Wry Catcher
Diamond Member
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- #101
This thread is one more example of the insanity of politics today. Seven pages by now of opinion, opinions formed not my real world experience or academic study, pitting working men and women against other working men and women.
Few dispute that government workers have nice salaries and good benefits; as do many union workers in the private sector. Months ago the attacks were directed at the United Auto Workers, today the focus is on government workers, and during this entire time the investor class has continued to amass more and more wealth.
Look to your local newspaper and see how many homes will be sold this week to investors with cash money in their pockets, buying foreclosed property for dimes on the dollar, property which they will rent and depreciate, enjoying the tax benefits as this practice syphons off the equity of those who are still able to make their mortgage payments.
And yet we squabble over the nature of work and post signs "hooray for my side". Plutocracy is what working men and women need to fear, not your neighbor or local small business, but the few, the greedy and the power elites in this country who laugh at both sides of the arguments on this thread as they send the wealth of our nation to their bank on the Cayman Islands or the nation of Switzerland.
Few dispute that government workers have nice salaries and good benefits; as do many union workers in the private sector. Months ago the attacks were directed at the United Auto Workers, today the focus is on government workers, and during this entire time the investor class has continued to amass more and more wealth.
Look to your local newspaper and see how many homes will be sold this week to investors with cash money in their pockets, buying foreclosed property for dimes on the dollar, property which they will rent and depreciate, enjoying the tax benefits as this practice syphons off the equity of those who are still able to make their mortgage payments.
And yet we squabble over the nature of work and post signs "hooray for my side". Plutocracy is what working men and women need to fear, not your neighbor or local small business, but the few, the greedy and the power elites in this country who laugh at both sides of the arguments on this thread as they send the wealth of our nation to their bank on the Cayman Islands or the nation of Switzerland.