It's the Inequality, Stupid | Mother Jones
If you think that the people who want to squash collective bargaining in public unions DON"T want to do the same with private ones--you have not been reading/hearing anything except Republican / conservative produced media
and if you don't understand why taking collective bargaining away from ANY group of workers in an economy is dangerous to the greater group of residents of that economy then you don't have much knowledge of history or economics...
there has NEVER been a great nation that was also a true democracy/republic where the workers did not have an equal voice in the workplace or the statehouse--
One of Hitler's first moves on taking power in Germany as a dictator was to disband ALL unions--
May 1933: Hitler Abolishes Unions | NEWS JUNKIE POST
Of course there are millions of people who DON'T have any accurate knowledge of history or economics--
who apparently think that creating an uber-wealthy level of society--which has been growing and growing in this country since the 80s when Reagan initiated trickle-down economic (a truly dumb idea)--will benefit them --
Most of the people in country who work for a salary have seen very little true income growth--because of the spread of taxation in various forms and often on the paychecks of those making less than 100K a year...and inflation
Alan Greenspan's reign was a true bane to the working class and actually most of the middle class because in keeping inflation low--interest rates close to zero--he effectively also made it necessary to cap salary increases and the minimum wage--Republicans loved that and so did business interests...
But the salaries of CEOs and executives in most profitable companies began to surge well beyond what the average employee in those companies made--
rampant greed drove those compensations packages--and companies would cut employment costs by moving jobs overseas--and yet still have astronomical executive salaries and perks--
there was little effort to be fair in the workplace in many companies have very successful earnings--
so I don't put lot of faith in the notion that companies will treat employees fairly out of the goodness of their hearts or even the forces of the market place--
Somehow the people in this country have been brainwashed into believing that what is good for Big Business and the Uber-rich is also good for them...
IT IS NOT--
the period of time in the US when the balance of wealth was spread over more income groups with more equality was during the 50s when the tax rates on the wealthy people were the highest--really high--
and yet they still managed to stay solvent
and it is interesting to note that in many ways countries like Egypt are actually MORE equal than here in the US--
Inequality In America Is Worse Than In Egypt, Tunisia Or Yemen → Washington's Blog
check the map/chart
The people in the US have allowed themselves to be distracted from the true problems in this country--the inequality of wealth and the rise of the military/industrial/special interest groups with issues like Voter ID and gay marriage and abortion rights
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