exploitative.
served in fast-food chains.
Like hell they can. Been there, done that. Eating at any big chain is very expen$ive compared to eating your own cooking. BTDT. If other poor / cash strapped people choose to piss their income away that way, it is a different issue.
of those factors to their clients, but the price of good fruits and vegetables and meat/fish is often beyond their means. To wean people away from cheap (and ghastly) TV entertainment and/or computer games and into walking, biking, any form of outdoor exercise is VERY difficult..
More pure horseshit.
(those who bother to vote).*
and the rest of the world, and when we were still puffed up with the
1950's post WW II "white picket fence" prosperity. (At the price of many lives)American psyche, since Day One, no longer cuts it in the days of international everything, from finance to food to weapons to travel to commerce to...
the people, not just make a buck and to hell with the environment. The few who try to run for office on a human being platform are drowned out by the gazillions spent by Our Corporate Masters and their funders.
Best Little Whorehouse in Washington. A few attempts are made to repatriate the ENORMOUS sums sequestered in foreign tax havens, but it's rough going.
the reality that, inter alia, SCOTUS has put the icing on the cake. This country is now for sale to the highest bidder.