“People often say that, in a democracy, decisions are made by a majority of the people. Of course, that is not true. Decisions are made by a majority of those who make themselves heard and who vote – a very different thing.”
- Walter H. Judd
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“The 400 of us pay a lower part of our income in taxes than our receptionists do, or our cleaning ladies, for that matter. If you’re in the luckiest 1 per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.”
That’s from Warren Buffett, the second-richest [...]
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Willard Plumerson was dead before his time
but he was born again
in a burst of economic paranoia
heaven and white skin privilege
holding more promise
than his sliding stock quotations
he kept busy
scurrying to the foreman’s office
to tattle on other workers’ toilet activities
in between cutting train axles
on an engine lathe he called his own
for over forty years
Willard made few friends
with [...]
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“Let’s allow our unions and their organizers to lift up [...]
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The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.
-Plato
There will be many important decisions to be made this election season, whether in the Pennsylvania U.S. Senate race between Bob Casey and Rick Santorum, the governor’s race between Ed Rendell and Lynn Swann, or [...]
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