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1. "Occupy something"
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 05:14 PM
Sep 2012

Before Bush, Americans spent 7% of their income on food and energy. Today - it's 20%. Working Americans pay 8% of their income on healthcare - more than any other nation in the developed world - and yet we get worse results. Meanwhile, the cost of housing for the middle class has gone up 34%.



"People are seeing that the system is rigged against them..."

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