A Modern Christmas Carol: The "Scrooge-Class" Strategy Exposed

"It is a time....when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices!" Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

“At this festive season of the year, Mr. Scrooge,” said the one of the gentlemen, taking up a pen, “it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the Poor and destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time. Many thousands are in want of common necessaries; hundreds of thousands are in want of common comforts, sir.”

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