Essay: Honor to The Working Stiffs

Honor to The Working Stiffs

Put another wienie on the fire for the working class. It's time for the $ annual barbecue in honor of the people who slaughtered the pigs, and made the hot dog, and trucked it to market and bagged it for you. The little guy and gal, that is, the working stiffs. They need all the honor they can get these days. At the rate blue-collar wages are falling, the U.S. is going to reinvent slavery in the next few decades, only without any of its nice, redeeming features, such as room and board.

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