So I should have been an easy mark for donations to the fund to get a car for walking-21-miles-each-way Detroit commuter James Robertson, right?
Wrong.
Yes, he deserves the donations. But that money should have come from his chintzy employer, not from donors nearly as desperate as he.
Robertson
That anyone who works full time needs charity in order to afford a car is a crime by his employer. How dare that motherfucker brag about an worker walking 21 miles each way to and from work when the cause of that obscenity is the employer's failure to pay the worker a living wage?
If the filthy rich
Or they can start paying the 90 percent taxes they paid in the 1950s that built and maintained fast, efficient public transportation for workers.
The charity given by the middle-class and impoverished workers of this country is nothing but a way for the rich - whose charity goes to self-aggrandizing buildings - to avoid their social responsibility to pay workers a living wage.
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