Revolution needed
Consumers, like you and I, are responsible for 75 percent of all economic activity in the nation. Without consumers buying stuff, the nation - and all the businesses in it -would fall flat.
These same consumers also work for American businesses, producing the goods
and services consumers buy. Many people don't realize that companies are getting
away with paying the majority of their workers less in inflation-adjusted dollars
than they paid in 1972. Businesses want to keep doing so by importing cheap
foreign labor and outsourcing
high-paying jobs.
Many corporations are reducing health-care benefits and overtime pay for their workers. Some companies are eliminating their retirement plans. This means that in the future we, taxpayers, may have to bail out the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.
Although 80 percent of Americans feel present legal immigration levels should be reduced drastically and illegal immigration stopped, nothing is being done about it, because businesses like the cheap labor immigrants provide them with.
Money buys political favors and only businesses and their major stockholders (owners) have enough money to buy the politicians. So isn't it about time that we wake up and have a revolution rather than just another election that won't change anything.
(name withheld), Boise, ID