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The issue isn't just jobs. Even slaves had jobs. The issue is wages.

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Jim Hightower
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: January 11
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Politician
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Denison
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Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
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You have to learn to read between the lies.
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The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere.
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If ignorance goes to forty dollars a barrel, I want drilling rights to George Bush's head.
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When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.
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America was not built by conformists, but by mutineers.
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The real bias of the media is not to the left or to the right, but to the thin strata of economic elites at the top of our society.
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Ronald Reagan's idea of a good farm program was Hee Haw.
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It may be the rooster that does all the crowing but it's the hen that delivers the goods.
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The media isn't only asleep it doesn't want to know this news, that the people are revolting, in the very best sense of the term, revolting against the thieves in high places and reaching out to each other, which is our great strength.
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The [Democratic] party is a bank. It collects money and gives it to TV stations.
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If you don't speak out when it matters, when would it matter to speak out?
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