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purple_haze

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6. The pain you are talking about

Reply to OrlandoDem2 (Reply #5)

Thu Jun 12, 2025, 11:42 AM

Jun 2025

took decades, in some cases many decades, to reconcile. Tanking the economy will hurt the poor the most. And everyone else will suffer along with them. Except for the rich who are virtually unaffected day-to-day by a tanked economy. So they can't buy a brand new Learjet and have to settle for one that's 20 years old, oh no.

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