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Character
Gender
Male
Playing Age
Adult
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
Act 2, Scene 4
Time & Place
A small town in Pennsylvania
Length
Short
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Musical
Age Guidance
Thirteen Plus (PG-13)
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Context
Depressed by his continuing unemployment and lack
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But that don’t make the question go away. How do you protect the American worker? Or are we supposed to lose our jobs till the playin’ field is perfectly flat and we’re willing to slave away for the same lousy wages as people in developin’ countries? Pennies an hour. Goddam pennies an hour to try and get by in America. And say it came to that. What kind of country would it be? I’ll tell you this. It ain’t one I’d want to live in.
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