[nopardons]

Unless you lived in the old USSR, or some other place with the same rules, no worker has EVER been guaranteed a job. No person, not even slaves, was ever guaranteed a job for life in this country.

Until recent history ( and I do mean rather recent history !), those who worked in some form of manufacturing, were laid off at the will of the owner. Get mangled in a machine? TOUGH LUCK...you were fired and no, you didn't get any severance pay nor medical benefits. Go out on strike? You would get shot/fired on and absolutely have no job to go back to! New immigrant waves? Hold on to you hat, whoa Nellie...you were OUT ON YOUR EAR, because the new immigrants would work for less! Outsourcing? That isn't "new" either!

And owning your own home, was, until very recently, something only that most could only dream of.

[ARCADIA]

And owning your own home, was, until very recently, something only that most could only dream of.

Until the mid 19th century, the US was a wild and untaimed frontier backwaters. We have made progress since then, especially during the first half of the 20th century, and some of us believe those advancements worthy of protection.