Saunders on TRP

[alice malice]

So the poor people are paying for corn, while the rich people are
paying for flakes, the box, the factory labor, the CEO's bonus and
stock options. No wonder the poor take to the streets while the rich
just occupy wall street.

On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 8:37 AM, alice malice <alicewmalice at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  This is called a straw man argument.
>
> Silly me, I didn't even see the strawman. I thought it was what
> advanced students of rhetoric call a ghostman argument. The implied
> claim that Pynchon is a Buddhist etc. & Co....
>
> That will teach me to take my eyes off the corn.
>
> The proportion the price of grain takes
> Of the pay that a poor nation makes
> Is more, as a rule,
> For a serving of gruel
> Than a similar serving of flakes.
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