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Sorry, were cutting hours this week. These words are heard often in the retail industry, most often by those who already get less hours than are needed to be able to pay rent and eat. When youre only scheduled for 18 hours, losing 5 hours can, and often does, mean there wont be any groceries that week. Is it any wonder that the middle class is shrinking, and that more and more people are slipping into poverty? The murder of the middle class is continuing, and it has to stop.
Murder is a strong word, but in this case its also an accurate one. The middle class isnt dying by accident, its dying because of the greed of American corporations. Its being murdered by the greed that caused the collapse of the housing market and threw the country into a recession, the greed that outsources well-paying American jobs to countries where companies can pay workers a fraction of what a US worker would earn, the greed that replaces full-time jobs with part-time jobs, and the greed that pays a CEO hundreds of times what the lowest paid worker in the company earns.
Even worse, a corrupt Congress has become an accessory to that murder; refusing to pass jobs bills and pandering to the corporations that have stolen the American Dream. Bills that would encourage job creation are blocked, bills that would increase penalties for violations of H-1B visa rules die, and bills that would eliminate tax breaks for companies that offshore jobs and eliminate American workers are quietly killed; while bills to bail out the banks that destroyed the economy pass with little trouble.
The Murder Of The American Middle Class |
Sorry, were cutting hours this week. These words are heard often in the retail industry, most often by those who already get less hours than are needed to be able to pay rent and eat. When youre only scheduled for 18 hours, losing 5 hours can, and often does, mean there wont be any groceries that week. Is it any wonder that the middle class is shrinking, and that more and more people are slipping into poverty? The murder of the middle class is continuing, and it has to stop.
Murder is a strong word, but in this case its also an accurate one. The middle class isnt dying by accident, its dying because of the greed of American corporations. Its being murdered by the greed that caused the collapse of the housing market and threw the country into a recession, the greed that outsources well-paying American jobs to countries where companies can pay workers a fraction of what a US worker would earn, the greed that replaces full-time jobs with part-time jobs, and the greed that pays a CEO hundreds of times what the lowest paid worker in the company earns.
Even worse, a corrupt Congress has become an accessory to that murder; refusing to pass jobs bills and pandering to the corporations that have stolen the American Dream. Bills that would encourage job creation are blocked, bills that would increase penalties for violations of H-1B visa rules die, and bills that would eliminate tax breaks for companies that offshore jobs and eliminate American workers are quietly killed; while bills to bail out the banks that destroyed the economy pass with little trouble.
If the American Middle Class would pull its head out of its own ass it couldn't get murdered.
blame the consumer for what a producer does, right.
