Anti Wage-Slavery, Pro-Freedom Quotations Of The Week 761-763

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When a supervisor says No

you did that wrong

despite my just

-ifications

you shouldn't have done it

I feel fastening around my ribs

          a vest

          of rage

    whose tight clasp

restricts my chest, weights down

each breath

When did I cast

my ballot for this power

over my time, this vise

diminishing me

Outmoded

as a dunce cap

still in use

Tom Wayman

An Associated Press report… on census data found that “a record number of Americans — nearly 1 in 2 — have fallen into poverty or are scraping by on earnings that classify them as low income.”

Inconvenient Income Inequality
By CHARLES M. BLOW
New York Times
Published: December 16, 2011

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The current presidential race has demonstrated that a million dollars is nothing — nothing — these days. Nothing!

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
By GAIL COLLINS
New York Times
Published: January 13, 2012