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You can see that in action in Roger and Me. Considering that's a movie from 1989, I guess that makes 20 solid years of very, very tough times around Detroit [one only has to see the Flint school shooting segment in Bowling for Columbine to see things were just as bad 10 years ago].

"It's the statue, man, The Statue."
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Mar 21st, 2007 at 12:28:25 PM EST
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Also, other art reference, may be more to the point of a nationwide problem, may be John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men, and The Grapes of Wrath.

He really describes a world of migrant homeless people who walk streets of empty, locked houses. Of hungry people who watch the government burn crops to eliminate over production and maintain grain prices after they have collapsed because nobody could afford to buy bread.

Pierre

by Pierre on Wed Mar 21st, 2007 at 04:23:59 PM EST
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