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Daily Archive for October 5th, 2013

Well, it Depends on What You Mean by Furlough

Posted in Fun Facts on Oct 5th, 2013

Readers are welcome to correct me – but isn’t it the case that when the “shutdown” is over that those workers who were “furloughed” will actually be receiving back-pay? That’s not exactly what a furlough is. When my brother-in-law is furloughed from his job (he works in an alternator factory) he doesn’t get back pay, […]

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Weekend Ponderance

Posted in Socialism on Oct 5th, 2013

Marx famously said: The bourgeoisie has subjected the country to the rule of the towns. It has created enormous cities, has greatly increased the urban population as compared with the rural, and has thus rescued a considerable part of the population from the idiocy of rural life. Just as it has made the country dependent […]

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