If You Don’t Fight for the Middle Class, Kiss It Good-Bye

Posted by jake on 7th September, 2010 ·

By Jim Hightower – AlterNet
America’s corporate chieftains must love poor people, for they’re doing all they can to create millions more of them. Let’s put a stop to this.
America’s corporate chieftains must love poor people, for they’re doing all they can to create millions more of them.
They’re knocking down wages, offshoring everything from manufacturing jobs to high tech, reducing full-time work to part-time, downsizing our workplaces, busting unions, cutting health care coverage and canceling pensions — while also lobbying in Washington to privatize Social Security, eliminate job safety protections, restrict unemployment benefits, kill job-creating programs and increase corporate control of our elections.
It’s said that the poor and the rich will always be among us. But nowhere is it written that the middle-class will always be there. In fact, it is a very recent creation in our society (and an unavailable dream for most people in the world)…….Tucson Local Marketing