Quote Originally Posted by Hlleonard View Post
I don't know who of you guys count yourselves as being in the middle class but it is a tough call for me to believe any of you think the middle class was allowed to grow by any other means than unions....other than the unions the "haves and the have nots" would be more skewed than it is ..look at the weakening of the unions in the last several years and see that the rattle snakes at the top of the heap have increased their income directly on the backs of the people who work a 40 hour week to provide for his family ...There is something wrong in our society when working every day doesn't keep a person out of the food stamp line...Folks now think 10 or 12 dollar an hour jobs are decent jobs, it seems that has fallen quite a bit since the unions have started to fall out of grace..If you guys are making your 100 grand a year and doing that by paying your employees minimum wage then you are part of the problem the same as corporations who pay their ceo millions of dollars in bonuses while their employees haven't gotten a raise in a couple years...
You are talking to def ears here. They think a rich man make 4.50 an hour but bitch and moan about any tax we pay. They will support a trillion dollar war but slam a person disabled on the draw. Go figure.