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In reply to the discussion: My Wife Believes American Workers Being Positioned To Accept Lower Living Standard. [View all]ctsnowman
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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