Happy Americans?

"If you're happy and you know it clap your hands". With CNBC reporting consumer confidence at a 5-year high, there should be a din heard across the country with all those happy people.

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You can't hear it? No, neither can most Americans who are struggling against high unemployment, rising insurance costs, rising food prices, in fact, just about rising everything. To top it off we are spying on them, using the IRS to squelch their free speech, manipulation of their news, stealing their votes, and undercutting family values. So, who are these happy Americans? One has to wonder. No facts, just a statement as if it were gospel. If it isn't you and it isn't me (or anyone I know) then let CNBC tell us who these happy Americans are and why they are happy. Perhaps they have secure government or union jobs? Perhaps they receive benefits that we so kindly provide? Whatever the reason, those happy people must be known only to certain media outlets. Hillary Duke Englewood, FL

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