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In reply to the discussion: Mayor abruptly slashes wages to minimum for Scranton City Workers [View all]TBF
(32,047 posts)time to actually bring the story here and spend some time replying to folks. This is not just Scranton. This happened in Detroit. This will happen elsewhere ... symptoms of a much larger problem.
Everything is being privatized and there is a very small subset of individuals in this country who are profiting handsomely (and storing their profits offshore). Meanwhile so many folks - millions of us - are quickly dropping from respectable middle class to just scraping by at best. This is not going to change if we sit back complacently and wait for change. I have no problem with voting (I volunteered on Obama's last campaign and will do it again) - but make no mistake that our involvement cannot end there. If we don't figure out how to take Occupy to the next level we are all going to be living in Scranton, metaphorically speaking.