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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-18-11 03:32 PM
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"AHEM" Maybe it's time for the poor of the world to let the ruling class know we outnumber them
Mon Jan-31-11 09:15 PM


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It's a good thread. Not that it means anything today............


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Davis_X_Machina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-18-11 03:55 PM
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1. Take the world as a whole....
...all 7 billion of us, and most of us here in the US are in the 53%. A lot of us are in the 1%.

The relative prosperity of even our least prosperous is made possible to no small extent by the extreme poverty of our planet's poorest.
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Rene Descartes Donating Member (59 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-18-11 04:14 PM
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2. If your demographic is the entire world, the entire US population...
is in the top 1%.
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RaleighNCDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-18-11 04:21 PM
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3. So says the propaganda.
Hungry is still hungry. Homeless is still homeless. Sick is still sick. Unemployed is still unemployed. Even in the richest country in the world.
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Scuba Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-18-11 04:39 PM
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4. Yeah, things change, you know? ...
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