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In reply to the discussion: 401Ks are a disaster: Column [View all]Jakes Progress
(11,122 posts)It is falling for the same line of crap over and over. Repeating these silly things just cause you read it on the net is naive.
Avoiding personal insults would require you to stop using the stupid catch lines for the rich to blame others for the problems of those who didn't want to join unions because they didn't want to pay dues.
It depends on whether you are gullible or culpable. Do you really believe that the local teacher is responsible for the crashing of the economy and the erasure of 401K plans? Do you really believe that your local fireman is the reason the corporations are ducking the pension plans that would have provided you with the same benefits that smarter organizations and unions preserved? Do you really want to blame other middle class workers for destroying our financial safety net?
Brother. Your money was taken by the very rich. Just read any of the dozens of sources that will tell you how much richer the rich have become while the rest of us got poorer. That money they have shoveled into their accounts in the last 15 years came from you. It didn't go the kindergarten teachers or mail carriers or county clerks. It went into the overstuffed accounts of the very rich. You didn't stop it going, but the least you could do is stop abetting the thieves by blaming the blameless. Point your anger and indignation toward the politicians, corporate thieves, and banksters who really did take your money.
Stop being so gullible. That is the best that can be said. If you haven't fallen for the rich man's propaganda, then you are not gullible, but guilty of spreading their lies willingly. I choose to believe you are simply uninformed. I will willingly undertake your education with a list of readings about the fall of the union movement and the financial realities of the post Reagan era where wall street and tax laws have become rigged games for the wealthy. It has worked for them. The top one percent have increased their wealth more in the last decade than at any other time in modern history. That wealth came from you, and demanding that those whose retirement is protected give that up so that the rich can have some more is just silly. Sorry if that sounds personal. But you blaming postal workers for taking care of their future and protecting their retirement income from the rich predators is personal. Join a union.