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America's dumbest decade yet?

 
http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/5371/the_decades_top_ten_quotations/

The decade 2000-2009 in America, reduced to 10 quotes.

I’ll just snip a voice for the rich

“$500,000 is not a lot of money, particularly if there is no bonus.”Wall Street compensation consultant James Reda on Feb. 3, 2009, giving the New York Times a good example of just how totally out of touch the super-rich really are.


and one for the poor

“Keep your government hands off my Medicare.”Anti-health care protester at an August 2009 congressional town hall meeting in South Carolina—the single most succinct sign that our country has become an Idiocracy.


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