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Saturday, March 12, 2011

Great item and photos posted on a favorite blog. Thank you.

enoughalready said...: More like 125 years or so, to the first Gilded Age in America:

So, the breaking of the unions is knocking middle class workers, private and public, back toward the Gilded Age, as the rich continue to get richer and the middle class gets poorer. If the financier Jay Gould, a great buyer of politicians, was a spokesman for that time, this is what he said as he hired strikebreakers in an 1886 railroad strike: "I can hire half the working class to kill the other half."

[From Richard Reeves' column, "GOP Tactic: Intramural Class Warfare," Feb. 28, 2011.]; March 14, 2011 at 1:12 PM