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    Yo-Yo Economics?

    Thu, 04/26/2012 - 19:04 EDT - Forbes.com - Top Stories

    In a free-market economy, individuals prosper to the extent that they contribute economic value to others. To Obama and his ideological kindred, social justice consists of government overseeing a compulsory redistribution of property from the productive to the unproductive.

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