I found Juan and Bill's piece kinda funny and ironic. The same argument could be made about whites in the lower classes of America. Does no one out there know them? Seems not. They face the same situation, call it whatever you like. Poverty breeds poverty, check out Appalachian sometime. Check out poor white sections of Philly. People who through birth have accumlated advantages think they earned these advantages, anyone out there who picked their parents, intelligence, and social class sign in here. What BS it all is. You wanna help the poor of all races, support jobs here, buy here, support a fair wage, tell those idiots in Congress to pass a jobs bill. Funny how Fox tells people to get a job while they support a Romney who exports jobs, can you spell hypocrite.
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Read this book if you'd like to know some whys rather than finger pointing. 'The Betrayal of the American Dream' Donald L. Barlett, James B. Steele
excerpt:
"The ruling class thinks that the average American earns too much money. This is an unspoken belief, and one that most of them would no doubt vehemently deny. But the evidence is compelling. The elite show their hand in many ways:
• When they oppose raising the pay of the lowest-paid workers, those covered by the minimum wage
• When they encourage the export of good-paying jobs in fields such as information technology
• When they resist changes in the tax code that would protect American workers
Corporate executives contend that they are forced to relocate their operations to low-wage havens to remain competitive. In other words, their domestic workers earn too much. Never mind that manufacturing wages are lower in the United Stares than in a dozen other developed countries.
Thanks to the rules, many of which are written by corporations, a company can pull up stakes and use cheap foreign labor to make the same product it once did in America. It no longer has to meet environmental standards. It no longer has to abide by U.S. labor laws. It no longer has to pay a decent wage. Then the company can ship the product back to the United States where, courtesy of the rules, it will pay little if any duty. How can American workers hope to compete against that? They can't.
Lisa Gentner worked at a company called Carrollton Specialty Products, housed in a one-story warehouse in Moberly, Missouri, a town of 15,000 in central Missouri. Carrollton was a subcontractor for Hallmark Cards, the global greeting card giant based 125 miles west in Kansas City, Missouri. The largely female workforce of 200 provided the hand assembly for a variety of Hallmark products. They tied bows and affixed them to valentines and anniversary greetings. They glued buttons, rhinestones, and pop-ups inside birthday cards. They made gift baskets.
As in many towns across the country, the plant was an economic anchor for Moberly. Manufacturing is often pictured as a big-city enterprise, but a substantial number of plants are the lifeblood of small to medium-sized cities...."
Quote from p24 'Assault on the Middle Class' in 'The Betrayal of the American Dream' authors, Barlett and Steele.
