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In reply to the discussion: My Wife Believes American Workers Being Positioned To Accept Lower Living Standard. [View all]deutsey
(20,166 posts)39. The so-called "Reagan Revolution" was actually a massive right-wing Reaction
against the social, political, and cultural gains made by working people since the New Deal.
Their goal, in my opinion, was to stop that progress and to dismantle it over time, reasserting in its place a new kind of feudalistic order with a very wealthy and powerful ruling elite "trickling down" on the rest of us.
What began in the '70s with the clarion call of the Powell Memo went on to become a smashing success with the Reagan and Bushx2 regimes (especially W) and with the complicity of many Democrats and even many of us peons being trickled down upon.
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TheMastersNemesis
Jan 2014
OP
As the unions go, so goes the worker. United We Thrive, Divided We Beg...have seen this somewhere
libdem4life
Jan 2014
#1
It used to take one income to raise a family and keep up a home. Now two, and given the cost of
libdem4life
Jan 2014
#79
Yes, unions are our only hope. One blip in history in which a middle class boomed
gtar100
Jan 2014
#127
Great point. With Taft-Hartley and it 'right-to-work' unions are undercut at every turn. Countries
pampango
Jan 2014
#144
Reagan hyper-accelerated the decline. But it started under Nixon with the start of the decline
bluestate10
Jan 2014
#114
This is exactly the plan. It is a fact. I have worked around and been around very powerful people
Lint Head
Jan 2014
#5
The global corporate fat cats aren't competing with their workers anymore, but each other. Sky's the
freshwest
Jan 2014
#11
Yeah. The profit is what keeps the business alive. I realize it has to be a profit that keeps up
Lint Head
Jan 2014
#105
We need to stop the trade deals while we can. That is the only hope for us to live decently.
JDPriestly
Jan 2014
#17
This is a great thread. Globalization means world wide leveling of living standards for the lower
rhett o rick
Jan 2014
#100
"They do not know what it is like to have to walk miles at a time for supplies"
CrispyQ
Jan 2014
#98
Food riots. Is that what it's gonna take to wake people up from their iWhatever bliss?
CrispyQ
Jan 2014
#95
It's good to occasionally read such frank, clear headed pieces/replies. Thank you.
Egalitarian Thug
Jan 2014
#91
What we forget about countries like China and India is that there is a finite amount of time where
okaawhatever
Jan 2014
#96
Classic Reagan Era crap. Claim the boss would LOVE to give you a raise but can't afford it.
Spitfire of ATJ
Jan 2014
#15
it is almost he logical conclusion of, "How are we going to compete with China?'
Douglas Carpenter
Jan 2014
#21
You completely missed the posters point. Europe and Asia was constantly in major wars
bluestate10
Jan 2014
#116
What Reagan And The GOP Have Done Is Crystal Clear. Yet The GOP Is Still Viable.
TheMastersNemesis
Jan 2014
#35
Think of that car ad where a car brings a baby home and is later given to her as a graduation gift.
bklyncowgirl
Jan 2014
#46
NO, that is NOT what you said. You said BG is a "conspiracy". You jumped in here so, please...
ChisolmTrailDem
Jan 2014
#71
and you have heard about the possible new law in Wisconsin......a 7 DAY WORK WEEK....
a kennedy
Jan 2014
#57
There are roughly 4 billion "bottom of the pyramid" workers that unskilled Americans compete with
FarCenter
Jan 2014
#61
I agree with her but the powers that be had better understand that we the people will not agree to
jwirr
Jan 2014
#70
Yes, Americans WILL allow themselves to be left homeless, hungry, etc. Indeed, we already
ChisolmTrailDem
Jan 2014
#73
She is correct. They want us to compete for our jobs with the Chinese labor force.
OregonBlue
Jan 2014
#78
The op reminds me of a conservation I had with my dad who's very conservative back in the 90s,
deafskeptic
Jan 2014
#86
When most of are reduced to living like this then we will be able to compete.
ctsnowman
Jan 2014
#109
'we need to bring the US wages more in line with the Chinese Grassley(R-IA-BCBS)
IADEMO2004
Jan 2014
#125
Since the Members of Congress do nothing and get nothing constructive done.....
democratisphere
Jan 2014
#128
They want high unemployment so wages stay down and workers stay desperate.
Skeeter Barnes
Jan 2014
#130
Wife Believes American Workers Being Positioned To Accept Lower Living Standards
blkmusclmachine
Jan 2014
#131
I Did - We Both Have Felt This Way About The Economy For A Long Time.
TheMastersNemesis
Jan 2014
#139
Yes. It explains the wilfull destruction of the public school system, and allowing the
Arugula Latte
Jan 2014
#138