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6. What they "believe" in is a dream -

Reply to guillaumeb (Reply #5)

Sat Nov 28, 2015, 06:20 PM

Nov 2015

or, as I like to call it, the American Nightmare. Everyone thinks they are one lottery ticket away from being a "rich person", and if that doesn't work out they simply don't want Joe down the street getting anything "for free". That is the mindset we are dealing with.

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