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AverageOldGuy

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13. Poorhouse

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Sun Apr 19, 2026, 09:16 PM

Sunday

"A Christmas Carol," Ebenezer Scrooge speaks:

“Are there no prisons? ... And the union workhouses?”.

“If they would rather die, they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population”.

“I help to support the establishments I have mentioned—they cost enough; and those who are badly off must go there.”

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