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who are the 10%?
Published Oct. 12, 2008
The vast majority of Americans are dissatisfied with the direction of the country. So who are the 10 percent who think everything is A-OK?
By Steve Tuttle | Newsweek Web ExclusiveOct 11, 2008 | Updated: 5:01 p.m. ET Oct 11, 2008
The article concludes:
“I'm betting the NEWSWEEK poll's 10 percenters are like the ones I met on Pennsylvania Avenue: überoptimists who see this financial-core meltdown as "just a flesh wound," like the Black Knight in Monty Python's "Holy Grail" who keeps fighting after King Arthur lops off his arms and legs. "I've had worse," the knight says. So has the United States, and maybe that's what the "satisfieds" understand that the rest of us don't.”
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America is a very lucky country. We have an amazing infrastructure, arable land, a temperate climate, vast raw materials, and a free, democratic society. Our people are at core innovative, charitable, friendly, and community oriented. Things have certainly been better, but a bad day in the life of an average American citizen is 100 times better than the best day in the life of 50% of the world. No matter what may come in the weeks and months ahead, I know with certainty that I have been immeasurably blessed to be born American.
Turn off the news; put down the newspaper; listen to your heart. As you hear the refrigerator hum, the bacon sizzle in the frying pan, the birds chirp in the trees, or the children playing in the yard down the street, you too will be thankful for being an American, at this time or any other.
God bless you all. God bless This Land.
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To keep everyone calm, the experts will tell you how the stock market works. And I quote: "All That Money You Lost - Where Did It Go? Surprise! It Was Never Really Money In The First Place" http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/11/national/main4515429.shtml?tag=topStories;secondStory
My Answer to that is that it was real money when I put it in the stock market in the first place.
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October 12, 2008 8:08 a.m.
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October 12, 2008 7:55 a.m.
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October 12, 2008 7:53 a.m.
Only to watch it all disappear when the market collapsed.
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October 12, 2008 7:16 a.m.
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October 12, 2008 5:41 a.m.
And none of that would be possible if it were not for stupid people who insisted on living paycheck to paycheck, never putting a single penny behind them to tide them over so they were not forced into emergency sales of assets.
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