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No Elephants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 07:18 AM
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43.  IMO, most people, regardless of class, are still fast asleep, but the top 1%
haven't needed vigilance--enough of them have been VERY active-- and the rest of us have slept way too long.

As you said many are still asleep. I wonder if it isn't too late? I remember photos of police of the early 1900's beating, even shooting, laborers for the likes of J.D. Rockefeller. Wonder how far away from that we are?

And, yes, people in Egypt and elsewhere are finally rising up, but they are very, very poor people.

As far as preventing poverty for the middle lass, we have an shrinking middle lcass and a growing poor class, so perhaps "preventing poverty" and "middle class are both moving targets.
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