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of both actual dollars earned and the purchasing power of each of those dollars. They are also spending less money or they are slowly sinking into a sea of debt, as they become poorer and poorer with each passing minute.

The fear of becoming homeless causes desperate people to do desperate things. For every available full time job there are more than an a hundred people who apply for the job. I wonder, how many of those people will have to move to another place if they do get hired for the job in question? More often than not, that new job is a life changing experience.

The retired people among us are the hardest hit by such increases in both prices and the crime rate. You better believe that the elected politicians within the Government of the United States of America will not increase the Social Security benefits given to those retired people by 300%.

I would be very surprised if those retired people got a 10% raise, while 20% of that raise will go to an additional cost for Medicare. You better believe that the cost for supplemental health insurance will also rise, because prices and wages are not downwardly mobile.

High wage earners are fired and replaced with people who work for less money, while their former employers continue to raise the price of the products that they make for future expansion and continued profitability. The end result is that the organized labor unions, as they continue to lose members, become a less powerful voice of the working man or woman within the United States of America.

As much as I hate to say it, it now appears that the richest people on Earth have waged economic war against the United States of America and its people. Well, all of the above truly serious problems are most certainly due to the failed policies of a Republican Administration within the Public Offices of the grand and glorious buildings of the Government of the United States of America.

For too many years those Republican Party Members and some of those Democratic Party Members have ignored the wishes and the needs of the majority of the people within our Country and you now see the result of that neglect. As a matter of fact, all of us might have to suffer the effects of the greatest economic depression since the time of the "Great Depression."

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