3. Nobody said to freed slaves, "You have a right to an employer to tell you when to come, when to go, and what do do all day." They said, "We'll give you forty acres and a mule." Yes, it was a lie, but why did that lie appeal?
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I listened to the debate® last night. In particular I listened to what the candidates' vision of a healthy economy looked like.
Do women really want to work a job in some office, store, or factory while someone else looks after their children?
I'm not one. I don't know. 
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4. Because it offered the chance to live an autonomous life, answerable to no boss or power structure, interacting with the good green Earth which feeds, and has always fed, humankind. Our aspirations are so meager, so stingy, so poor. Let me please be a wage slave, make payments
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5. Struggle to barely earn enough cash to satisfy the demands on me, owe on a car, owe on a house or an apartment, live boxed in concrete, hope to save up enough to go, for some week out of the year, to where fish swim, trees grow, and the air is fresh and clean...
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6. and what I want, most of all, from my government, is some stranger to raise my children, and some doctor to prescribe me pills to keep me alive in spite of the poison air I breathe, the poison water I drink, the poison, nutrient-poor, sugar filled crap I see advertised and eat
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7. And while I live this enslaved life I want my government to give some corporations billions of dollars of my money to build gadgets to keep this whole top-heavy system on its feet while every kind of life goes extinct...
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8. People read my threads, and say, "We don't want to have to live amongst the green and growing Earth, watch clear water run down the valley and gather food from the ground! We're above all that! We want to live in concrete boxes, sit in traffic jams, breathe exhaust fumes,
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Exactly.
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Preferably until they’re 18!
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