Linda Tirado Quotes

#1. Telling an individual company to do better is a lot like telling an individual poor person to save more - true and helpful, but not so easy in practice.

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#2. [Y]ou should be aware that you have no legal right to take breaks in America. Go ahead, Google it.

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#3. Overconsumption is a concern for people who've made it to regular consumption. I

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#4. We eat junk because it's cheap and it lights up the pleasure centers of our brain. And we do drugs because it's an effective way to feel good or escape something.

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#5. I have trouble understanding why taking a few grand a year in food stamps is somehow magically different than taking trillions as a bailout. Food stamps cost $76.4 billion for 2013, compared with trillions, possibly hundreds of those, for the banks.

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#6. The question is, how can the rest of the country live knowing that so many of us have to live like this?

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#7. [W]hen it's slow, they send you home, and when it's busy, they expect you to stay late. They also expect you to be able to come in to cover someone's shift if a co-worker gets sick at the last minute. Basically, they're expecting you to be available to work all the time. Scheduling is impossible.

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#8. We have decided to lock people up for social deviancy these days. We tell ourselves that we're not running debtors' prisons, that this isn't Dickensian

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#9. So let's stop saying that poor people are irresponsible parents and start admitting that society doesn't seem to believe that if you are poor you are entitled to be a parent at all. Given

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#10. The reason that poor people wind up coping in ways that seem pointlessly self-destructive is that all the constructive stuff costs money. I

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