Class of working people, "an immoral reality"

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.laborradio.org/node/7304

Lede: One of America’s largest faith-based social service organizations says America has created a class of working poor people – an immoral reality that the American people need to change. Doug Cunningham reports.

By Doug Cunningham

Catholic Charities’ Candy Hill says her group has launched a campaign to cut poverty in half by 2020.

: “What we see happening in our agencies are more and more people – particularly working people – who are coming to our doors. And they’re hungry and they don’t have places to live or they need utility assistance. And it’s more than we’ve seen in many, many years in our agencies.”

As a country, Hill, says we’ve made economic policy choices that have created an entire class of poor working families. Hill says it’s both a crisis and a moral failure of government – and the fault doesn’t lie only with the Bush administration.

: “The Congress has an opportunity even when the president picks up that veto pen to have the political will to actually override the veto. And they haven’t demonstrated the leadership that they need to demonstrate on behalf of poor people in this country either. We have a crisis in our country and it’s not being addressed by anybody. People want to talk about securing America, the first thing that we could do I think is take a look at what we’re doing for our own people. It really is a moral crisis for us.”

[OHdem10]

1. When Regan "rejiggered " the economy and the way it works

creating the Prime Drivers--the Investor Class ( I ain"t talking
401 Kers here--I am talking the Big Time Investors.)

The Investors have one interest (as large profits as possible)
They push the CEOs to increase profits. Labor is the most
expensive item on a spread sheet (in most cases). The CEO
pressured to make profits naturally seeks the cheapest labor
to be found. If it is too expensive here he relocates overseas
where he can get really cheap labor. Workers here ultimately
have to work for lower and lower wages hopeful Company will
not relocate out of country.

It is telling that when the Dems recently raised the minimum wage
this was the first time it had been raised in a decade.

Raising a family on minimum wage --think about it.This is what
we call the working poor.


This formula is designed to make the rich richer and the poor, poor.
Economic Conservatism .(Some Dems drank this Kool-Aid too.)