Anti Wage-Slavery Pro-Freedom Quotations Of The Week 876-879

Mr. Romney doesn’t understand the double standard where government checks, whether already paid for or not, to people are called “entitlements” while far bigger checks to corporations are called “incentives.”
Ralph Nader
Not a gaffe, but the real Romney

The rich got richer and the poor got poorer in New York City last year as the poverty rate reached its highest point in more than a decade, and the income gap in Manhattan, already wider than almost anywhere else in the country, rivaled disparities in sub-Saharan Africa.
Income Data Shows Widening Gap Between New York City’s Richest and Poorest
By SAM ROBERTS
New York Times
Published: September 20, 2012

The number of unemployed people in France has surpassed three million for the first time since 1999…
France: Unemployment Rises
New York Times
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: September 3, 2012

No feast but the eternal retch of human surfeit
No drink but dregs of reckoning of loss and profit
Wole Soyinka