Showing posts with label American jobs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label American jobs. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 19, 2014

"The Middle Class anchored to the Bottom!" (the new) "What Now Cartoon"

In 1974 the steady rise of American workers wages that had been underway since the end of WWII. Twenty five years of prosperity suddenly came to a screeching hault.  No one realized it then, but that was just the beginning of a 40 year slump that sadly is still underway.  Globalization, the decline of unions, consolidation leading to an age of monopolies we have not seen since 1929 have contributed to this Middle Class decline.  At the same time the fortunes of the 15 have taken a sharply different upward turn. Are the forces of Globalization inevitably going to raise the incomes of the few and depress the incomes of the many?
We need a new vibrant Union Movement, before it's too late.

Saturday, June 16, 2012




Yet another example that the auctioning of America is well under way!  As Woody Guthrie once sang, If you don't have the Dough Re Me...