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Spectral Music
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Sun Dec-21-08 01:51 PM Original message |
Tin Foil Hat: Was this economic recession engineered to permanently lower our standard of living? |
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Deja Q
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Sun Dec-21-08 01:52 PM Response to Original message |
1. And yet India and China have been raising middle classes with lots of people rushing to be H1Bs |
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billyoc
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Sun Dec-21-08 02:03 PM Response to Reply #1 |
10. Blake's 7?! Cut the shit! |
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shanti
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Sun Dec-21-08 02:36 PM Response to Reply #1 |
16. i hardly think |
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PDJane
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Sun Dec-21-08 01:52 PM Response to Original message |
2. Would that actually surprise you? |
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The Velveteen Ocelot
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Sun Dec-21-08 01:53 PM Response to Original message |
3. Read Naomi Klein's book, "The Shock Doctrine." |
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BrklynLiberal
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Sun Dec-21-08 03:29 PM Response to Reply #3 |
20. Yep. Very scary... |
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madeline_con
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Sun Dec-21-08 01:56 PM Response to Original message |
4. It's GOP union busting. They're saying, "Work for less or not at all." |
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Trajan
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Sun Dec-21-08 01:57 PM Response to Original message |
5. I think you are correct .... |
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lostnotforgotten
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Sun Dec-21-08 01:57 PM Response to Original message |
6. Raiding The Till For The Last Time To Shore Up Offshore Accounts |
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DJ13
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Sun Dec-21-08 01:58 PM Response to Original message |
7. Without a market comprised of consumers that can afford their products |
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Spectral Music
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Sun Dec-21-08 03:34 PM Response to Reply #7 |
22. Maybe the emerging middle classes in India and China will buy the products we make? |
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Davis_X_Machina
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Sun Dec-21-08 03:44 PM Response to Reply #22 |
23. A 'middle class' Indian or Chinese... |
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Spectral Music
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Sun Dec-21-08 06:08 PM Response to Reply #23 |
25. Just wait and see how far the American middle class is reduced in the next 20 years. |
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leftofthedial
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Sun Dec-21-08 01:58 PM Response to Original message |
8. it is not tinfoil to believe that the capitalists who own this country and its politicians |
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lligrd
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Sun Dec-21-08 01:59 PM Response to Original message |
9. I Think It Was Engineered To Raise Theirs |
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Warpy
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Sun Dec-21-08 02:06 PM Response to Original message |
11. No, it was engineered by a bunch of men focused on |
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Double T
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Sun Dec-21-08 02:07 PM Response to Original message |
12. Take off your tin foil hate; NOT required when dealing with truths. |
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lurky
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Sun Dec-21-08 02:10 PM Response to Original message |
13. I don't know, but I think the massive bailout was at least partly |
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elifino
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Sun Dec-21-08 02:14 PM Response to Original message |
14. The ultimate result of the rush to a global economy |
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FarCenter
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Sun Dec-21-08 02:33 PM Response to Original message |
15. The power elite are moving towards less inequality between countries and more inequality within |
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shanti
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Sun Dec-21-08 02:39 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. and never forget slavery |
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Hannah Bell
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Sun Dec-21-08 06:20 PM Response to Reply #15 |
27. yours = best answer. the inequality has to appear somewhere in the system. |
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KG
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Sun Dec-21-08 03:15 PM Response to Original message |
18. it was a culumnation of a 20 -year effort to permanently lower our standard of living |
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OPERATIONMINDCRIME
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Sun Dec-21-08 03:21 PM Response to Original message |
19. No. |
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killbotfactory
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Sun Dec-21-08 03:31 PM Response to Original message |
21. High standard of living for all = less profit for some |
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surrealAmerican
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Sun Dec-21-08 04:22 PM Response to Original message |
24. No. I think you are overestimating the intelligence and ... |
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dkofos
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Sun Dec-21-08 06:12 PM Response to Original message |
26. yes |
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Swamp Rat
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Sun Dec-21-08 06:27 PM Response to Original message |
28. No. It was simply the greatest heist in human history. |
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lifesbeautifulmagic
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Sun Dec-21-08 06:29 PM Response to Original message |
29. i don't know the answer to your question, but i have heard free/fair trade |
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natrat
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Sun Dec-21-08 06:42 PM Response to Original message |
30. engineered to create unstable conditions to soften us up for facism,afterall the bush clan are nazis |
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earth mom
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Sun Dec-21-08 07:06 PM Response to Original message |
31. Anyone who doesn't know that the powers that be are trying to take this country back to the 1800s |
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