My Wife Believes American Workers Being Positioned To Accept Lower Living Standard.

[TheMastersNemesis]

My wife believes that workers are being put in a position to accept a much lower life style for most workers. That politicians think we live too high on the hog now and must be brought down to a level closer to the rest of the globe. Her feeling is that we are being told that we are too expensive and that we must follow the example of people who live on less. That is why conservatives in particular want to eliminate the safety net. It is one reason why there is the meme about getting rid of the minimum wage to create more jobs and stopping unemployment. The Idea is that desperate workers will accept any working conditions and any pay.

Her sense is that the rhetoric about "slackers and takers need to get a job" and "poor people are dragging the nation down" is so prominent with pundits and the media. It is interesting how the pundits really go out of their way to praise hard working immigrants implying that American workers are lazy and stupid. Of course most pundits are practically millionaires already. So in her view there is a method to this economic madness.

You kind of wonder what is going on with all these cuts and the "we cannot afford it" meme. There seems to be a constant drone from certain members of Congress pushing this idea. We are broke and must tighten our belts until it hurts.