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Every historical attempt to suppress wages by fifty or so per cent has ended with tanks in the streets, rather than with wages actually being suppressed that far.

- Jake

Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Mon Feb 20th, 2012 at 02:30:00 PM EST
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