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poor politicians

March 24, 2009

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Our country’s politicians are all very very wealthy people.  The inherent problem with this is that the people who are supposed to be making laws for the average person have no idea what it is really like to be an average person. The everyday hardships and joys of the working person are alien to the [...]

Illegal to be Poor

March 7, 2009

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“All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.”    -Henry David Thoreau Currently, by my own choice, I live in poverty. My yearly income averages about $8000. If I wanted, I could make more [...]