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In reply to the discussion: President Obama's Labor Day Message: "Raise the Minimum Wage" [View all]Cha
(297,196 posts)40. Wonderful story of your experience, hopemountain!
Glad you were able to get your Union job and provide so well for your family.
My work was for a non profit Co-op but I loved my job and my kids were grown and on their own.
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Without the Labor Movement, my union and the New Deal, I'd be dead now,. Just sayin'
freshwest
Sep 2013
#16
They hate it because they believe many of us were born to be slaves and work for nothing for them.
freshwest
Sep 2013
#21
Sorry, I didn't spell that right. Plato and Aristotle. Here it is the defense of inequality:
freshwest
Sep 2013
#23
Not only that, inequality is not an American virtue. Economic justice, full speed ahead.
freshwest
Sep 2013
#33
"...they want the liberty to own other people as slaves to serve their own interests...
SunSeeker
Sep 2013
#27
Thanks, SunSeeker! Nice to know who will stand with us instead of RTW Rand, et al.
freshwest
Sep 2013
#28