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My Dad Was An Assembly Line Worker At Ac Spark Plug, Which Was A Division Of General Motors, And His Job Was To Build And Then Inspect The Little Spark Plugs As They Came Off The Line.

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My Dad Was An

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My Dad Was An Assembly Line Worker At Ac Spark Plug, Which Was A Division Of General Motors, And His Job Was To Build And Then Inspect The Little Spark Plugs As They Came Off The Line.

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Hours In The Day

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All Art Is About Appealing To Emotion.

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Most People Don't See Themselves As Democrats Or Republicans. They See Themselves As Americans.

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My Dad Was An Assembly Line Worker At Ac Spark Plug, Which Was A Division Of General Motors, And His Job Was To Build And Then Inspect The Little Spark Plugs As They Came Off The Line.

One Thing I Learned As A Journalist Is That There Is At Least One Disgruntled Person In Every Workplace In America - And At Least Double That Number With A Conscience. Hard As They Try, They Simply Can't Turn Their Heads Away From An Injustice When They See One Taking Place.

I Hate To Say It, But Killing Is Our Way. We Began America With Genocide, Then Built It With Slaves. The Shootings Will Continue. It's Who We Are.

If The Founding Fathers Could Have Looked Into A Crystal Ball And Seen Ak-47s And Glock Semi-automatic Pistols, I Think They Would Say, You Know, 'that's Not Really What We Mean When We Say Bear Arms.'

We Reward People For Making Money Off Money, And Moving Money Around And Dividing Up Mortgages A Thousand Times Over, Selling It To China... And It Becomes This Shell Game.

Today Just 400 Americans Have More Wealth Than Half Of All Americans Combined.

I Think That Capitalism In General Is Responsible, Not For The Worldwide Recession, But For A Lot Of Suffering, Both In The United States And Around The World.

What I'm Asking For Is A New Economic Order. I Don't Know How To Construct That; I'm Not An Economist.

Contrary To What Those In Power Would Like You To Believe So That You'll Give Up Your Pension, Cut Your Wages, And Settle For The Life Your Great-grandparents Had, America Is Not Broke. Not By A Long Shot. The Country Is Awash In Wealth And Cash.

A Common Denominator Among Big Guys Like Me Who Are Trying To Take Care Of Our Health Is That We're Not Getting Enough Sleep.

The Motivation For War Is Simple. The U.s. Government Started The War With Iraq In Order To Make It Easy For U.s. Corporations To Do Business In Other Countries. They Intend To Use Cheap Labor In Those Countries, Which Will Make Americans Rich.

I Want Us All To Face Our Fears And Stop Behaving Like Our Goal In Life Is To Merely Survive.

The Vast Majority Of The Guns In The U.s. Are Sold To White People Who Live In The Suburbs Or The Country. When We Fantasize About Being Mugged Or Home Invaded, What's The Image Of The Perpetrator In Our Heads? Is It The Freckled-face Kid From Down The Street - Or Is It Someone Who Is, If Not Black, At Least Poor?

Maybe We Should Be Directing Our Anger Elsewhere - Like Toward Wall Street. Why Is It We Never Think Of Big Business When We Think Of Welfare Recipients? Companies Take More Of Our Tax Dollars, And In Much More Questionable Ways, Than Do Those Who Are Trying To Heat Their Apartments With A Kerosene Stove.

I Still Believe The Lessons I Learned When I Was Raised In A Roman Catholic Household. Like, It's Harder For A Rich Man To Get Into Heaven Than For A Camel To Go Through The Eye Of A Needle.

The Media, The Corporations, The Politicians…have All Done Such A Good Job Of Scaring The American Public, It’s Come To The Point Where They Don’t Need To Give Any Reason At All.

There's Over A Billion People On This Planet That Don't Have Access To Clean Drinking Water.

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