Thursday, July 27, 2006

Good For Chicago

This is a great development for the working poor in the Chicago area. Wal-Mart, et.al., can certainly afford to pay a relatively decent wage. & the benefit requirement will help the taxpayers of Illinois. Now for Wisconsin, Ashland in particular.
CHICAGO

HOG Butcher for the World,
Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat,
Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler;
Stormy, husky, brawling,
City of the Big Shoulders:

They tell me you are wicked and I believe them, for I
have seen your painted women under the gas lamps
luring the farm boys.
And they tell me you are crooked and I answer: Yes, it
is true I have seen the gunman kill and go free to
kill again.
And they tell me you are brutal and my reply is: On the
faces of women and children I have seen the marks
of wanton hunger.
And having answered so I turn once more to those who
sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer
and say to them:
Come and show me another city with lifted head singing
so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.
Flinging magnetic curses amid the toil of piling job on
job, here is a tall bold slugger set vivid against the
little soft cities;
....

First stanzas from Carl Sandburg's Chicago. You can see the whole poem here. Now we can add defender of the working poor. & for all you dumbasses, even with a couple both working at WalMart, $20 an hour is no wage from which to pay a mortgage.

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