Once upon a time, a long time ago, in a land we all know, there lived several oligarchs who forced the most vulnerable to perform the hardest jobs for the lowest wages, while often exposing them to danger. Our heroes, the workers, fought back, built unions and better days for all came for a while. And now, as we often do in this land, we are repeating history.
How you say?
We allow billionaires and oligarchs to tell us wildly imaginative fairy tales where they are sure to make themselves out to be the heroes and their reasons for unfairly treating workers, gouging customers and trying to fool Americans, while amassing great wealth is to actually “help” Americans. Yet, we never receive the help, in fact it usually hurts..
Welcome to Fairy Tales from the Oligarchs.
Fairy Tale #1 “We know how to root out corruption and fix government!”
What the …
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