Left with Nothing, some thoughts on the working person in the wake of the Utah mine disaster

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The government says we're not buying enough? Well, in the words of Donald Rumsfeld, gee willikers .... you think maybe it's because no one can make a damned living wage in this country anymore? And when they do, they may find themselves at the bottom of a death trap before they can find time to spend it?

That was something even Nazi-sympathizer Henry Ford seemed to understand -- if you pay someone a living wage, they'll have money to buy your stuff!

So if the government wants an answer for why Walmart "bargain" products aren't selling, they might look into their empty aisles and see the ghosts of the workers whose jobs they killed by manufacturing their "bargains" in third world sweatshops.

First they took our hands, then they took our spirits, now they take our jobs. And we have nothing left.

Beware, ye business owner -- the middle class you save may be the spine of your whole enterprise.

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