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The Bare Market photos are pure genius and remind me of the great photographer William Christenberry views on life South of the Mason-Dixie Line from way back when. These current Bare Market photos, at least of the US, speak for themselves.... I'm all too happy to see the media finally pick up on the tattered world I live in - a world of forgotten cracked up parking lots in front of empty strip malls to nowhere... The shanty towns from the Depression era that have cropped up everywhere, though just out of sight, are there - if you choose to look for and see them. Like the old song said - we paved over paradise - (decades ago) - to put up a parking lot - even though we all knew our greedy way of life was unsustainable: Time has exposed the lies we told ourselves to justify our selfish consumerism.
Muhammad Yunus' book BANKER TO THE POOR just might offer the solutions we need to start with to get ourselves out of this collective Depression era styled mess that we have made for ourselves since Reaganism, years ago, ignited this mess.

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Posted By: arcangelhero @ 10/30/2009 4:48:23 PM

ok...the Bethel island photo holds no credit due to the fact that those boats have been there for years and years...Im from RIo Vista and currently an FC3 in the USN.
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Posted By: ohioillustrator @ 06/20/2009 12:10:05 PM

The Bare Market photos are pure genius and remind me of the great photographer William Christenberry views on life South of the Mason-Dixie Line from way back when. These current Bare Market photos, at least of the US, speak for themselves.... I'm all too happy to see the media finally pick up on the tattered world I live in - a world of forgotten cracked up parking lots in front of empty strip malls to nowhere... The shanty towns from the Depression era that have cropped up everywhere, though just out of sight, are there - if you choose to look for and see them. Like the old song said - we paved over paradise - (decades ago) - to put up a parking lot - even though we all knew our greedy way of life was unsustainable: Time has exposed the lies we told ourselves to justify our selfish consumerism.
Muhammad Yunus' book BANKER TO THE POOR just might offer the solutions we need to start with to get ourselves out of this collective Depression era styled mess that we have made for ourselves since Reaganism, years ago, ignited this mess.
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Posted By: braxtonandkyra @ 03/11/2009 9:45:32 AM

Dear Colleena T,
Not everything that we read are sad. Your letter tell me that everything will be OK. Thank you. The media have to write something that will "sell". Good news does not sell. If they can not sell the "news", their company will close and the writer will be out of work. Read the news then recycle the paper.
Fernando S.