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Saturday, April 9, 2011

Down And Out In Camden, New Jersey

Read The Wisdom of Snooki, by Linh Dinh, at CounterPunch.

Snooki, who is a "wholly untalented and unapologetically stupid" Guidette (feminine of "Guido") from Jersey Shore, was recently paid $32,000 to speak at a New Jersey university -- more than the same university paid Toni Morrison, Nobel laureate for literature. Some students lined up for seven hours to get good seats.
"Three-hundred-and-sixty-five-thousand American cashiers have university degrees. Ditto, 317,000 waiters and 18,000 parking lot attendants.

"Parking lot attendants get paid $19,000 a year, on average, so that’s actually a pretty good job in this economy. When McDonald’s held a job fair recently, 60,000 people applied for 13,000 minimum-wage positions.
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"Chronically broke and among the most dangerous cities in America, Camden laid off a third of its police force this year."

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