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Bootstraps.
Can't pull yourself up from your bootstraps if you can't afford boots.
Sounds like boots are unnecessary, you just need the straps, maybe we can give minimum wage works a free pair of boot straps whenever the spend $100 or more at a few party approved corporate chains ..
Giving away boot straps? That sounds like socialism to me.
It's more that the punters think we are giving away but actually the cost is worked into price increases on the products they have to buy to get the bootstraps. They don't notice the increases because they get the bootstraps. The cost of producing the bootstraps is so low that technically the stores turn a profit on them.
That all sounds complicated and confusing, so it must be wrong. Those filthy poors are getting something they didn't pay for and can't afford. That's socialism.
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That sounds like filthy poor talk to me ..
"Pull your bootstraps" is just what they tell you to get you to bend over