jreeves
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- Feb 12, 2008
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Theory and practice are two separate things.
In theory, yes, this all sounds grand and I myself would agree to it.
But the problem comes into practice. The past sixty years or so has provided more than enough evidence that investment firms and corporate interests outweigh or have complete disdain for the rights and well being of the workers.
And let's face it, as you pointed out we need companies to give us jobs and investment firms to expand those companies and make more jobs and wealth. But those companies need workers to perform those jobs.
Somehow, the well being of the workers and any semblance of solidarity has been driven out of our heads with an inundation of propagandist marketing and education.
You are part of a tax group who pays 70% of the taxes...then you are in the working class, correct? You should understand, more than anyone, why we need equality in this issue.
It's not "evil" corporate American. I really do get sick and tired of hearing this type of nonsense. Corporations in America are the second highest taxed corporations in the world. It's obvious corporations as well as private companies are going to pay as little as possible for wages. But that's the great thing about a free society, if a worker can't receive the pay he's entitled to, he can simply find another job that does pay him a reasonable wage. Corporations as well as private companies regularly do industry compensation surveys because of this. I have worked for corporations and private companies, I have actually received higher wages with the corporations. It is amazing to me though that people have this inferiority complex against corporate america. I know your probably going to say, "what about those poor people at Wal-Mart?" Yes they make low wages, but consider this; number one what would those same people get paid at Target, Sears, or any other retailer....the answer pretty close to the market wage for that position, number two, the more skills and responsibility you have the more you get paid.
Never in our history have we spent more than we're spending now on social programs. Social spending is outgrowing the GDP by a wide margin. Yet what can we show for it as a nation, nothing. Nothing but tax burdens and defecit growing expontentially.