How much safer will new gun control laws make you feel when you are standing in a bread line?

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More precisely you could promise the following: If by some chance this economy starts to take off and desired savings falls below desired investment then I will raise interest rates so far, so fast that it will crush every single investor in America, drive homebuilders into a ditch, shutter factories, skyrocket the Federal debt and put half the population on the bread line.

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Outside, a line of people wait to buy bread.

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Stacks of sliced white bread--given to his customers to soak up the juices--line the shelves.

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In a single post, "Life in Homs, " published June 14, Al details a single day: He goes out to a bakery, stands in a line that balloons from 11 people to 100, buys a dollar's worth of bread and returns home.

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On reaching the front of the line, I was handed a package, much the way you would be handed a loaf of bread, or a pizza.

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