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With unemployment at 10% + in some places, and with no relief in sight from either the government nor the business sector, it makes one wonder if the middle class is no longer much of a factor in the US economy. Use to be the middle class made the goods, made the cars, the steel, the tires, the garments. Today, we depend on Mexico and China, as well as other foreign countries to do the manufacturing. The only real business left in America is pushing money around and profiting off the sick in the healthcare industry. Maybe that is why, when wall street was in trouble, the government Calvary came a running with money in hand.
But when it comes to unemployment at 10% +, nothing but lip service is offered. As things get worse, it becomes obvious no Calvary is waiting in the wings to come a running at the aid of the working middle class as it did for wall street and banking. Im not talking of a handout of money to the middle class unemployed, but a handout of ideas and blue collar jobs. Maybe the way it is, is exactly how our leaders want it? It is said as unemployment increases, so does the stock market enjoy gains. Business laying off workers, it has been said is actually a good thing for the market place. If a business has less workers to pay salary to, benefits to, their stock holders will benefit. The money pushers benefit. Wall street benefits, and the company benefits. So why should anyone from the government side, from the top down, care anything about the displaced so called middle class workers? After all, few of them actually manufacture any goods in America anymore. Government appears to look at them as a huge burden on society.
If you push around money, you probably have a good secure job. If you are in the healthcare industry, you probably have a good secure job. If you work in the fast food industry, you at least have a secure job.
This too could be why so many in congress are against healthcare reform. The healthcare industry is one of the few American based companies that actually employ Americans. It would seem a slam dunk for government to support a government based healthcare for all system. A totally nonprofit system. A morally responsible system. But congress would not even consider that option when healthcare reform began. Is it possible congress realizes healthcare for profit is one of the few remaining true American based industries, like it or not. Evil as it is as a concept for any civilized society.
If you were a union worker, a blue collar worker, and you watch unemployment soaring higher and higher daily, should you be surprised when it seems you now live in an Alice in Wonderland world in America today? A country turned upside down? A country where continuing a system of healthcare for profiting off the sick is the goal of leaders, and accepted as an legitimate condition, regardless of what the majority of the citizens want? An Alice in Wonderland country where billions of tax dollars can go to bail out banks and wall street with no questions asked, while high unemployment gets little more attention than lip service? Unions are dying, manufacturing sent offshore, and the blue collar working middle class is looking into the mirror at their own mortality. Either you find employment pushing around money, or in the healthcare industry, or you live off government unemployment benefits.
I recently watched the old classic film The Grapes of Wrath. The poor family went from place to place looking for decent work, but found none. Finally they came across a government ran camp where they were given housing and comfort. But the one thing missing, the one thing unacceptable regardless of the comfort, the opportunity to work and earn a decent living. Sounds a lot like todays continuing government unemployment benefits program. A program of benefits the government extends over and over. The governments solution to unemployment and a dying middle class. And even with that, a program the government is beginning to show less and less tolerance of. So to the Americas middle class, R.I.P.
(just my opinion)
But when it comes to unemployment at 10% +, nothing but lip service is offered. As things get worse, it becomes obvious no Calvary is waiting in the wings to come a running at the aid of the working middle class as it did for wall street and banking. Im not talking of a handout of money to the middle class unemployed, but a handout of ideas and blue collar jobs. Maybe the way it is, is exactly how our leaders want it? It is said as unemployment increases, so does the stock market enjoy gains. Business laying off workers, it has been said is actually a good thing for the market place. If a business has less workers to pay salary to, benefits to, their stock holders will benefit. The money pushers benefit. Wall street benefits, and the company benefits. So why should anyone from the government side, from the top down, care anything about the displaced so called middle class workers? After all, few of them actually manufacture any goods in America anymore. Government appears to look at them as a huge burden on society.
If you push around money, you probably have a good secure job. If you are in the healthcare industry, you probably have a good secure job. If you work in the fast food industry, you at least have a secure job.
This too could be why so many in congress are against healthcare reform. The healthcare industry is one of the few American based companies that actually employ Americans. It would seem a slam dunk for government to support a government based healthcare for all system. A totally nonprofit system. A morally responsible system. But congress would not even consider that option when healthcare reform began. Is it possible congress realizes healthcare for profit is one of the few remaining true American based industries, like it or not. Evil as it is as a concept for any civilized society.
If you were a union worker, a blue collar worker, and you watch unemployment soaring higher and higher daily, should you be surprised when it seems you now live in an Alice in Wonderland world in America today? A country turned upside down? A country where continuing a system of healthcare for profiting off the sick is the goal of leaders, and accepted as an legitimate condition, regardless of what the majority of the citizens want? An Alice in Wonderland country where billions of tax dollars can go to bail out banks and wall street with no questions asked, while high unemployment gets little more attention than lip service? Unions are dying, manufacturing sent offshore, and the blue collar working middle class is looking into the mirror at their own mortality. Either you find employment pushing around money, or in the healthcare industry, or you live off government unemployment benefits.
I recently watched the old classic film The Grapes of Wrath. The poor family went from place to place looking for decent work, but found none. Finally they came across a government ran camp where they were given housing and comfort. But the one thing missing, the one thing unacceptable regardless of the comfort, the opportunity to work and earn a decent living. Sounds a lot like todays continuing government unemployment benefits program. A program of benefits the government extends over and over. The governments solution to unemployment and a dying middle class. And even with that, a program the government is beginning to show less and less tolerance of. So to the Americas middle class, R.I.P.
(just my opinion)
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