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3rd and Main (newer version)

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He was never more right "Government IS the problem".  Right across the street from the back side of the Ronald Reagan State Building,   people are sprawled out, hungry cold, tired, pale around the edges an imagine struggling to be seen. The entrance to the building is on Spring Street, around the corner where, like the street’s name, everyone has it in their step. You can see it, they walk fast, the way people who have somewhere to go walk fast. On Main, the side where the entrance isn’t early pedestrians scramble too to get to…get away. “Get away, shoo” They shoo away panhandler’s pleadings with a turn of the head tune them out with a blast of their car stereo hoping the radio waves will push them away.   In the shadows of the Ronald Reagan “the great communicator” State Building people shake and shiver in the streets flag their hunger, frustration, sickness in proximity of governmental grandeur. Is it the