Reply #20: I talked a TN'ean into voting for Edwards after having a conversation... [View All]

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...about how all this guy wanted in life was enough money to pay the rent and buy food.

We talked about how retail prices for food have increased, yet the price food companies pay farmers for their food hasn't increased. So, what has been happening over the last couple decades is that super-large corporations have been making a ton of profit that comes out of the wealth that should be accumulating in the hands of the people who work to make the food (the farmers) and the consumers (who are paying too much food). The net effect is that farmers are really struggling and this guy isn't saving money so that he could buy a house, which would be a great way to make his life easier and happier (due to the fact that he'd have more economic power coming from built up equity). I said that that was wrong.

He said at the end of the conversation, "is this what John Edwards's believes in?"

I told him that John Edwards cares about closing this gap ... about not seeing all the wealth of this country flow to the hands of a few people while people who work to create it and people who buy from them suffer.

"Then I'm voting for him."

Edwards did pretty well in TN.