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Brian Higgins: the word is ``slave'' because when you are forced to do work and your owner rebuts, you know, the national government is…

On the recordMarch 9, 2011
the word is ``slave'' because when you are forced to do work and your owner rebuts, you know, the national government is the one that receives the payment.
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Brian Higgins
Democratic · New York

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Higgins discusses the nature of labor in North Korea, likening it to slavery.

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