"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.

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...

Wisconsin's Governor Scott Walker and the Republican's War on Unions!!

IT'S TIME TO WAKE UP PEOPLE, OUR VERY LIVELY HOOD IS UNDER ATTACK!  THE GOP WON'T BE HAPPY UNTIL WE ARE ALL ON MINIMUM WAGE! 

AND THEN THEY'LL LOWER THAT!  UNIONS SET THE FLOOR ON WAGES! 

 NO FLOOR?

 THEN  DOWN COMES EVERYTHING! 

 THERE ISN'T ENOUGH PROFIT THAT WILL MAKE THEM HAPPY!

LIKE TED KENNEDY ONCE SAID " WHEN DOES THE GREED STOP?!!"

"The So Called, Job Creators have the Dough Ray Me, And they're Not Hiring, in the USA!"

Tax havens enable the rich and U.S. multinationals to move income and assets between global subsidiaries and dodge taxes.  Responsible businesses and individual taxpayers are left to pay for U.S. infrastructure, defense, education and all the public investments that contribute to a healthy business climate and economy.

"Greedy CEOs and anti-union front groups are working overtime to defeat the Employee Free Choice Act!"

Joining together in a union to bargain for health care, pensions, fair wages and better working conditions is the best opportunity working people have to get ahead.

Today, good jobs are vanishing and health care coverage and retirement security are slipping out of reach. Only 38 percent of the public says their families are getting ahead financially and less than a quarter believes the next generation will be better off.

But workers who belong to unions earn 28 percent more than nonunion workers. They are 52 percent more likely to have employer-provided health coverage and nearly three times more likely to have guaranteed pensions.

All workers should have the freedom to decide for themselves whether to form unions to bargain for a better life.
                                                                                      

'Unequal Protection in Action!"

THE BANKING INDUSTRY THAT WRECKED THE US ECONOMY GETS BILLIONS, NO
QUESTIONS ASKED, YET WHEN IT'S THE MIDDLE CLASS THAT NEEDS A LOAN,
NOT A BAILOUT, THE HEAT IS ON!

"Auto Makers Wanted A Loan, Not A Bailout!"

AUTO MAKERS WANTED A LOAN, NOT A BAILOUT, YET WORKERS, UNIONS AND
 DEMOCRATS  WERE ATTACKED BY THE RIGHT.  BY THE WAY, THE LOAN WAS PAID OFF, EARLY!

"The Result of Friedman Flat Earth Insane Economic Theory!"

Thomas Friedman's "Flat Earth Economy has sent our jobs to countries with cheaper labor costs.  The winners are a handful of trans national corporations that are taking advantage of all of us.  Seventy precent of our economy is consumer driven, how much can we buy if our wages are driven down to third world rates?

"Corporations Won't Hire Us, But They Want Us To Shop!"

I'ts simple, consumers have had the rug pulled out from under them!

"Hollywood Writers Strike for A Small Piece of the Pie!

"We Need Fair Trade, Not Free Trade!"

 America's  lower and middle classes are turning out to be the losers of  globalization.  Now it's become apparent to everyone that the Regan,Bush,Clinton,Friedman flat earth free trade insanity has devastated America's Middle Class!  We need to end  the NAFTA, GATT, and WTO insanity and the transnational corporate takeover of world wide economies and return to the protectionism that built American industry over the past 200 years and bring back our jobs and thusly bring back our middle class!