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Jim Hightower, Truthout: 'Many of us view the deficit ceiling brouhaha between the Obama White House and the laissez-fairy extremists in the Republican House as some combination of farce and fiasco. So much political playacting around a made-up deficit 'crisis' in order to avoid dealing with the real deficit that is crushing America s middle class and draining the lifeblood from our economy: the jobs deficit. But wait - before I could work out my anger over that fiasco, here came an even more incredible farce.'

http://www.truth-out.org/downgrading-america/1312981161

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The Rich Are Different - And Not In a Good Way

By Brian Alexander

Their life experience makes them less empathetic, less altruistic, and generally more selfish.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28808.htm

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As Go Unions, So Goes the Middle Class
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/08/10



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