They, Too, Sing America

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By CHARLES M. BLOW
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/16/opinion/16blow.html?_r=1

Last week I spent a few days in the Deep South — a thousand miles from the moneyed canyons of Manhattan and the prattle of Washington politics — talking to everyday people, blue-collar workers, people not trying to win the future so much as survive the present.

They do hard jobs and odd jobs — any work they can find to keep the lights on and the children fed.

No one mentioned the asinine argument about the debt ceiling. No one. Life is pressing down on them so hard that they can barely breathe. They just want Washington to work, the way they do.

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They, too, sing America. But they’re the ones less talked about — either not glamorous enough or rancorous enough. They are the ones without champions, waiting for Democrats to gather the gumption to defend the working poor with the same ferocity with which Republicans protect the filthy rich, waiting for a tomorrow that never comes.

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1. I'm afraid there aren't many left who defend the working poor.

Sad times in this country, and around the world for that matter.

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2. 'the same ferocity' - it's actually painful to read that. Nt