To our friends who claim they need guns to protect them from the Government

[loudsue]

99. Slavery is coming back into vogue....it's just color-blind now.

It's all the workers who are being mistreated, spied on, drug tested, forced to do the labor of 6 people or get fired and go hungry. Working conditions are sinking back into the 'deplorable' state in a big hurry. Is it as bad as what the kidnapped Africans had to go through? Not by orders of magnitude, but we are all now competing with modern-day slaves in China and other countries. So if we're competing with slaves, who are our peers?

Modern-day slaves aren't fed by their masters...they're given money to go buy their own food....which at the "company store" is outrageously expensive, and is draining (sucking) the money out of the America I used to know. We pay 10 times more for our drugs than our corporations sell those same drugs for overseas. Even for those of us with health insurance, as we get older and parts wear out, we cannot afford to pay for the doctor bills that the health insurance companies won't pay for. And if your teeth start breaking, which they do as you get older, forget dental insurance. These days the BEST dental insurance pays UP TO $1,000 per year, and then you're on your own. One little crown on the bottom front tooth costs $1,200, so your dental insurance is used up on one tooth. Believe me, I know. I'm 63, and I work out, don't smoke, take vitamins, eat healthy food....but had a breast biopsy this year that cost $9,000 plus. Insurance didn't pay the first $5500. My husband is retired with the county, and we are covered under his insurance....a huge group policy....that doesn't pay worth a flip.

We exist to send our money to the corporations, so they can freely buy a shiny new politician.