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Zombies Are Destroying The Country

The deterioration in culture and tradition in America is truly mind-boggling, at least for one who has watched it for more than a half century. In my lifetime, we have gone from the so-called “Greatest Generation” to what might be described as the “Dependency Generation.” James Quinn, in his latest piece, provides a description of [...]

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Trust Is Gone

Capitalism and society run on trust. When that breaks down, so do markets and civility. In the extreme we describe such events using words such as collapse, depression, barbarism and the like. Trust is the shield that keeps us from needing these words. Is trust increasing or decreasing in our society? To anyone with his [...]

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WHO DESTROYED THE MIDDLE CLASS – PART 3

James Quinn provides the third installment of his series on the middle class: This is the 3rd and final chapter of my series about the destruction of the middle class. In Part 1 of this series I addressed where and how the net worth of the middle class was stolen. In Part 2, I focused on the culprits in [...]

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“A lost decade of negative income growth for the average middle class family”

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In a three-part series on Who Destroyed The Middle Class, James Quinn describes what has happened in the last ten years: When you dig into the charts and data supplied by the Federal Reserve generated report, the data which goes back to 2001 tells a story not addressed by the deceptive, manipulative, political propaganda that [...]

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The Cancer In Our Cities

There is an underclass in our society that few know about, yet it is growing and it represents the future for an economy that has stopped growing and is beginning to shrink. It is a society that could never exist before the age of welfare and its pernicious effects. At its extremes it is almost [...]

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