Tulip Magnates’ Banner Decade
posted by Frank Pasquale
Paul Caron brings news of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities’ report Income Concentration at Highest Level Since 1928. Meanwhile, workers facing Jungle-like conditions are getting tossed into jail. Well, at least we have the right poet laureate for our times, Kay Ryan, known for her dark humor. Here’s most of her pitch-perfect take on inequality, Dutch:
Dutch
Much of life
is Dutch
one-digit
operations
in which
legions of
big robust
people crouch
behind
badly cracked
dike systems
attached
by the thumbs
***
while, back
in town, little
black-suspendered
tulip magnates
stride around.
August 2, 2008 at 8:08 pm
Posted in: Law and Inequality
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Samir Chopra - August 3, 2008 at 6:55 pm
And not just tossed into jail, they are being deported by hospitals, formerly entrusted with taking care of them.
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