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Mere cogs for corporations

Sat., Oct. 15, 2011

America goes to war. It’s a great way to prop up a failing economy. Keep the costs off of the books, prolonging the war, which prolongs the failing economy. Turn the middle class into the working poor, which gives you plenty of video heads that don’t have jobs to fight your wars, for no particular reason. Turn a world that used to envy America into a world that despises America.

Now, corporations are people, my friends, and we are the cogs in the corporations: mindless masses without a voice. I fear the machines have already taken over!

Gary Foster

Spokane Valley

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