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Octafish

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Tue May 22, 2012, 12:51 PM May 2012

The way old slaves were treated helps explain the attitude toward older workers, social security... [View all]



The way old slaves were treated by the ownership class helps explain the attitude toward older workers, social security, medicare and medicaid, and anything else that's tarred as "socialism" by the Grover Norquist and the rest of the 1-percent's paid monkey class.

Doubt it, Justice Scalia? Just remember the words of someone who knew, personally, there "was never pay-day for the Negroes any more than for the horses and cows."
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