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All it is doing is trying to stop the inevitable, which is a shift in our economy to a more practical way of living, i.e. one not based upon debt to finance a living standard.— SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
I don't think the bloodletting that Dr. Barnett views as inevitable is in any real sense "inevitable," and those urging it -- both Democrats and Republicans -- are playing with genocide as though that's just a consequence of the world in which we live.— Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog
A current-day prediction of the inevitable could be another case of trading places and gray spaces: that of products and services.— Logic+Emotion
Giving low interest loans to people who couldn't spend their money wisely in the first place is wrong and giving it to people who are out of work will not do anything but prolong the inevitable, which is they will lose their house if htey don't get a job.— NewsOK.com RSS - home

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