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Date published: 7/18/2009
IT'S A COLD, gray morn- "Hey Angie!" But Angie just manages a weak smile and a wave as her mom pulls her past us. Her mom is wiping away tears. "They said I'm too sick for the new link," Angie says. With a bony white hand Angie is holding her collar closed against the wind. Her mom has her other hand, pulling her along. Angie is pale and spindly 'cause she's got some serious disease I can't pronounce. "But they've got a link for doctors and hospitals," I call after her. But Angie is gone now, behind us and out of sight. I look up at Daddy and he looks worried, so I try to cheer him up. "Will the new link be as shiny as these?" I finger the links of necklace around my neck. "It'll be a beautiful new link, honey, I promise. And this one's an important one. This link is for if you go to college someday. College will be free--if they send you to college." "And they're gonna send me, right, Daddy--so I don't have to work in the factory--or I don't have to do community service?" "Shhh--someone will hear you!" Daddy looks around nervously. I bite my lower lip 'cause I realize I'm talking loud. "All work is good, dear," Daddy says. "And everybody has to contribute--no matter where they send us." I hold Daddy's hand tight and I smile. Daddy always has the right answers. I'm tired and my legs are tired and I try to think about when we're finally at the front of the line. At the front of the line, I'll get my new link welded onto my necklace. It'll be a college link--to go with the other links for food and housing and mass transit and community service. But I don't know if I still believe it. "But these links don't always work, do they, Daddy?" "Shhh! Sure they do. Don't ask so many questions, honey." "But the doctors and nurses link isn't helping Angie--just like it didn't help you when you were sick."
wow, amazing that this just went totally over most peoples heads...They think it was a story about lazy people, or insurance, or dividing wealth...
capitalism , or the fave: the left-right- ever so false -paradigm..
can you say ideological hegemony?
Capitalism turns bad when corporations control the government , then it is fascism... exactly what we have now.Socialism will just increase the misery index for all of us - however the elite will still not share in that either, guaranteed!
and then when hard working, low wage laborers struggle working 60+ hours a week just to get by, they bring up ant and grasshopper fables. Right wingers are totally out to lunch.
but then there are also those individuals that would tax the ant for most of the food he stored away for winter so that they could thn give it to the grasshopper, so the ant and the grasshopper each have the same amount of food stored.
is the story of the ant and the grasshopper.... in human terms.
will result in elimination of the profit motive and an exodus from the USA never seen before.
People emigrated to America to escape the oppressive and onerous political, religious and economic environments of their home nations.
Is China the next "land of milk and honey" and America the next Soviet Union?
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