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Wasting away again in Obamaville.
Looking for my lost shaker of salt.
Some people claim that George Bush is still to blame.
But I know.
It’s Barack Obama’s fault.

In the wake of the stock market crash of 1929, and in the depths of the Great Depression, shantytowns sprang up around America.

Called Hoovervilles, these itinerant communities came to symbolize the failure of the Herbert Hoover administration to deal with the economic calamities of that era.

We are now entering into Day 100 of the so-called Occupy Wall Street protest in New York City, and the movement has spread to other cities.

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