1.0 link 114193 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/muhammad-sahimi/wish-to-be-poor-and-unemp_b_114193.html The price of gasoline has gone through the roof. The housing market has collapsed, with so many people losing their homes. The official unemployment rate is 5.5% -- with the true rate being closer to 8%. The price of food stuff has increased dramatically. For all practical purposes the economy is in recession. There seems to be no end to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Citizens' surveillance has kept increasing, with 1 million people being on the terrorist watch list....

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