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Toon: What the "Shining City on the Hill" has become... (Original Post)
n2doc
Jan 2012
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aptal
(304 posts)1. Is that the white house?
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)4. Your attempt at "humor" is a colossal
Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)7. it is when the (R)s are in it
So it changed depending on which party is in it? Interesting...
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)2. I have to say
the houses at the bottom of that hill look a bit too nice. Those folks need to sacrifice more to enable the 1% trickle down job creators.
Tansy_Gold
(17,855 posts)3. Those are definitely "middle class" dwellings
They need to be downgraded to peasant hovels as soon as possible.
MisterP
(23,730 posts)5. maybe the artist was using central Italy's villages as the model
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)6. Some of them might even have microwaves and internet access
I'll bet all you class warmongers never stopped to think that Marie Antoinette never had a microwave. And here's po' folk complaining about their lot in life, and they're doing better than Madame "Let them eat cake" ever did!