The Senate Hears Tales From The Struggling Middle Class

by Guest Sat Jun 25, 2011 10:59 am

http://www.thenation.com/blog/161619/senate-hears-tales-struggling-middle-class

“Families who are scraping by every day see no real relief in sight,” Amanda Greubel, an Iowa mother of two, told a roomful of US senators Thursday morning. “We hear that corporate welfare continues and CEOs get six-figure bonuses at taxpayer expense, and we look across the kitchen table at our families eating Ramen noodles for the third time this week…. We know that money talks around here, and that means you don’t hear us.”

by tristen303 Sat Jun 25, 2011 6:04 pm

“When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.”
-Benjamin Franklin

“To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to everyone the free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.”
-Thomas Jefferson, letter to Joseph Milligan, April 6, 1816

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The Senate Hears Tales From The Struggling Middle Class

The Senate Hears Tales From The Struggling Middle Class

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