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Except for The Ungodly Rich and The Dwindling Middle Class,
America is a brutal -- and brutalizing -- place.
The frigid encounter between America's Puritan-Protestant psyche and a personal God whose demands-and-commands displace compassion and mercy have conspired to create a Culture of Isolation in which shivering souls are so afraid of judgment they try to "beat the house" by passing judgment first.
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Bill Maher on America's Wealth Disparity
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/04/bill-maher-wealth-gap-in-america.html
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"The truth is we are all caught in an economic system which is heartless."
Woodrow Wilson