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15% of Americans live in Poverty

The Washington Post reports that 1 in seven Americans live in poverty.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/16/AR2010091602698.html?wpisrc=nl_pmheadline

What happened to The American Dream?

It is time to start implementing a Free Life On Earth.

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David Lipschitz said…
2 million houses in foreclosure in the land of the free, the USA; another 2.3 million to go. These are all houses where families paid good money to banks to own the houses, but the minute there is a recession, which one could argue has been engineered because the banks are printing too much money, the banks suddenly owned the houses. And one can see from the article how greedy the banks are to get the houses onto their books as soon as possible: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/15/AR2010101506541.html?wpisrc=nl_headline

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