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You have food stamps, cheap oil and electricity, unemployement smaller than 10%, and if you are homeless you can move to a state that doesn't have winters capable of killing you.

People in Eastern Europe save money and 50% of Americans can't?

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41% of working age Americans are jobless. The official unemployment calculation is a joke.

Whoa, we're gonna need a source for that kind of fact.

there would be civil war if this were remotely true. ever think about those "facts" for a second?

He's probably referring to the employment rate, which was 66.6% in 2011 according to OECD numbers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employment_rate

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