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TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
Thu Feb 14, 2013, 03:47 PM Feb 2013

Workers Need To Realize The Corporo-Business Mind Set Is That American Workers Are Too Expensive

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that business cannot do business if it pays a living wage in the US. The profits are earmarked for the CEO's and the management class. Your raises, your benefits, your pensions and your wages must be given to the upper crust. That reality is the new business culture in the US. The corporations have record profits and record cash they are sitting on.

That is the "new economic" order that the Reagan revolution was all about. What the American worker did not understand is that a "service economy" is fundamentally a "low wage" economy and an "insecure" job economy. It is all about being a servant economy for the upper classes.

By being anti labor and anti union it plays into their game plan to keep wages low and workers insecure. An economically starving worker will work for anything if desperate enough.

Obama can do what he wants, but business controls the situation and IS NOT COMMITTED to creating decent jobs. So unless workers elect progressive pro union legislators over monied conservatives NOTHING will change.

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Workers Need To Realize The Corporo-Business Mind Set Is That American Workers Are Too Expensive (Original Post) TheMastersNemesis Feb 2013 OP
Nice post, TheMasterNemesis. n/t pampango Feb 2013 #1
Service economy=SERVANT economy dgibby Feb 2013 #2
Workers are also viewed as Smilo Feb 2013 #3
Kick Scuba Feb 2013 #4
K&R woo me with science Feb 2013 #5
K&R gollygee Feb 2013 #6
That is so true. K&R. nt raccoon Feb 2013 #7
I Do NOt See Things Changing Unless Pro Labor Politicians Know They Can Win Elections - Right Now - TheMastersNemesis Feb 2013 #8
K&R Teamster Jeff Feb 2013 #9
K&R forestpath Feb 2013 #10
K&R! . . . markpkessinger Feb 2013 #11

Smilo

(1,944 posts)
3. Workers are also viewed as
Thu Feb 14, 2013, 04:26 PM
Feb 2013

lazy and worthless if they are seen sharing a joke, taking a bathroom break or in any way trying to make their job a little better.

Corporations are desperate to return to the "Golden Age", because for them it was.

 

TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
8. I Do NOt See Things Changing Unless Pro Labor Politicians Know They Can Win Elections - Right Now -
Thu Feb 14, 2013, 05:07 PM
Feb 2013

you cannot get an openly pro worker and pro union politician elected. We tried that in a local Colorado election and the main fundy church and GOPPERS in the district won overwhelmingly. As of now it is an un winnable representative seat in a working class suburb.

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