Until we loose the “I got Mine” mentality [View all]

[FreakinDJ]

American Workers are working harder but making less

First they came for the communists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.

Then they came for the socialists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for me,
and there was no one left to speak for me.

America's Shrinking Middle Class

During the reign of the Bush years we saw Manufacturing Jobs leaving this country at an unprecedented rate. Literally Millions of Good Paying, Family Supporting blue collar Jobs shipped out of this country for the betterment and benefit of a limited few wealthy elitist and Corporate CEOs.

Before that it was IT jobs from the Clinton Boom years exported to China and India which took the Dot-Com to the Dot-Gone economic slump of 2000. And even before that it was the once thriving Electronics Manufacturing Industry which actually used to produce every thing from TVs to Calculators, HERE in this country.

ALL of these jobs, all of these industries were undermined and doomed by Washington Legislation, voted in and signed into law by Washington Bubble Living, Corporate Sponsored Lawmakers - Democrat and Republican alike.

NOPE – Obama is not going to save the day on this one, nor could Bernie Sanders raise the issue with any kind of support to have even the tiniest glimmer of hope of passing the gauntlet of Corporate Interest occupying Capitol Hill.

This is strictly a “We the People” issue

And we the people are the only ones who can do a dammed thing about it. Until we loose the “I got Mine” mentality and start realizing our children and grandchildren don’t stand a “Snowball’s Chance in Hell” of achieving the American Dream or any type of meaningful existence, then we just might as well get used to standing in line for the Corporate “Feel-Good” handouts.