[Dems2008] Re: It will take political courage that no politician has

I agree that Americans spend too much but that is from living beyond
their means with credit cards and mortgage cash backs not from being
overpaid. Wages have been stagnant for a long time when you factor in
inflation - often hidden by manipulation of the consumer price index
to hide the real costs in life such as housing and food prices. The
middle class is waking up and recognizing too late that they are the
boiled frog. The American dream for the bottom 95% is soon going to
be over.

The reality is that a lot of manufacturing jobs were moved to right-
to-work states during the 70s and 80s with much lower wages and we
still lost those jobs to overseas. Quite frankly, I miss the days
when Americans were somewhat overpaid and a person of average
intelligence and initiative could afford to support themselves and a
family. I know it is very old-fashiuoned New Deal Democrat thinking
but I happen to like the broad national prosperity we once had.
Maybe it's just a selfish and nationalistic notion, but I like the
idea of Americans having a better standard of living than the rest of
the world.

--- In Dems2008@yahoogroups.com, "citation502" <citation502@...>
wrote:
>
>
> when a pol has the courage to tell factory workers who do work that
a
> sixth-grader could perform that henceforth they will be paid on the
same
> wage scale on which we pay public school teachers, s/he will have my
> vote.
>
> We consumers make choices every day that include a decision whether
a
> lower-priced import offers us better value than domestically
produced
> products (why else are all those lead-paint toys coming here?)
>
> Why is a corporation however forbidden to bid on lower-cost labor
> wherever it can find it?
>
> Double standards are one of our specialties in this country.
>
> Ford has said it will invest $2 billion in Central America in the
next
> couple years. A consortium of energy companies has on the drawing
> board a $5-7 billion refinery that it will put into one of three as-
yet
> undetermined Central American countries in the next couple years.
> Meanwhile, American workers bitch and bitch and bitch about the fact
> that their annual trip to Vegas and their summer cottage at the
lake may
> be in jeopardy by their jobs being exported.
>

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