I resolved never to send money to NPR back when they came out so vehemently opposed to LPFM. I listen to NPR quite a bit but will not support them with money.
" I know an awful lot of people who have used their cards for basics like food and electricity when they weren’t working."
I've been in that situation. Health problems caused me to be unable to work full-time for a period of about two years. I'm still, in effect, paying off the credit card debt amassed during that period, which ended over six years ago. And I am a person with many more skills and advantages than the woman in the article, not to mention a member of a DINK (double-income, no kids) couple.
This statement:
"Wages and hours are set by the marketplace, and you cannot expect magnanimity from the marketplace. It is the final arbiter from which there is no appeal."
is (in my experience working for companies of various sizes) much less true of small businesses. What we need are more small businesses. The Republicans pay lip service to the importance of small businesses, but don't actually care about them. Do the Democrats? I'm not sure. But it reminds me of when I was a child, puzzling over the election news of the time. I asked my father what was the difference between a Democrat and a Republican. He said, "Republicans care about the rich people, and Democrats care about the poor people." Years later in college I remembered that, and felt resentful that he had "programmed" my wee mind with such a simplistic statement. Years later yet again, I came to realize that he was actually dead on.
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