Hey guys, I dearly hope that everyone caught last night's ep. of Bill Moyer's Journal on PBS--it was brilliant! According to the research, when adjusted for inflation, the lowest wage simply MUST be making more than $9 per hour, just to make a LIVING wage! Moreover, we are actually making LESS (when adjusted for inflatrion) that what people were paid during the 1920s! Doesn't all this make ya' sick? Personally, it makes me cringe... especially when I heard that most CEOs have in their contract that if they DIE while in office, their heirs automatically get a check worth several hundred MILLIONS of dollars!
But, it was Ronald Regan, when he crushed a Union, who destroyed job security in their place of employment; and, so, this behavior has continued ever since, because workers are deemed as "disposible". Nice, huh! (Ugh...I was being sarcastic, there.)
Hell, man genius and well-educated commentators have said that this is essentially a result of heinous GREED by one's employers! In fact, in Europe, the margine between what workers and employers make is VERY small because poverty level wages that we make in the US are simply NOT tollerated! (VIVA LA SOCIALISM! *G*) According to a late May issue of "TIME" magazine, about 68% of the poll respondants believe that wealth should be more evenly distributed amid the actual workers! Personally, these folks sound like Socialists, more or less, without even realizing it. ;o) At any rate, it seems like more and more people are turning away from capitalism, because they are not being treated fairly when compared to how much a company head makes for as little work as what he does; and this is compounded by the fact that an average worker is working 3 times harder for only 2% more money!
Ah...I wish I had known what he was going to talk about, or I would have taped it! He intereviewed the author of "Raise the Floor", Holly Sklar--go out and buy a copy!
Take Care,
Wade
But, it was Ronald Regan, when he crushed a Union, who destroyed job security in their place of employment; and, so, this behavior has continued ever since, because workers are deemed as "disposible". Nice, huh! (Ugh...I was being sarcastic, there.)
Hell, man genius and well-educated commentators have said that this is essentially a result of heinous GREED by one's employers! In fact, in Europe, the margine between what workers and employers make is VERY small because poverty level wages that we make in the US are simply NOT tollerated! (VIVA LA SOCIALISM! *G*) According to a late May issue of "TIME" magazine, about 68% of the poll respondants believe that wealth should be more evenly distributed amid the actual workers! Personally, these folks sound like Socialists, more or less, without even realizing it. ;o) At any rate, it seems like more and more people are turning away from capitalism, because they are not being treated fairly when compared to how much a company head makes for as little work as what he does; and this is compounded by the fact that an average worker is working 3 times harder for only 2% more money!
Ah...I wish I had known what he was going to talk about, or I would have taped it! He intereviewed the author of "Raise the Floor", Holly Sklar--go out and buy a copy!
Take Care,
Wade
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