Friday, November 15, 2013

Bully for them!!


Occupy Wall Street buys $15 million of Americans' medical debt

(Reuters) - An Occupy Wall Street spin-off group has bought up $14.7 million worth of Americans' personal medical debt and forgiven it over the last year as part of its Rolling Jubilee project, the group announced Monday.
Saint Jerome:

Of gold she would not wear so much as a seal-ring, choosing to store her money in the stomachs of the poor rather than to keep it at her own disposal.

Letter 127
G. K. Chesterton:

Nothing will be done until we have realized that charity is not giving rewards to the deserving, but happiness to the unhappy.

The Illustrated London News, 8 December 1906

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