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Wed Feb 28, 2018, 06:14 PM Feb 2018

Geore Orwell Saw This Coming In Animal Farm

Orwells book, "Animal Farm," an allegory substituting animals for people includes the classic line: "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."

Keep this quote in mind when examaining some of Trump's cabinet appointees. Ben Carson (Housing )bought a $31,000 dining room set for his office when the government set this purchase price at $5,000. Scott Pruit ( EPA ) has spent huge amounts of money on first class airline tickets because people in coach yell at him. Why ...he's giving his rich oil and mining buddies the green light to pollute and degrade the environment. Don't first class travelers give a damn? Multi millionaire Steve Munuchin and his "Ms Gucci" wife used a government airplane at a cost of $35,000 +/- to watch the eclipse of the sun. Let's not forget Ryan Zinke (Interior) giving public lands to big extraction industries and not an acre to Joe The Plumber. What's this land grab costing the public?? Almost forgot, billionaire "intellectual" Betsy Voss ( Education) giving taxpayer money to private religious schools.

I suspect we're just scratching the surface but it seems in a land where all men are created equal, some men and women are more equal than the rest of us.

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