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Poverty

GoneFishin

(5,217 posts)

6. It's about creating serfs to work cheap. It's not about the budget.

Reply to unhappycamper (Original post)

Sat Nov 2, 2013, 08:25 AM

Nov 2013

It's about creating an underclass that is too desperate and too tired to argue when they are overworked, under paid and under appreciated.

It's not about morals, it's about money and power. When people have sufficient food, shelter, money, medical services and time, then they are able to educate themselves and their children, and participate in democracy.

AND THAT IS UNBEARABLE for the elite feeding at the troughs and living under special laws which never punish rich white men in suits no matter how much they steal, or how many they hurt.

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It's about creating serfs to work cheap. It's not about the budget. GoneFishin Nov 2013 #6