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Dumbing Down the American Dream

Marc63 Wrote: Apr 25, 2012 9:28 PM

Well Mr President if Capitalism is broken the best way to fix it is to get the government out of every one's pockets, lives and business not to mention education. Simplify the tax system to a simple and I mean a real simple tax of say 10 % lessen the spending of the government, and let the free market work as it was meant too. Then the economy will grow like crazy and the debt/deficit will start going down and boom a healthy country will be. Oh yeah stop the class warfare crap.

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Dumbing Down the American Dream

Young Americans received unwelcome news this week when an April 23 AP report found 53.6 percent of college graduates under the age of 25 are jobless or underemployed, and there is little hope for improvement in the near future. This news is grim for young Americans as well as an administration in reelection mode.

President Obama attempted to dull the pain young Americans are feeling when he recently told a group of college students in Florida he “wasn’t born with a silver spoon in his mouth” then went on to blame the mess we’re in on capitalism. He described capitalism...

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