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

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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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