America's Municipal Meltdown: It's Tough Times for Troubled Towns


	America's Municipal Meltdown: It's Tough Times for Troubled Towns

JICWyllie

2-23-2009 5:53 AM

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economy, consumers, i-poverty, i-trend

JICWyllie says:

The time is nearly right for local community economies based on self-help and sharing to take over from the national, capitalist economy run by the people who lose "money" and borrow it by the trillion.

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