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By Vi Ransel

6/26/07

I stand

with the “Little Man”

upon whose back

the balance

of America stands,

whose blood, sweat, tears

and humiliation

are the raw materials used

to create the Wealth of Nations.

Money cannot

plant or reap,

drive steel, make cars,

sew clothes, kill meat.

Products

do not assemble

themselves at the whim

of those with the means

to invest in them.

Vast fortunes

cannot be amassed

by any single man.

Workers are the engine

that generate the profit,

that one, alone, never can.

But the engine of industry

operates by consuming

human “resources” -

people -

the collateral damage

of unregulated capitalism

and is considered a necessary evil

by those who feed on their fellow man

via gluttonous economic cannibalism

yet have the nerve to proclaim themselves

shining examples of American entrepreneurism.

“Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital.

Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never

have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor

is superior to capital, and deserves much the

higher consideration.” - Abraham Lincoln

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