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Today starvation is unheard of
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O RLY?
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unemployment is 4.8%
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Sure that doesn't have something to do with how
the measurement of unemployment has changed over the years? (Among other things, if you remain unemployed for an extended period, you're no longer counted. As of just several years ago, flipping burgers at McDonald's was changed to 'manufacturing'. Etc.)
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Yesterday an increase in gas price put people in the poor house. Today they get mad and skip their morning latte.
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Good to see you're concerned mostly with the people who had the money to blow on daily lattes to begin with.
People who are living paycheck to paycheck see rising fuel prices a bit differently. Really, are you limiting your examples of "how shit has changed" to what you know of the world by watching the middle class from the window of a Starbuck's?
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Gay marriage is an issue now because so many other issues have been solved.
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Oh, right, right. I guess I was mistaken. Here, I thought it was just a rediculous, emotional hot button that only comes up in election years and appeals to a culture that is constantly looking for the next boogeyman to blame all these "solved issues" on.