When will workers wake up and realize that companies aren't going to take care of them? In fact, that's the polar opposite of what they try to do. Employees are a necessary evil, and the fewer of them (and cheaper) the better. This is why unions were created, to try to offset the total power over worker's lives that exists without their mediating presence. And if you want to find the root of the great chasm in America, look at when war was declared on unions and the working and middle class under Reagan.We've endured over four decades of this assault on jobs, wages, and the respect for workers. From that the ever widening wealth gap grew, turning us from a nation that had seen the greatest expansion of the middle class in history, to one where today's "middle class" is closer to poverty. Meanwhile the top 10% has seen their fortunes rise exponentially. Yes, there are lots of other big problems. We still have racism, perhaps greater now than even 50 years ago, and we've seen the roll back of women's rights, and increased numbers of mass murders, not to mention yet another shock to our economy with rising inflation that wages don't keep up with. But underneath all of those big problems lies one that is always there, affecting everyone regardless of skin color, gender, age, or religious belief:It's the economy, stupid!As Bill Clinton once said. Thirty years later, it's as true as ever. It's time to end unchecked capitalism and our "trickle down" economy.

When will workers wake up and realize that companies aren't going to take care of them? In fact, that's the polar opposite of what they try to do. Employees are a necessary evil, and the fewer of them (and cheaper) the better. This is why unions were created, to try to offset the total power over worker's lives that exists without their mediating presence. And if you want to find the root of the great chasm in America, look at when war was declared on unions and the working and middle class under Reagan.We've endured over four decades of this assault on jobs, wages, and the respect for workers. From that the ever widening wealth gap grew, turning us from a nation that had seen the greatest expansion of the middle class in history, to one where today's "middle class" is closer to poverty. Meanwhile the top 10% has seen their fortunes rise exponentially. Yes, there are lots of other big problems. We still have racism, perhaps greater now than even 50 years ago, and we've seen the roll back of women's rights, and increased numbers of mass murders, not to mention yet another shock to our economy with rising inflation that wages don't keep up with. But underneath all of those big problems lies one that is always there, affecting everyone regardless of skin color, gender, age, or religious belief:It's the economy, stupid!As Bill Clinton once said. Thirty years later, it's as true as ever. It's time to end unchecked capitalism and our "trickle down" economy.

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