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bucolic_frolic

(43,364 posts)
2. People without money aren't free, and elites are fixing the results to favor them in other ways
Sat Nov 27, 2021, 05:21 PM
Nov 2021

The playing field is changing but we're fighting the old game.

ShazamIam

(2,576 posts)
3. In 1976 G.Ford signed the E.I.T.C. instead of an increase in the minimum wage, using general tax
Sat Nov 27, 2021, 05:24 PM
Nov 2021

fund to keep the workers alive but it failed as Nixon had stolen the poverty funds, so no housing and not enough food. Thus the privatized STAMP program, where instead of employers paying a living wage, the taxpayers pay for profit ag food processors and retailers for the food via the EBT debit cards.

End of the 11th month of the Administration and Congress and no increase in the federal minimum wage.

KT2000

(20,593 posts)
6. Living poor creates fear
Sat Nov 27, 2021, 07:21 PM
Nov 2021

therefore, fear of the poor must be instilled in those who have to keep a population under control for the wealthy.
This is why the US is sick at its core. Fear is a disabling emotion.

myohmy2

(3,182 posts)
10. "...freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence."
Sat Nov 27, 2021, 08:52 PM
Nov 2021

...yet we have elected officials today, even within our own Party, that don't believe FDR...

...they refuse to see the suffering and struggle of so many Americans...

...they refuse to see or lend a helping hand when they could easily do so...

...it's good this time of year to remind all Americans what scumbags we have walking among us...

...it's good to remind the scumbags that we're watching...

...thank you Uncle Joe...

betsuni

(25,694 posts)
13. The Japanese-Americans forced into detention camps didn't have individual freedom or
Sun Nov 28, 2021, 07:21 AM
Nov 2021

economic security or independence.

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