Sunday, October 27, 2013

Dems Poised T' Compromise On Cutting The Cuts


Don't we have enough chopping coming down the pike? People are getting their food aid cut just in time for Thanksgiving. Republicans think we are all pretty pleased about it.
Anyone outside the 47% is perfectly happy to have the kids next door to them having hamburgers for
Thanksgiving.
As this is still America, I don't think it works quite that way.
The churches will be overwhelmed this season, despite what the Ayn Randians might be blathering on about.
A good percent of business people in this country think they actually deserve cheap labor at starvation wages.  A good 90% of these persons seem to think they have actually earned the privilege
to pay starvation wages.
They believe if their tithes don't keep families at or near the poverty line afloat, those families need to work more jobs.
Nonsense.
I don't know how much longer people will put up with a raise of $.25 per hour every five years.  But for as long as they attempt to do so, they will be exploited by companies they work for, and later they
will be ridiculed for the neediness these low wages inflict on them.
At least with proper health care, family leaders will be able to look for work deserving of their efforts. I know Republicans hate that most of all. Lack of benefits  has shackled many an intelligent hard-working person in this economy. Proper family health care availability will ease up the weight of those shackles.
Now if the National Labor Relations Board would get on with it, maybe companies will begin to see-
laborers don't owe them exploited labor.
These companies don't 'earn' the work we do. They are to be ready to PAY us for the work we do. Perhaps these people will be able to better understand  the definition of the word, 'pay'.  We are no longer sharecroppers, or miners working for 'the company store'.
We need paychecks equitable to the efforts we provide. New, unwanted concept in American business, right?

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