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Hardpan (18 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-26-06 03:01 AM Original message |
The High Anxiety of America's Middle Class |
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Cobalt-60 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-26-06 03:39 AM Response to Original message |
1. Perhaps we'll have that revolution after all. |
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Hardpan (18 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-26-06 03:30 PM Response to Reply #1 |
28. Unlikely. The Bonus March of 1932 was during the height of the Great Depression. |
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Javaman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-28-06 11:47 AM Response to Reply #28 |
36. I agree, but the difference back then was... |
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GOPBasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-26-06 03:42 AM Response to Original message |
2. This sums up my thinking in the last four or five years. |
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Why Syzygy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-26-06 04:14 AM Response to Original message |
3. The Economy is breaking up families... |
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Triana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-26-06 09:26 AM Response to Reply #3 |
9. My Mom & brother had to leave my town |
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maxsolomon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-26-06 11:57 AM Response to Reply #9 |
15. 8 hr. flight? |
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Hardpan (18 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-26-06 03:14 PM Response to Reply #15 |
24. They could have hit a head wind. Took me over 7 hours to get from HI to CA last time I flew. eom |
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Triana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-26-06 04:51 PM Response to Reply #15 |
29. Yes - there are no direct flights from here to there.. |
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maxsolomon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-26-06 05:36 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. i'm the same distance from my family |
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undergroundpanther (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-26-06 01:34 PM Response to Reply #3 |
19. Because for fundies |
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Sherman A1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-26-06 04:19 AM Response to Original message |
4. I have felt this way since the Esteemed President Reagan |
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snappyturtle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-26-06 11:22 AM Response to Reply #4 |
12. You are so right..... |
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tbyg52 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-26-06 11:32 AM Response to Reply #4 |
13. I also remember that as a dark time |
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undergroundpanther (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-26-06 01:43 PM Response to Reply #13 |
21. I hated regan |
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suziedemocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-26-06 06:17 PM Response to Reply #21 |
31. Feudalism!!! EXACTLY!!!!! |
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longship (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-26-06 04:29 AM Response to Original message |
5. Recommended and kicked |
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Why Syzygy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-26-06 05:36 AM Response to Original message |
6. K&R |
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ClintonTyree (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-26-06 05:47 AM Response to Original message |
7. How laughable is this? |
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pretzel4gore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-26-06 08:55 AM Response to Reply #7 |
8. when we remember the plunge protection team |
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Hardpan (18 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-26-06 03:21 PM Response to Reply #8 |
26. They also take people off the unemployment figure if they work part-time, one day per week as temps! |
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LiberalEsto (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-26-06 09:45 AM Response to Reply #7 |
10. Absolutely |
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eridani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-27-06 04:17 AM Response to Reply #7 |
34. Unnecessary employees of the prison-industrial complex-- |
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The2ndWheel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-26-06 10:02 AM Response to Original message |
11. What isn't part of our society? |
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Hardpan (18 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-26-06 03:11 PM Response to Reply #11 |
23. New jobs are paying 17% less, on average, then the old one did... |
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The Anti-Neo Con (402 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-26-06 11:46 AM Response to Original message |
14. I know things are bad for the middle class... |
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hatrack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-26-06 01:08 PM Response to Reply #14 |
17. Who are these "blue-collar Americans" you speak of? |
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Hardpan (18 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-26-06 03:15 PM Response to Reply #17 |
25. Most of us here on DU, dont you think? eom |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-26-06 07:52 PM Response to Reply #17 |
32. I think that should read |
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undergroundpanther (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-26-06 01:45 PM Response to Reply #14 |
22. The media |
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maxsolomon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-26-06 11:58 AM Response to Original message |
16. i can't even afford to see a psychiatrist! |
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hatrack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-26-06 01:09 PM Response to Original message |
18. Gee, Mort, did you slip on the porch and accidently ram a newspaper up your ass? |
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Tellurian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-26-06 01:35 PM Response to Reply #18 |
20. Really- ck this out.. |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-26-06 08:00 PM Response to Reply #20 |
33. An aspect of the aging of the boomers. |
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Hardpan (18 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-26-06 03:22 PM Response to Reply #18 |
27. LOL! Well at least Mort got the message out at last, eh? eom |
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Manifestor_of_Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-28-06 02:05 AM Response to Original message |
35. Mort's assuming too much |
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