VP Biden:American Workers Don't Want A Handout, 'Just Give Them A Chance'(video)

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Speaking at the annual Labor Day parade in Detroit, Biden lamented average Americans' limited access to fair wages.

"The American people have not stopped dreaming. The American people have not walked away from what they believe they are entitled to. Just give them a chance -- no handout, just give them a chance," Biden said.

The speech was Biden's second appearance at Labor Day festivities in the last three years. During his impassioned address, Biden credited labor unions for building the middle class, and thus "building the United States as we know it."

"If the middle class is doing fine, everybody does fine," he said. "The wealthy get very wealthy, and the poor have a way up."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/01/joe-biden-labor-day_n_5748496.html

Mark Schauer took off after his opponent Gov. Rick Snyder. The crowd was very receptive.





Sen. Gary Peters had few kind words to say about the Koch brothers, who are pouring a a lot of money into the race in support of his opponent Terri Lynn Land.


http://www.deadlinedetroit.com/articles/10280/photos_big_time_dems_come_to_rally_labor_for_the_november_election?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+DeadlineDetroit+(Deadline+Detroit)#.VATCsUvfXEV

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1. Nice sound bite, but talk is cheap.

Corporations took the Bush tax cuts in exchange for a promise to help labor by creating jobs, and what did they do? Expatriated that cash to Switzerland, Singapore, and wherever they could put it to make themselves even richer than ever before, at the expense of US workers, the job market, and their credibility in terms of the fact you can't trust them to honor their promises, ever.

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2. At this point, I'll take a handout if someone is offering...

I bet most of us could really have a great week if we were given a couple of thousand bucks to deal with some debts or buys... Shoot, we all need like $13,000 for the same income equivalence of a salary 30 yrs ago!