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RainDog

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13. word

Mon Nov 4, 2013, 09:51 PM

Nov 2013

then you have universities who pay adjunct faculty such low salaries that they have food drives within depts. to help people with their costs of living.

the economic world is seriously out of balance at this time.

anyone with any sense recognizes this issue needs to be addressed by taxes on wealth on the 5%, not just 1%.

but there is no political will to do this because the wealthy own politics in the U.S. and the religious right is the faithful handmaiden to oligarchy because they're too stupid to realize they're hurting themselves and others.

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