American Workers Make Too Much Money [View all]
The US Chamber of Commerce, big business and the GOP think that Americans make too much money and have too many benefits. If you add up the rhetoric and watch the action that fact should be obvious. To the GOP $8 - $10 an hour is a middle class wage with plenty of money to raise a family and save for retirement. And the job does not have to be full time.
Every time you hear rhetoric about being globally competitive it is code for wage parity with the third world. Of course there are places in the third world where $50 a year is more than adequate. Even many Democrats use the same globalization meme. You simply cannot compete on a global level and pay American wages, even if it is $8 an hour. The math does not add up. And if the jobs do come back $12 an hour will be called "rich".
What is really going on with this election and candidates like Romney is that they plan to spend their time in their castles (i.e. private compounds and gated country club communities). All they want is all the power and all the money while they draw up the "drawbridges" over their modern moat while leaving the rest of the country to fend for itself.
And you wonder what is bothering OWS. The GOP even views the poor white trash who vote for them as expendable. I do not care if you are not truly poor and vote GOP. The billionaires and millionaires who fund the GOP believe even wealthier people are poor white trash. These same people are clueless about how they vote even for their own demise.
Even if you worked for free GOP types find that too expensive. They would rather you pay them for the privilege of working.
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