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In 2019, on this the hundredth day since a private cartel of Chinese investors forced the Fed to shutdown non-emergency government programs, President Garry Swiftcurrent addressed the bankrupt nation from his rented office suite in the Western White House, a shared condominium in California.
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American CenturyBeing careful to avoid making direct reference to the condition of vulnerable persons, he welcomed the growing self-sufficiency of Welfare-dependent citizens. This encouraging development was just one of a number of signs that America's best days were still ahead. It was a necessary adjustment, a correction imposed by the market in response to America's profligacy.
The message was beamed across the country by a Chinese satellite, launched by rockets set to place a man on the moon within the next twelve months.
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