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    • How badly is the middle class screwed, is Joe Stack a symptom of it and is Obama going to fix it?
    • What does privacy mean to you and is Orwell's 1984 here?
    • When is organized labor going to get serious about demanding protectionism like China and Japan?
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  • Quote: "The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class." -- Aristotle, Politics.
  • Member of the day was Zero G, who won a copy of "The Prophet's Way" for blogging:

    Jim Hightower on pigeons:

    “The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere.”

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