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Everything in America is so uniform. In Russia, everywhere you go is completely insane.

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I think that if you're a thinking person you should always be trying to learn something new.

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I'm a product of an East Coast liberal arts educational system.

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I mean, people who say that the Tea Party isn't a grassroots movement, I think, are incorrect. I think in some respects, it is a grassroots movement.

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The average Tea Partier is sincerely against government spending - with the exception of the money spent on them.

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At root, the Tea Party is nothing more than a them-versus-us thing.

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In the Tea Party narrative, victory at the polls means a new American revolution, one that will 'take our country back' from everyone they disapprove of. But what they don't realize is, there's a catch: This is America, and we have an entrenched oligarchical system in place that insulates us all from any meaningful political change.

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It would be inaccurate to say the Tea Partiers are racists. What they are, in truth, are narcissists.

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Wall Street has turned the economy into a giant asset-stripping scheme, one whose purpose is to suck the last bits of meat from the carcass of the middle class.

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By incentivizing Wall Street players to sniff out inefficient or corrupt companies and bet against them, short-selling acts as a sort of policing system; legal short-sellers have been instrumental in helping expose firms like Enron and WorldCom.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: March 2nd, 1970

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