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TheMastersNemesis

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Thu Feb 14, 2013, 02:47 PM Feb 2013

Workers Need To Realize The Corporo-Business Mind Set Is That American Workers Are Too Expensive [View all]

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that business cannot do business if it pays a living wage in the US. The profits are earmarked for the CEO's and the management class. Your raises, your benefits, your pensions and your wages must be given to the upper crust. That reality is the new business culture in the US. The corporations have record profits and record cash they are sitting on.

That is the "new economic" order that the Reagan revolution was all about. What the American worker did not understand is that a "service economy" is fundamentally a "low wage" economy and an "insecure" job economy. It is all about being a servant economy for the upper classes.

By being anti labor and anti union it plays into their game plan to keep wages low and workers insecure. An economically starving worker will work for anything if desperate enough.

Obama can do what he wants, but business controls the situation and IS NOT COMMITTED to creating decent jobs. So unless workers elect progressive pro union legislators over monied conservatives NOTHING will change.

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Nice post, TheMasterNemesis. n/t pampango Feb 2013 #1
Service economy=SERVANT economy dgibby Feb 2013 #2
Workers are also viewed as Smilo Feb 2013 #3
Kick Scuba Feb 2013 #4
K&R woo me with science Feb 2013 #5
K&R gollygee Feb 2013 #6
That is so true. K&R. nt raccoon Feb 2013 #7
I Do NOt See Things Changing Unless Pro Labor Politicians Know They Can Win Elections - Right Now - TheMastersNemesis Feb 2013 #8
K&R Teamster Jeff Feb 2013 #9
K&R forestpath Feb 2013 #10
K&R! . . . markpkessinger Feb 2013 #11
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