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sabrina 1

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12. There was a fairly comfortable middle class, though it was declining, and people tend to become
Fri May 15, 2015, 12:51 PM
May 2015

apathetic when they are doing alright. Since then things have rapidly gone downhill with each administration since Reagan, helping the decline by doing such things as 'Welfare Reform' and deregulation Wall St, allowing for the biggest heist in history causing the loss of homes, jobs and just about everything people had worked for.

A boom and bust economy, generally busts the working class.

College is a distant dream for many now, can't even work your way through the cost as students at one time could.

Those who manage to get there, have life long debt to pay off.

However finally, people are beginning to awaken from their slumber, especially they young whose futures they know are going to be far less hopeful than their grandparents' and parents' were.

They are remarkably well informed, see OWS eg, due to having had other means of information than the Corporate Media, another legacy of a president we thought would be working for the working class.

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