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Marrah_G

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7. Because so many people live on the edge.

Reply to MillennialDem (Original post)

Tue Aug 20, 2013, 11:47 AM

Aug 2013

When you live paycheck to paycheck and are barely getting by, as many are, then taking time off is a big and often impossible risk. When you spend every dime to make every week often times a missed day of work means no food shopping that week.

Also, with the job market the way it is, people are afraid of losing their jobs. When you get fired there is no unemployment safety net.

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Why haven't american workers woken up? [View all] MillennialDem Aug 2013 OP

I think it may have to do with the fact that... bunnies Aug 2013 #1

And when you keep them uninformed, it's easier to keep them poor tularetom Aug 2013 #4

exactly. bunnies Aug 2013 #10

Money. Atman Aug 2013 #2

I think you nailed it RockaFowler Aug 2013 #6

Fear Awknid Aug 2013 #3

They have been so propagandized their lives, and the media is worthless, and RKP5637 Aug 2013 #5

Because so many people live on the edge. Marrah_G Aug 2013 #7

Don't you understand? They got on the edge because they abandoned the Unions. 1-Old-Man Aug 2013 #8

Of course I understand that Marrah_G Aug 2013 #9

Really a four-fold conundrum . . . HughBeaumont Aug 2013 #11

Great post. (nt) enough Aug 2013 #15

+1 area51 Aug 2013 #18

I'm a union guy and a third of my coworkers are teabaggers. MrSlayer Aug 2013 #12

Exactly, that is where a lot of it stems from, people wrapped in ignorance. Americans RKP5637 Aug 2013 #13

Lack of solidarity, and a culture that makes solidarity something laughable. Brickbat Aug 2013 #14

Guns, religion, and some selfishness Populist_Prole Aug 2013 #16

Many decades of anti-labor propaganda have been successful Orrex Aug 2013 #17

Relentless propaganda... ljm2002 Aug 2013 #19