AFL-CIO president: GOP ‘started the war on working Americans’

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AFL-CIO president: GOP ‘started the war on working Americans’

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/10/04/afl-cio-president-gop-started-the-war-on-working-americans/

By Megan Carpentier
Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Rallying attendees on the second afternoon of the Take Back The American Dream summit, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said of Republicans, “If they want to have a debate on class warfare, we’ll have that debate,” because “It wasn’t our class that started the war on working Americans.”

Trumka used his time to illustrate many of the examples of what he termed the “strange morality” of the modern economy, from mass layoffs at Bank of America despite record profits to narratives in which “the jobless are blamed for the unemployment crisis.” He also noted that, “The years from 1997-2010 represented the first protracted decline in family income since the Great Depression.”

Yet, referring to the many debates in Washington this year, he asked “When are we going to recognize that this crisis is a jobs crisis, not a debt crisis?”