Next year, we will consume even less.