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GiveMeFreedom (445 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-21-09 08:34 PM Original message |
What happens in a total collapse of the economy? |
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geckosfeet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-21-09 08:37 PM Response to Original message |
1. Talk to your local municpal authorities. |
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natrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-21-09 08:39 PM Response to Original message |
2. rent the movie"children of men" |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-21-09 08:41 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. And 'Soylent Green' too!!!!11!!!!1 |
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natrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-22-09 08:27 AM Response to Reply #3 |
80. nah, soylent green was more cheesy scfi |
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Bolo Boffin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-21-09 08:43 PM Response to Reply #2 |
7. And while that's based on a collapse of reproduction in the human species |
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GinaMaria (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-22-09 11:46 AM Response to Reply #7 |
87. seriously, weddings and babies are a huge chunk of the economy. eom |
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Mojorabbit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-22-09 03:34 PM Response to Reply #2 |
90. That was a great movie. nt |
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Stephanie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-21-09 08:41 PM Response to Original message |
4. Step 1 will be to arrest all those who predict total collapes of the economy followed by martial law |
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GiveMeFreedom (445 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-21-09 08:45 PM Response to Reply #4 |
9. I don't have a basement |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-21-09 08:42 PM Response to Original message |
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Why Syzygy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-21-09 08:47 PM Response to Reply #5 |
10. Alex Jones is an alarmist and probable agent provocateur. |
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waiting for hope (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-21-09 08:56 PM Response to Reply #10 |
15. Sorry - |
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GoesTo11 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-21-09 08:43 PM Response to Original message |
6. They will have to show more reruns |
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Vincardog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-21-09 08:44 PM Response to Original message |
8. IT will not be on TV because there will be no electricity. You will not be able |
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hay rick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-21-09 08:48 PM Response to Reply #8 |
11. And you won't be able to buy toothpaste. |
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olegramps (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-22-09 07:06 AM Response to Reply #11 |
77. Deodorant won't be available either making it a real stinking situation. |
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Mojorabbit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-21-09 09:45 PM Response to Reply #8 |
39. I am prepared for almost all of the above |
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Vincardog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-21-09 10:58 PM Response to Reply #39 |
51. Look into a wind mill |
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The Wizard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-21-09 11:45 PM Response to Reply #8 |
59. This sounds like Bush's Iraq (NT) |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-21-09 08:48 PM Response to Original message |
12. We have a ways to go before that happens. |
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stillcool (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-21-09 10:15 PM Response to Reply #12 |
47. I don't think Obama will be in charge... |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-21-09 11:14 PM Response to Reply #47 |
54. Nope. No. Nah. Nyet. Nein. |
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stillcool (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-22-09 12:22 AM Response to Reply #54 |
60. it could never happen here, right? |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-22-09 11:37 AM Response to Reply #60 |
85. Well, it hasn't. And we've had harder times when it should have, it if was gonna. |
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natrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-22-09 08:33 AM Response to Reply #54 |
81. please,our government does not work like it used to-the shadow gov does what it wants |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-22-09 11:30 AM Response to Reply #81 |
83. Hahahahahaha!! |
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OmahaBlueDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-21-09 08:51 PM Response to Original message |
13. The best, most recent example would be Argentina earlier this decade |
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Rosa Luxemburg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-21-09 08:53 PM Response to Original message |
14. ask Iceland |
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femmocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-21-09 08:58 PM Response to Original message |
16. I think there will be a run on wheelbarrows. |
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Mari333 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-21-09 08:59 PM Response to Original message |
17. que sera sera |
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GiveMeFreedom (445 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-22-09 12:40 AM Response to Reply #17 |
65. Ah !!! nice to laugh at myself!! |
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TomClash (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-21-09 08:59 PM Response to Original message |
18. Socialism or fascism |
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tekisui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-21-09 09:07 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. Does fascism lose some strength when markets collapse? |
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ret5hd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-21-09 10:14 PM Response to Reply #19 |
46. well, the nazi party followed the weimar meltdown. |
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TomClash (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-22-09 06:40 AM Response to Reply #19 |
74. The gov't is always there to protect markets |
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No.23 (517 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-21-09 09:12 PM Response to Reply #18 |
21. I'll take neither, thank you. |
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leftstreet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-21-09 09:17 PM Response to Reply #21 |
25. Where has socialism created a 'centralized, despotic, authoritarian government?' |
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No.23 (517 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-21-09 09:20 PM Response to Reply #25 |
27. Russia. China. |
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leftstreet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-21-09 09:27 PM Response to Reply #27 |
32. Is this satire? n/t |
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No.23 (517 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-21-09 09:32 PM Response to Reply #32 |
33. Baah! |
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cliffordu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-21-09 11:05 PM Response to Reply #33 |
52. "Sheeple" - |
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No.23 (517 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-21-09 11:18 PM Response to Reply #52 |
55. Actually, they graze on both sides of the axis. |
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readmoreoften (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-22-09 12:33 AM Response to Reply #27 |
63. How can someone who champions "the withering away of the state" be a "statist"? |
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No.23 (517 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-22-09 12:48 AM Response to Reply #63 |
66. Playgrounds for the real game of classism. |
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TomClash (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-22-09 06:48 AM Response to Reply #27 |
75. "Marx was a big fan and supporter of statist socialism" |
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TomClash (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-22-09 06:49 AM Response to Reply #21 |
