How Corrupt is the Economic System of the U.S.A. Today?
By Bob Kendall
08/05/2009
Political Cortex
That is the question. At one time the high standards of the American lifestyle were the envy of the world. That day is gone with the wind.
The 30 nation survey of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in 2008 placed the poverty rate of the U.S.A. only above Mexico and Turkey. The economic gap between rich and poor in the U.S.A. was explained in this report in the Seattle Times December 15, 2008: Read the rest of this entry »
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