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SHRED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-22-08 08:45 AM
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Blaming Labor
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Our middle class spends their money.
They are the engine.

The middle class has been at it's strongest when union-scale blue collar jobs were plentiful.

It's organized labor that the corporate propagandists have been blaming for everything from companies moving overseas to greed.

Never mind the virtual elimination of trade tariffs that use to provide a substantial part of our nation's budget, protect U.S. made products, and protect jobs here.
Never mind that the propagandists called it "protectionism" as if that was a bad name.
And never mind the tax structure that rewards companies moving offshore.

God forbid we had wages and benefits that we could survive on.

WTF is wrong with people?


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CrispyQ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-22-08 09:52 AM
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1. If you were to ask the average person on the street what a trade tariff is,
& how it impacts our wages & our jobs, I doubt they could tell you. So when the MSM repeats the corporate message that it's union's or labor's fault, people simply nod & accept it. "Oh those greedy unions & union workers."

The middle class is the engine that drives our economy. The corporate masters have limited vision - they only look to next quarter's earnings. Because of their lack of long term vision, they have made decisions that have killed the goose that lays the golden egg.
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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-23-08 03:04 PM
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2. DU is not what it used to be. There is no use in fighting
we have become a small insignificant community taken over by purists who want the system to fail so we can go back to the stone age.


I will not fight those who are not worth defeating. Fuck 'em all. I stand alone now to watch the destruction.
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