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John Fante

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4. No surprise. When unemployment is this low, labor shortages

Reply to IronLionZion (Original post)

Sat Mar 3, 2018, 02:03 AM

Mar 2018

follow. That's why I found the "won't someone please think of the poor working class whites" talk in 2016 so silly. You would think they were in living in the dust bowl the way everyone were carrying on.

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