Forum Post: Break the Middle Class
Posted 11 years ago on June 7, 2012, 7:25 a.m. EST by uhandleit
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If you break the Unions you will destroy the Middle Class. The Unions are the force that created a strong Middle Class in this Country. At this time the Middle Class is already Shrinking . It is below 40 % now. So bang your pots and pans but neglect to address the destructions of Union. Jeffrey Sacks, Economist from Colombia University, made this analogy on Morning Joe this AM.
The whole point of eroding the wages, benefits and rights of any one group of workers is that you can then do it for other groups. So, complain and whine about how much public union workers get, erode that, and then move on to the next group, until all workers are stripped of any rights and benefits of value. That is the goal here. People need to wake up and get with the program.
"Class warfare"? you bet it is! I work for a company (Ver_izon) that is healthy and prosperous. The outgoing and incoming CEO's split up 49 million dollars between them last year. The top 5 executives have totalled 380 million dollars in compensation over the past 5 years! They outsource American jobs to India, the Philippines and other countries. They also want to take away a dozen important benefits from the workers. A few examples are --- No more pension, an inferior heathcare plan with up to $6000 in deductibles, take away 4 holidays, take away overtime, want the ability to transfer you up to 85 miles away on any given day, not take care of you if you get hurt on the job, etc... etc.... Now when I bring these things up, I am told by the Rush Limbaugh's of the world that I'm practicing "class warfare". It sure seems more like class warfare is being practiced on me and the rest of the middle class of this country. The saddest part is that some people seem to want to drag us all down instead of trying to raise the "have nots" up. When you hear supposedly intelligent people say things like "Why should you have a pension and healthcare plan, I don't have that!" then you know the middle class is headed into a downward spiral that is going to end with minimum wage/no benefit jobs being the only thing left in this country.
THANKS I' m with you....
The Republican Party is all about breaking the Middle Class.
Has been since 1981.
So why pray tell is this Organization not doing somethin. Banging pots and pans around Washing Square Parke the other night only makes enemies. People live there and don't enjoy the noise. Picket the Congress ,and the Trump slime Perhaps. I am really disappointed with OWS. Thought it would do more.
People who don't enjoy noise should not be living in the heart of NYC.... how about rural Nebraska instead. I don't like noise so I'll move next to the airport... your argument makes no sense.
You're disappointed with OWS? I'm disappointed with you.
And I with you.....You really do care about the neighbors who are sleeping....REALLY???? Nice of you
It's a reality thats true. Cities are noisy... fact. BIG cities are even noisier. Civil disobedience is designed to disrupt, to wake people out of their sleep.
The sky is blue. War kills. What have we left out here? If you really cared about your neighbors, losing a little sleep is nothing compared to getting our country back and obtaining their freedom.
So ???
Where are you in this mess? I agree that OWS is lost in bad tactics. The drum corps at Zuccotti was also a disaster.
We need better leadership.
We need better leadership.
You're another one. You are your own leader. Don't like something, change it. Don't know how? Figure it out. Adapt, improvise, overcome. Nobody is going to be holding your hand.
Thank YOU MANY agree with me.
Why can't you people figure this out? Which party would benefit from a prosperous, happy, tax paying middle class? Prosperous people with assets to protect vote Republican.
Broke, unemployed, dislocated, unhappy. hopeless people vote Democrat out of desperation because Dems will tell you whatever lies it takes.
Bad math. At the level of illiteracy, called "innumeracy."
A party that backs only the 1% of the 1% is similar to the Roman Senate at its very worst. That is what you have with today's Republicans.
They only succeed through lies.
Still can't figure it out, eh?
Anyone who is in power enjoys taxing the middle class- forget what party it is. If you keep taxing, raise the prices of products quick enough and don't have a healthy economy which produces new jobs- the middle class is gone- there is a two class system and you are all set.... Can someone tell me what it means to be middle class anymore? I think that it is a moniker for "struggling check to check"
I'm of the firm belief that the Labor movement in this country is just about finished. It died in the democratic party where all social movments go to die.
REALLY? Hope is the mother of all men.
Why is it that union members are leaving public employee unions once they are free to do so? The union leadership has to bear some of the responsibility there. Part of it has to be that hey have failed to make a case for the union's value to the membership.
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