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20 Ordinary Americans Take About Their Economic Despair
By Tyler Durden
Created 09/24/2013 - 20:07
Yesterday we highlighted the plight of Tom Palome and his cohorts [1] as they face a need to work well into once-thought-retirement age. However, there are hundreds of formerly prosperous communities all over America that are being steadily transformed into rotting, decaying hellholes. The good paying middle class jobs that once supported those communities are long gone, and they have been replaced with low paying service jobs if they have been replaced at all. When you visit those communities, it is almost as if all of the hope has been sucked right out of the air. The following are 20 quotes from ordinary Americans about the economic despair that is rapidly growing around them.
Source URL: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-09-24/20-ordinary-americans-take-about-their-economic-despair
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[1] http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-09-23/making-100000-then-flipping-burgers-may-be-your-future
[1] http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-09-23/making-100000-then-flipping-burgers-may-be-your-future
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