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Mari333 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-04 08:33 AM
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15. People are getting by? How??
Dumping their health insurance they could once afford, which drives up costs in general, driving without car insurance (in Michigan its mandatory), which results in higher arrests and higher costs, in credit debt up to their eyeballs with 21% interest on their credit cards (which are handed out like candy ), selling their furniture (my mom did to afford medication), filing for bankruptcy, working 2-3 jobs at 5 bucks an hour, picking up bottles and cans to get food monies , burning wood (where I live) to keep warm...we had a rash of HOUSE fires here, some people died this winter, and Wal Mart reaps the profits of cheap slave labour goods..
what a set up for corporation short term profits ..and where is the consumer base? Not in the US...people cant afford to have their teeth fixed, their medication, their kids vaccinated, the food they eat is cheap crap and they are literally starving (obesity in the poor is a poor diet, i.e. a form of starvation), and people are dropping dead or sick
add to that the drug dealers will grow larger, as they do around here, because it makes MONEY...a lot of money...
what the Bu$h policies have done is create MORE despair and MORE criminal behaviour out of desperation..
and children will be the victims of the ever increasing domestic violence as parents try to cope with the stress of just getting by, barely..
thanks to:
blackhearted CEOs and prostitute Politicians.
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