With the economy in a rut and anxieties about national security festering in the nether regions of America’s social conscience, it’s minorities—immigrants, outsiders, heathens, you name it—who now, as in the past, bear the brunt of the backlash. Tolerance sounds swell so long as the Dow cries kowabunga. But when fat cats go belly up and “real Americans” fill unemployment lines,… return to article
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Reader Comments (1)Page 1 of 1 pagesShould probably deport the billionaire investors like Warren Buffet who are criticizing American Manufacturers then taking the money they have made from them over the years and dumping it into foreign markets. Great that GM and Chysler can walk away from their debts…. and all the American Debt holders LOSE… then they become foreign manufacturers and import products back to the USA. Who will have the money to buy those Malibu’s and Minivans? Wealthy people don’t buy them.
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