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EVICTION: It's going around in these troubled times. And we're nowhere near the bottom of the mortgage crisis or America's economic crisis.
Look at the video, from Dateline NBC. At what point . . . at what rate does this kind of trauma have to happen to ordinary Americans before something collectively snaps in the United States? At what point does the suffering of the middle and working classes crash head-on into Wall Street bailouts, golden parachutes and CEOs as robber barons?
What spark might -- will? -- ignite the leaking fuel tanks of our civic society, and how much will the fireball consume?
Look at the video.
How many people with nothing left to lose does it take to make our political leaders afraid . . . very afraid?
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