Come on Freepers! Careful reading calls for closer inspection, more thoughtful thinking, and a call to action! As the job market shrinks, we must be careful to cultivate those areas that present themselves as holding the potential for American recovery and success! Steyn is dancing all around the idea that there’s an entire wave of job opportunities being threatened here. It used to be street bums would push shopping carts around the city to collect empty bottles to bring in for the nickels and dimes. Maybe one day, they can do the same with used needles left behind by mind-numbed junkies!
Bezos and his fat cat cronies need to be stopped...and stopped now!
“It used to be street bums would push shopping carts around the city to collect empty bottles to bring in for the nickels and dimes.”
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I kinda miss those deposit bottles, I remember when someone who was hungry could spend half an hour walking the road and pick up enough bottles to buy a meal. I had an uncle who became disabled for regular work due to arthritis but for a time said that he often earned as much or more in a day by going around to houses in the country and asking if he could haul off their bottles with his pickup truck. He said that once he made eighty dollars in one day back in the sixties, that would be more like a thousand dollars now. He hauled all those bottles from a shack where the people seemed to have very low income but spent their money on a Pepsi addiction while being too sorry to take the bottles back when they went for more Pepsi. I think there was probably a banjo boy on the porch. For that kind of income I could afford to gas up my old F-150.