Look at those mothers, he thought, look at them prancing and talking like they haven't had a goddamn thing to do with the mess we're all in.

"Listen to this guy, Alice. He says they're doing their best in helping the economy by lowering costs."

Ralph was chewing on his mustache. There was buzzing about layoffs at work lately.

"Yeah, by cutting jobs is what he ain't sayin.' Goddamn pompous pricks."