Saturday, January 2, 2010

What is so wrong with workers

How come the workers of this country must shoulder all the burdens of the economy in the US? For the last several decades wages have stagnated and fallen. Workers were forced and encouraged to borrow more money. As they became more indentured, so to speak, they had to wager their homes with second mortgages.

Workers have less and less spending power as the decades go by.

Workers become dependent on employers for health care and stay with employers only for medical insurance.

I sometime hear conservative pundits in the news and on the Internet demonizing workers and unions. Wages seem to be so much of a burden, but those wages get spent in the economy and everyone benefits.

Now they will be mandated to buy private health insurance with lower and lower wages. And those in unions will be taxed on their health insurance benefits.

There were many rights fought for in the early 1900s that have been slowly eroded on.

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