PoliticalChic
Diamond Member
What the hell does a corporate executive do? He plans how working people will earn money for him. Have you ever stopped to think what would happen if the ordinary working people all over the world stopped working and went on a hunger strike? Rich people and their antics make my rectum crave buttermilk.
If I'm not mistaken working people earn money for themselves when they have a job. You know money to pay bills and most have the HC payed for by their employer.
The workers on a hunger strike??
WOW you really need to try Fidel or Hugo.
You weren't here when the coal miners and railroad workers first unionized. That was the beginning of the American middle class. The Republican party has resented and attempted to undo it ever since.
Because of the goddam mess George W. Bush and his "Tax Cuts For The Wealthy" policies plus two wars made we are back to the scenario where working people will once again put their lives on the line if it becomes necessary. 'Course I wouldn't want to tangle with one of those mean CEO's...they hire others to do their fighting. You know...like the Mafia bosses.
Now, now, Campy...neither were you.
1. Early on Eugene Victor Debs was quite properly seen not as a radical but as a decent Democratic politician and labor leader. In 1884, he wrote an editorial for the Brotherhood of Locomotive Fireman, stating that the union is not to antagonize capital. Strikes do that; hence we oppose strikes as the remedy for the ills of which labor complains. Nick Salvatore, Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist, p.49.
2. The Pullman strike of 1894 changed Debs. The issues of the day included the 8-hour day, and in its cause, the members of the railway firemen were grumbling about the no-strike policy. Pushed by the new militancy, Debs declared that the men of brawn and brain who produce should be given a just proportion of the proceeds.
a. George Pullman, of sleeping car fame, had constructed a workers community in which he owned the land, the workers houses, and ran the churches; the sewage was pumped into Pullmans farm to be used as fertilizer.
b. When the Depression of 1893 hit, wages fell on average by 33 to 50 percent. While Pullman deduced from the workers wages the costs of rent and water, library fees, and grocery bills, he refused to lower rents commensurate with the drop in wages.
c. Pullman banned the eight-hour day, saloons, and trade unions.
The truth is that the middle class has neither stagnated nor fallen back. The standard of living of same has continued to increase.
Need I do the math for you?