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Alexander Zaitchik

Saturday 5th of September 2026

Income growth I'll tell you a story. In 1981, when I was in college, I worked as a casual dockworker, a teamster job. I made $13.13 an hour. My mom knew the terminal manager. I could call him up and get two-day weekend shifts. You know, favored. I went back there five years ago. You know what they started me at? Ten-fifty. Thirty ’effin years later! It's bullshit. Prnnsylvania construction worker quoted in The Gilded Rage, by ALexander Zaitchik © 2016 Kwiple.com
Migration We have a higher rate of refugees than Afghanistan and Syria. The whole valley is being depopulated. We lost our last grocery. The hardware store. Things that make a community A sixty-one-year old man from Coal Creek in West Virginia's Kanawha Valley, quoted in The Gilded Rage, by Alexander Zaitchik © 2016 Kwiple.com
o Veterans say The military teaches you to kill, it doesn't teach you how to live with killing. Nobody wants to say, “I'm at the lowest point in my life, and I need help.” Nobody wants to say that. And nobody's saying, “Hey buddy, you fought for us, lemme help you.” We're forgetting them. Trump doesn't. A Gulf War veteran quoted in The Gilded Rage, by Alexander Zaitchik © 2016 Kwiple.com
 
Work Americans shouldn't be ashamed to get their hands dirty. The dirt that gets under your fingernails, my dad would tell me, is clean dirt. You worked for and it washes off. A lot of this dirt we have in this nation is no longer clean dirt. A former industrial engineer quoted in The Gilded Rage, by Alexander Zaitkin  © 2016 Kwiple.com