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The potter's field is a superb image. Big business and the banks have betrayed us all and devastated our countries with their greed and yet they still demand monster bonuses after being rescued by the gullible taxpayer.
posted by
2Philomena
on February 5, 2010 at 9:56 AM
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Thanks, sam. It was an epiphany of sorts.
There is a lot of talk about "creating jobs" by bribing national companies to hire more workers, overall certainly, but more poignantly in states or towns. All the more poignant in that I was pleading with my town of Edison, New Jersey, to approve a transit village adjoining the local train station which would have provided storefronts and a ready customer base for local businesses. That plan was rejected in favor of a parking lot on the site and the approval of another plan for yet another mini-mall on Route 1 designed to be populated entirely by national retail chains catering to motorists only.
Instead of neighbors holding a business rather than a job and hiring other neighbors to work with them, we have the pitiful sight of our town council begging out-of-state (never mind out-of-town) national stores to please exploit those who have stayed in town after the Ford, Revlon and Westinghouse plant closings in working minimum-wage jobs while they ship the local customers' shopping money off to their corporate offices and pay for pools and tennis courts on their executives' estates.
posted by
cpklapper
on February 5, 2010 at 7:29 AM
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Potter
PS I like the way you got around to Potters Field!
posted by
2902
on February 5, 2010 at 4:40 AM
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Potterville
Jeez. I haven't had to think this hard this early for a long, long time. My father worked for NYFD for -almost 20 years - until the day he died without pension - for $40 a week. It was Depression time and, well, times are hard all over and,PS, you public employees can't have a union. Anyway, I'm new to Blogit, on my way out the door, but coming back. I hope you have lots more stuff for me to read.
posted by
2902
on February 5, 2010 at 4:37 AM
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How poignant! It almost as though it were a revelation! sam
posted by
sam444
on February 5, 2010 at 4:26 AM
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