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  • They want to keep people who work two or three jobs for about $7.20 an hour with not benefits and no set working hours in their place; they want to push wages down in the United States toward the level they pay their impoverished wage-slaves abroad.

    Joseph A. Palermo: Civic-Minded Plutocrats Joseph A. Palermo 2010

  • They want to keep people who work two or three jobs for about $7.20 an hour with not benefits and no set working hours in their place; they want to push wages down in the United States toward the level they pay their impoverished wage-slaves abroad.

    Joseph A. Palermo: Civic-Minded Plutocrats Joseph A. Palermo 2010

  • They want to keep people who work two or three jobs for about $7.20 an hour with not benefits and no set working hours in their place; they want to push wages down in the United States toward the level they pay their impoverished wage-slaves abroad.

    Joseph A. Palermo: Civic-Minded Plutocrats Joseph A. Palermo 2010

  • They want to keep people who work two or three jobs for about $7.20 an hour with not benefits and no set working hours in their place; they want to push wages down in the United States toward the level they pay their impoverished wage-slaves abroad.

    Joseph A. Palermo: Civic-Minded Plutocrats Joseph A. Palermo 2010

  • They want to keep people who work two or three jobs for about $7.20 an hour with not benefits and no set working hours in their place; they want to push wages down in the United States toward the level they pay their impoverished wage-slaves abroad.

    Joseph A. Palermo: Civic-Minded Plutocrats Joseph A. Palermo 2010

  • They want to keep people who work two or three jobs for about $7.20 an hour with not benefits and no set working hours in their place; they want to push wages down in the United States toward the level they pay their impoverished wage-slaves abroad.

    Joseph A. Palermo: Civic-Minded Plutocrats Joseph A. Palermo 2010

  • With everyone vainly trying to stave off being revealed as zombie banks, there isn't much inclination to start spreading around seed money so you can open a pizza parlor and put six wage-slaves to work.

    Obama Needs To Coddle Wall Street Even More Or He's Doomed, Argues Politico The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • According the “Firing Squad School”, on the other hand, which deals with longer term “analysis spans” – if I may coin a useful term – the main beneficiaries in, say, thirty years, may well be the first generation serfs and wage-slaves produced by the bailout in the first place.

    The Highway Robber State « Antiwar.com Blog 2008

  • You will either be chattel, owned outright, wage-slaves who recycle the Masters\ 'money to them, or debt-slaves who will enrich the Masters via compound interest and made-up fees.

    Debt. It's Better Than Chains. 2009

  • The Post says this is "the price New Yorkers must pay to support a public-sector wage-and-benefit structure that private-sector wage-slaves can only dream about."

    Morning Read, Upstate: Coping With Cuts 2009

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