Demeaning? The path from General Motors to Wal-Mart is demeaning!

[tokenlib]

When General Motors was the largest corporation in America, and set the standard for everyone else--Good well-paying jobs with good benefits, job security, employer--employee loyalty...even pro-labor.

Then a politician could pat you on the back and admire values of being hard-working, optimistic, and all that. You had real opportunities to put those values to work.

Now Wal-Mart is the largest corporation--It sets the example. Low wages, low or high cost benefits, high turnover/low job security, part-time not full-time, overtime averse, anti-labor..

Other companies admire the profits of Wal-Mart and emulate them. The service sector is where the jobs are for the masses that don't have the time or money to get re-trained just now.

This is the problem!! This reality is demeaning. Hillary talks of values of hard work when the only place that is hiring in small town America is the service sector.

Her attitude is demeaning. A lot of us are bitter. Gov't has abandoned us in favor of corporate personhood, corporate welfare, and corporate coddling.

Barack Obama spoke the truth--and I hope he goes on the offensive on this.

[truedelphi]

1. We have been told several BIG BIG LIES over the last thirty years

The AMerican worker used to have tariffs put in place to protect his jobs from going overseas.

if a company wanted to start manufacturing cars in some other land, where labor was cheaper, that company was put on notice that the cars would be face stiff tariffs when the company tried to import the cars here.

You don't even hear the word "tariff" any more.

Instead, politician after politician says "Globalization is unstoppable."

Well, it isn't. Bring tariffs back. Undo NAFTA and the so-called "Free trade."

Period. Start re-manufacturing here - everything from textiles to the automobiles.

[azmouse]

2. K&R

[PoliticalAmazon]

3. So is impoverishing working Americans by sending their jobs...

...to India.

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