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Govt- Politics 8/14/2008 at 10:36 AM EDT

Do We Really Have Any Control Over Our Current State

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Do We Really Have Any Control Over Our Current State

Are you fed up with high gas prices, causing rising prices in groceries and seemingly affecting the cost of almost every move we make? Doesn't it just burn your ass that we feel so helplessly held hostage by everyone who sells us anything while their CEO's and corporate owners are making record breaking profits, enjoying the good life as never before to the point that rising costs are a trivial news item for them as we struggle to fill our gas tanks to get to work and keep decent food on our families?

Do you believe that there's anything that we can do, aside from voting, to affect the people who are causing these problems or do you believe that this is just the natural course of our economy and we should just ride it out?

Or do you believe that there's much more to it than that and that we are up against forces who have designs to alter the very fabric of our country, endangering more of our lives than they already are and we need to take action?

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