A big box shopping center in Vermont with more than a dozen large and small retailers, including Wal-Mart.
The merchandize sold in many stores is often made and sold by the working poor who are trying to live day to day on wages designed to keep them poor and designed to create profits for the American corporations that contract for the goods.
These people have few or no medical benefits. They probably have no medical care. The people who employ them have longer life spans because of their excellent care that only money can buy.
The working poor who work at these stores and who create the merchandize for these store may own a home. But now, because of corporate greed and profiteering, the home foreclosure rate in the United States is higher than in 1929.
The people who employ these working poor are making record-breaking profits. According to
Bill Moyers, we now live in another Gilded Age (click
here for his blog, and
here for his podcast). The gap between rich and poor in the United States has
never been as great as now.
Thank you for visiting. I don't have a class tonight, so I will be able to visit you all on time. I wish you all peace.
A mask from the Bread and Puppet Museum, Glover.
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