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For a long time the real American Dream has been...

FrankC — 4/19/2014 12:35:44 AM (archived)

A home with a pool, two cars, and a voice in the oligarchy. For the blue collars it is the Union, For white collars it is management.

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Study - The US is an oligarchy, not a democracy. - bowser - 4/18/2014 11:24:37 PM
- Piketty - JEKing - 4/24/2014 7:51:43 PM
  - The French first identified this problem. - ER - 4/25/2014 12:12:11 AM
    - Re: The French first identified this problem. - JEKing - 4/25/2014 6:08:42 PM
      - My view of history is not quite so conspiratorial. - ER - 4/25/2014 8:08:35 PM
        
        Re: My view of history is not quite so conspiratorial. - JEKing - 4/26/2014 5:58:19 PM
        
        I guess guillotines are the only alternative. - ER - 4/26/2014 7:01:09 PM
- I say, "This is not news". - ER - 4/19/2014 12:08:13 AM
  - We all "knew", but this is the first hard research on the matter. And as mcfly says - - - - bowser - 4/19/2014 6:27:56 PM
    - I wouldn't exactly call it the first research on the matter. - ER - 4/19/2014 7:44:03 PM
  - "...the whole world is watching." - mcfly - 4/19/2014 2:18:49 PM
    - You mean like the Welfare Cowboy in Nevada? - ER - 4/19/2014 7:58:18 PM
  - For a long time the real American Dream has been... - FrankC - 4/19/2014 12:35:44 AM
    - Well, you can kiss the Union goodbye. - ER - 4/19/2014 12:52:40 AM

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