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I look at these stories and think about the end of “No Country for Old Men,” where Chigurh, having left a trail of dead bodies and blood, wanders off into an uncertain future, himself battered and bruised–but not bowed–by his bloody work. The ambiguous, open-ended conclusion to the film is as frustrating as the uncertainty our country faces as we continue our slide into recession, depression, and utter disaster. America truly is no country for the middle class, the working class–for anyone, really, but the idle rich at the very top of the heap. And even they cannot rest easy, knowing that the roll of the dice or the flip of the coin could someday claim their wealth, their lifestyle, their social standing, and their careers. Just ask the current and former CEOs of Bear Stearns.
What little was left of the middle class is no all but decimated entirely. The gap between the rich and the poor is stretching apart by leaps and bounds on an almost day-to-day basis...
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