February 18, 2012     Permalink ows,protests,wall street Submitted by Michael Dewey

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How many of the fourteen million now unemployed will replace unemployment checks with part time work? The new poverty is subsidized with food stamps to the multitude which end up in the pockets of merchants. It creates a baseline economy, a brutal Dickensian society with a whiff of paternalism which says, "Feed them but don't actually attempt to improve their lot," merely subsidizing their poverty.