76. It depends on the type of socialism nt |
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opihimoimoi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-21-09 09:09 PM Response to Original message |
20. Total collapse means money not good...no one works...food not delivered |
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No.23 (517 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-21-09 09:15 PM Response to Reply #20 |
23. No redeeming factors indeed, but only if... |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-21-09 09:15 PM Response to Reply #20 |
24. Which is why everyone's trying to prevent the collapse... |
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KakistocracyHater (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-22-09 12:57 AM Response to Reply #20 |
67. you're silly: 1 million or 2 |
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opihimoimoi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-22-09 03:24 AM Response to Reply #67 |
70. In a mega famine....food is money.....if it ain't food, or a means to food. its use is moot |
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KakistocracyHater (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-22-09 03:42 AM Response to Reply #70 |
71. what 'mega-famine'? |
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opihimoimoi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-22-09 04:16 AM Response to Reply #71 |
72. mega famines occur when consumption exceeds source..... |
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Xipe Totec (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-21-09 09:14 PM Response to Original message |
22. CEOs have to jet pool to work |
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Kip Humphrey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-21-09 09:19 PM Response to Original message |
26. Largest threat remains food shortages as the food delivery system begins to collapse. Spring |
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KillCapitalism (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-22-09 02:57 AM Response to Reply #26 |
68. It's funny that you mentioned migration. |
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olegramps (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-22-09 07:23 AM Response to Reply #68 |
78. There will be massive migration to the South since people won't have any clothes. |
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Kip Humphrey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-22-09 01:22 PM Response to Reply #78 |
89. Survivorman, Man vs. Nature... the education of the masses has already begun. |
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HughBeaumont (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-21-09 09:20 PM Response to Original message |
28. This, for starters! |
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stuntcat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-21-09 09:24 PM Response to Original message |
29. what scares me is the water |
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Mojorabbit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-21-09 10:02 PM Response to Reply #29 |
45. I have one of these |
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stuntcat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-22-09 12:36 PM Response to Reply #45 |
88. ty! I need to remember this stuff |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-21-09 09:25 PM Response to Original message |
30. Spare us your melodrama. |
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cliffordu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-21-09 09:59 PM Response to Reply #30 |
43. Yeah, What Bloo said. |
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canoeist52 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-21-09 09:25 PM Response to Original message |
31. total social collapse lke in the movie "Testament" 1983 |
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cliffordu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-21-09 10:00 PM Response to Reply #31 |
44. The best post-Apocalypse movie yet... |
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originalpckelly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-21-09 09:34 PM Response to Original message |
34. Ask the Soviet Union. |
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Lint Head (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-21-09 09:35 PM Response to Original message |
35. Take every penny the Bush Crime Family has and pay back |
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IndianaGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-21-09 09:37 PM Response to Original message |
36. Revolution! |
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thunder rising (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-21-09 09:49 PM Response to Reply #36 |
41. rightwing, better organized, and better armed? Don't count on it. And, I'll take intelligence |
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woodwrite (97 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-21-09 09:41 PM Response to Original message |
37. Definition: "Total collapse of the economy." |
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olegramps (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-22-09 07:29 AM Response to Reply #37 |
79. Sounds like you might be the best one to rob. |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-21-09 09:42 PM Response to Original message |
38. We feast upon the gooey innards of our neighbors! |
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RJ Connors (679 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-21-09 09:49 PM Response to Original message |
40. No one knows exactly what happens, that is the nature of Chaos |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-21-09 09:49 PM Response to Original message |
42. The dandelions will disappear from all lawns in the neighborhood |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-21-09 10:22 PM Response to Reply #42 |
49. With Mama Lil's Peppers, even that would be good! |
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1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-21-09 10:20 PM Response to Original message |
48. some dude, bigger than you, with a gun, will come to your house and take all of your shit... |
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RagAss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-21-09 11:24 PM Response to Reply #48 |
57. Size of a dude ain't important...size of the caliber you have is. |
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1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-21-09 11:42 PM Response to Reply #57 |
58. heh. that's my philosophy, i just thought the general consensus here was... |
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my2sense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-21-09 10:54 PM Response to Original message |
50. Looks as if we'll know soon enough |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-21-09 11:06 PM Response to Reply #50 |
53. Count me as one who denies that Mad Max was a documentary. |
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RagAss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-21-09 11:23 PM Response to Original message |
56. The Pugs can eat their Bush/Cheney bumper stickers ! |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-22-09 12:29 AM Response to Original message |
61. Native Americans buy back Manhattan Island for $2.40 . . . |
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bird gerhl (129 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-22-09 03:02 AM Response to Reply #61 |
69. "unregulated capitalism is merely organized crime" |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-22-09 06:00 PM Response to Reply #69 |
91. OK -- capitalism is also disorganized crime . . .. |
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area51 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-22-09 12:32 AM Response to Original message |
62. Kind of like Zimbabwe, I'd guess. (n/t) |
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Renwiick (240 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-22-09 12:35 AM Response to Original message |
64. Re-invention is what will happen |
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tom_paine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-22-09 05:02 AM Response to Original message |
73. Savage and Hannity enflame the 30,000,000 Knoxville Shooter Clones |
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wuvuj (874 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-22-09 08:53 AM Response to Reply #73 |
82. We now have soft fascism.... |
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TWiley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-22-09 11:32 AM Response to Original message |
84. The rich get profoundly richer, and the poor get profoundly poorer |
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GinaMaria (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-22-09 11:45 AM Response to Original message |
86. Watch Jerico |
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