Any meat cutter making $19.00 an hour is a Union Meat Cutter. NO UNION has ever replaced $19.00 an hour members with $7.00 an hour meat cutters. YOUR Meat Cutters are an obvious Internet Myth. They do not exist.
Doubtless there are people who CLAIM this but it is pure utter rumor. If you take the time to actually DIG into these claims you find that THEY were not actually the meat cutter but their brother Billy Bob heard it from a guy at the VFW that his sister dated a guy who knew a fellow who was laid off from his $19.00 and replaced by a dirty illegal for only $7.00 an hour. Of course investigation of the fact turns out the guy laid off was a no good drunk bum caught sleeping on the job and fired for cause but HE is never going to tell you THAT. No it always some scapegoat's fault his fat lazy ass got fired.
NOW, the FACTUAL data on the economy shows a completely different reality then these made up media myths.
Highest per capita family home ownership ever.
Longest period of positive GDP growth ever.
2nd lowest unemployment rate ever.
Best average unemployment rate EVER.
Net growth in average wage across ALL job classes.
Best stockmarket gains ever. Which means highest returns on average 401K and Pension Funds EVER. More then 3/5s of America have one or the other which means the wealth is being shared across social/economic/ and racial classes.
Those are the economic FACTS.
So turn off Lou Dobb and the other con men who scream economic nonsense at you so you stay in hysteric panic mode and keep buying their books and watching their TV shows. They have a fiduciary or political interest in keeping you all in panic mode about the Economy. You should be a LOT more cynical about the crap they are selling you. It is NOT about the "news" with these clowns, it about keeping their ratings up. They do NOT get your attention by reporting the news. The REALITY is actually boring. There is good news all over here and here and here, some worries here, a problem here or there. Who is going to sit and watch that? They get your attention by screaming "the sky is falling, the sky is falling" and keep you all in hysterics over make believe problems. What you watch on TV "News" is nothing but marketing same as any commericals you watch.
Take 15 minutes do some BASIC economic research and find out the facts. Instead of mindlessly accepting what ever chicken little nonsense is currently screamed at you by demagogues and con men on your TV or raido as gospel truth, try actually THINKING for yourself for a change.
That's Department of Labor statistics.
Are you allergic to facts or something? You sure act like it, the way you react to them.