Sunday, November 08, 2009

“Necessitous men are not free men.”

It's not a new insight by any means, and it basically is the corporate-business view that labor needs to be kept in overabundance and priced and taxed so that "owe the soul to the company store" or "keep them on payments and keep them sublime" are cynical operative steps that do indeed work when put into practice by big business-government. And while Franklin Roosevelt talked the talk ---

He did do that, this link.

It is way past due time for the nation to walk the talk; and perhaps I was wrong voting for the school levy last Tuesday - given how we see a public coming out of public education and then letting themselves go into "the real world" and not even bleating while being fleeced.