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jwirr

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5. If you are poor that is easy to answer. We are too tired and too damn busy trying to make ends

Reply to swilton (Original post)

Sat Jun 27, 2015, 11:34 PM

Jun 2015

meet even if we had enough money to buy a gun. Pitchforks will not work today - they have tanks. And we are smart enough to know that if we did it first no one else would follow. They would let us stand out there alone. Any more questions?

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Why Don't the Poor Rise Up? [View all] swilton Jun 2015 OP

religion has typically been a huge pacifying factor elehhhhna Jun 2015 #1

Religion has little to do with it today. Sunday is the only day we get to sleep in. jwirr Jun 2015 #6

Ha ha PRB Jun 2015 #9

Why don't they vote.. 4dsc Jun 2015 #2

The ones I know do. jwirr Jun 2015 #7

Because of poll taxes and voting machines fasttense Jun 2015 #11

K & R. Marking- appalachiablue Jun 2015 #3

Solidarity? Igel Jun 2015 #4

If you are poor that is easy to answer. We are too tired and too damn busy trying to make ends jwirr Jun 2015 #5

Amen. 840high Jun 2015 #8

That Steinbeck quote springs to mind. nxylas Jun 2015 #10

"Why don't the Poor Rise UP?" Because the Multinational Corporations have been well prepared for Cal33 Jun 2015 #12

This message was self-deleted by its author KoKo Jun 2015 #13