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ajuc
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This 4×6 index card has all the financial advice y...
You have food stamps, cheap oil and electricity, unemployement smaller than 10%, and if you are homeless you can move to a state that doesn't have winters capable of killing you.
People in Eastern Europe save money and 50% of Americans can't?
MacsHeadroom
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41% of working age Americans are jobless. The official unemployment calculation is a joke.
idProQuo
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Whoa, we're gonna need a source for that kind of fact.
pinaceae
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there would be civil war if this were remotely true. ever think about those "facts" for a second?
humanrebar
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He's probably referring to the employment rate, which was 66.6% in 2011 according to OECD numbers:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employment_rate
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People in Eastern Europe save money and 50% of Americans can't?