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    Right after receiving a 25 billion dollar package, Bank of America had a secret crisis meeting >>against<< better labor rights for workers

    Bailout Recipients Hosted Call To Defeat Key Labor Bill
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/20…

    "Bernie Marcus, the charismatic co-founder of Home Depot, led the call along with Rick Berman, an aggressive EFCA opponent and founder of the Center for Union Facts. Over the course of an hour, the two framed the legislation as an existential threat to American capitalism, or worse.

    "This is the demise of a civilization," said Marcus. "This is how a civilization disappears. I am sitting here as an elder statesman and I'm watching this happen and I don't believe it."

    Donations of hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dollars were needed, it was argued, to prevent America from turning "into France.""
    http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Anti-u…

    • Any questions from the class about who are the nobles and who is the serfs?TheBlueOne
    • There your answer right there. What the noblest and richest american elite thinks about workers rights
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