[kingu]

Wall Street is not the problem. The lack of checks and balances vs. amoral, un-American boardroom barons and VC manipulators is the problem.

Uh-huh. So class warfare is the answer, through the Huckster, to preemptively punish these evil people who employ half of those working in the United States? Just trying to glean out the point from what reads like a pamphlet handed out at a socialist rally.

"Power corrupts and market manipulators bring down American wages in favor of Chinese sweatshops."

So, let me see if I understand this right - lower American wages are fueling use of Chinese sweatshops? Or competition from Chinese sweatshops are lowering American wages that have had constant increases for the last 50 years? I'm afraid you have to distill some of the rhetoric for me here.

[unspun]

So, let me see if I understand this right - lower American wages are fueling use of Chinese sweatshops? Or competition from Chinese sweatshops are lowering American wages that have had constant increases for the last 50 years? I'm afraid you have to distill some of the rhetoric for me here.

I don't think you're really dense, kingu.

It's all about "employee productivity." Feel free to look it up, if you like. It means getting the most profitability out the costs of employment.

We fought a war over that, back in the 1860's, except the cheapest weren't called "employees."

BTW, it isn't class warfare -- it is fighting for a classless society, instead of abusive paternalism. Paternalism is for Old (Socialist) Europe.