Brian just got a new health care plan with his new job. I was pretty excited to hear that most of our prescriptions now cost one dollar. When the pharmacist told me the final cost I thought I was in Canada, or England, or France, or basically any other country that claims to be a major world power (okay, maybe Canada doesn't do that. That is how cool they are.) Anyway, my happiness was soon mitigated by the elderly woman next to me at the CVS on Broad whose prescriptions cost $157 (after she put one back).
To quote my favorite Fton graffiti: WAKE UP AMERICA!
"lumbering our minds with literature..."
"Somewhere between prayer and revolution....:"
"This is what we were all doing, lumbering our minds with literature that only served to cloud the really vital situation spread before our eyes...I am simply smothered and sickened with advantages. It is like eating a sweet dessert the first thing in the morning. This, then, was the difficulty, this sweet dessert in the morning and the assumption that the sheltered, educated girl has nothing to do with the bitter poverty and the social maladjustment which is all around her, and which, after all, cannot be concealed, for it breaks through poetry and literature in a burning tide which overwhelms her." -Jane Addams, Twenty Years at Hull-House
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