It’s All About Your Cheap Labor !

If you read the very first sentence of the U.S. constitution, you will find an answer. It is an answer that we should look to and use to OUR advantage. All of the conservatives keep harping about how we need to do what the constitution says, but they apparently haven't read the first sentence.

"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union"

All citizens of the United States are all members of "The Union". Unions exist for the betterment of its members. As members of "The Union" we have an obligation, and a right, to make sure that it works for all of us. We have to VOTE as members of "The Union". We have to pay our dues to "The Union". Sometimes, members of a union have to take matters into their own hands and go out on strike. The Occupy movement is trying to lead, We can face some tough times now, with a general work stoppage, that we control, or we can face tough times by continuing to be submissive to corporate America. They make nothing, if nothing is sold, if nothing is moved to market, if no one is there to work for them.

Ronald, George, George/debt, unemployment, Freedom Trade Marked.

You've got to give it to the conservatives, they sure know how to fuck their own citizens!

"When was America at its best economically? The 1950′s and 1960′s. Back then even working at a grocery store paid a decent middle class wage allowing one to buy a home and a car."

Yes, thanks to a strong union base in this country people could work in grocery stores and enjoy a decent standard of living...But the Repugs have been destroying unionism since the late nineteenth century...and after WWII with a vengance...

Most people have no clue what unions did to provide the basis for a real middle class...all they know is that they are somehow anti-American and need to be completely destroyed...

No, What we need to do is quit buying all their shit! They love Christmas because they have brainwashed us into believing that we are obligated to go into their stores and buy their shit. Once we do a total spending freeze for 2 months straight they will start shaking in their boots and Republicans will come around. They can pay$1 a month for foreign labor but if their shit won't sell, they're asses will be in a sling!

Wasn't there point in our history i.e. the good ole' days, where the US produced nearly all of its own good, save for I dunno- Earl Grey?

Its a given the depravity the republicans will stoop too for their monied masters. whats much more disconcerting are the Demcratic supporters who refuse to see that by electing their current reps and prez they are only enableing these wolves in sheeps clothing to further capitulate to the greed and destruction of the middle class that the republican have wrot both while in control of the executive office and houses of congress and while not. these to me are the Fence Riders who want the status quo to continue for themselves at the expence even of their fellow poorer party members.

Regan's amnesty did not stop illegals coming into the US for work and immigration reform won't either. In order to have an effect on wages illegals have to be kept out of the work places, but it appears that the majority of politicians are against national ID's, forcing employers to use an "e verify" type of system or just plain following the laws on the books regarding illegals and their employers. Then there are the bleeding hearts that say everyone is entitled to better their lot if they can make it to US soil, that use any excuse "the 14th" to justify illegals staying in the country. If you want a wage revolution there are some tough decisions that have to be made and the soft spongy Americans are unwilling to make them.

Illegals have migrated into the construction business reducing the wages for sheet rock workers, plumbers, electricians, roofers and carpenters so it is no longer about jobs that Americans are unwilling to do it's about those middle income jobs.

Will the US insist on kicking the can down the road or will we wakeup and make the hard choices required to keep Americans working ? I'm betting on the can.

It's pretty bad when even our military even has to take state help.

This is a great editorial that hits the nail SQUARELY on the head.

People don't want high paying jobs, they want adequately paying jobs.

"your tax dollars subsidize WalMart’s cheap labor."

^This one ought to piss ANYONE off.

What's better is that it is the best point as you can make. The more cheap labor jobs, the more walmart employees, the more the 1% bitches that their tax dollars are going into the welfare state. The bigger the push to limit others freedoms, and to gut social safety net programs because the "new normal" doesn't justify all of these "cushy" government benefits.

It all really makes me sick and the only light at the end of the tunnel is that more people seem to be getting it.

Agreed but until people understand that there’re not in control of their lives and that they really don’t have many freedoms people will never ban together. There are so many control measures in place that the public can not even begin to understand it and that my friends is the point.

Thanks for posting - re-posting Kennymotown

Cheap labor = more profit for the 1% . . .

we are a slave colony whether we realize it or not...we are the workforce willing to destroy our home for the gain of the few. For generations we have been trained to live by their rules, now it is our turn to decide what it actually means to be a human...........being.