Anti Wage-Slavery Pro-Freedom Quotations Of The Week 829-831

Across the country, many states like Pennsylvania that happily accepted stimulus money to pay for existing employees are laying off those workers now that Congress has turned off the spigot. Over the last three years, at least 700,000 state and local government employees have lost their jobs...
Pink Slips
New York Times
Published: June 12, 2012

Extractive ownership is ownership that is designed to generate maximum financial wealth in the short term. But generative ownership is aimed at serving the needs of life. Serving the needs of life is what economies have been about for thousands of years -- creating food, shelter, clothing -- this is what economies are for. In the recent time period, like post-war, we've completely lost our way and now it is all about finance.

Time to Ditch Our Profit-Hungry Corporate Economy: Here's What the Future Could Look Like Instead
By Tara Lohan
AlterNet

I would like to see people refusing to work in any job they felt was wrong. I would like to see work-dodgers: honourable and brave people who refuse to continue to feed this monstrous culture.
Chris Busby,
First Coordinator of the Green Committee of 100