Article of the Day: http://counterpunch.org/sainath02122009.html
Senior Discount:
When your boss takes a three week vacation, does anyone replace him or her? When you call in sick for a day, do you receive an attitude from management? Isn't it obvious who is more important to the operation? Middle managers - Big Hat, No Cattle.
Every 52 years according to Biblical standard was a Jubilee year. Rich families would give all their wealth away and the economy would go back to an equal footing. The Native Americans on the Northwest coast of North America would hold potlatch, calling all tribes to come and take any possessions of the host. It was a sign of great humility and love for fellow man.
The reasons for not eating pork from Middle East culture isn't based so much on health reasons, chickens are just as dangerous. Pigs don't have sweat glands and use 10 times as much water as a man. In a desert culture if you owned a swine your were considered a pig of the community using too much shared water for your individual needs. The economy deemed that no one person deserved too much at the cost of others.
I don't go to any sporting event whose players get paid more than me. My ticket price goes towards the star pitchers' first step on the field and I find that absurd. Never mind the fact that some people get paid multi-million dollars in salary, how can they morally even demand it? How can they take more than they will ever use? Ego is a monster, obviously, and I'm not here on this rock to feed it.
How did it get turned around to, "We shall always have the rich."
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