100 years ago folks were losing their jobs in agriculture. Today folks are losing their jobs in manufacturing.
100 years ago a lot of people worked in manufacturing and were paid very low wages. Today a lot of people work in the service sector and are paid very low wages.
100 years ago the folks that owned and managed the manufacturing plants made enormous amounts of money. Today the CEO's are paid enormous amounts of money.
Ya gotta ask yourself, "why did the manufacturing wages go up so much, from slave rates to middle class income?"
Unions!
If the only jobs the CEO's will let Americans perform is service industry jobs, then we need to make those jobs middle class jobs. The way to do that is unions.
There's a lot of money in the pipeline. When companies pay rock stars and jocks millions of dollars to endorse their products, when CEO's are making tens of millions per year, when companies are slashing their labor cost by 90% by moving manufacturing overseas, there's a lot of money in the stream between the Chineese guy making $5 a day and your local Wal-Mart.
You would think that with all the money that manufacturers save by outsourcing jobs that prices would go down, right? Wrong! The cost of living has not decreased, not even a fraction of one percent. So where's the money? Rock stars, jocks, and CEO's. Hey, that's your money as they say on TV. You want higher pay? Unionize! That's the way our fathers and grandfathers did it. You think Wal-Mart would go broke if the paid their workers more money? Not hardly. Can they outsource those service jobs to China? Not hardly! Ya, I know Republicans think unions suck. Well, guess what? Poverty sucks.
On July 4th we should remember our veterns. So let's remember the boys who came home from WWII. They went to work in the factories and they joined unions and made a better life and a better country for all of us.
That's the funniest thing I've read on FR all day ! Thanks for the laugh. I'm happy most americans know the Leninist view when they read it.