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Old 02-05-2011, 02:57 PM  
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But first you have to take away their iPods, iPhones, iPads, smart phones, laptops, gym memberships, yoga classes, Starbucks, credit cards, SUVs, Sushi, cable television, low fat food, a lot more of their freedoms, and a million other things... you get the point.
Do you know how many people are unemployed or underemployed nowadays? Do you know how many people are getting foreclosed on? Thrown out of their own fucking houses for crying out loud. Those are people who don't have any of that stuff anymore and if they do they don't have anything to plug it into.


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It's gonna be a long time before anything like that happens in the USA. Gonna have to birth a new generation in poverty and leave them with no hope, no future and very little freedom, if any.
A suddenly impoverished people who were accustomed to a comfortable middle class lifestyle can make for a dangerously angry populace.

More dangerous even than those who've never tasted prosperity.

Kind of like what happened in Germany in the 20's and 30's.
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