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Friedman Tweet-Slammed

Quote of the Day

July 1, 2013

‘The Wealthy Man Who Worked for 1 Employer for 30-some Yrs again lectures Middle Class on need to Re-Tool Self’

Michael Powell, a columnist on

New York City for the New York

Times, tweet-slammed fellow New

York Times columnist Thomas

Friedman for a column he wrote

about how the decline of the

middle class is a contributing factor

to why there are now “so many

popular street revolts in democracies,”

such as Turkey, Brazil, Egypt, Israel,

Russia, Chile and the United States.

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