50% of All Workers Made Less Than $26,000 in 2010

Subject: Re: [acb-l] 50% of All Workers Made Less Than $26,000 in 2010

Hi Carla,

Good point regarding high paid union officials.  Also over paid politicians. 

If I were King, I would pay union officials on their performance.  Negotiate a fair deal for your members and you receive a fair salary.  Fail to provide fair benefits for your members and you receive your pink slip. 

But I really don't think we'll find any union bosses among the 1% of our wealthiest citizens. 

 

On another point, I know it seems as if some of us gripe about living conditions in our Great Nation, from time to time.  Especially those who lose their jobs through no fault of their own, or our own blind brothers and sisters who train and strain to find work without success.  For those of us fortunate enough to have secure employment or retirement, it does get under our skin a bit.  But I do recall that it is our duty as citizens to speak up when our government is not meeting our needs.  We would be failing in our duty if we sat by and watched our jobs and factories go overseas or into Canada or Mexico, while our neighbors hit the streets and crawl under bridges to stay dry. 

If protesting such growing conditions is griping, then I am guilty.  But I won't be moving to another country without doing all in my power to make certain that my fellow ACB members have a fighting chance to share in the American Dream. 

 

Carl Jarvis

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From: carla ruschival

To: Carl Jarvis ; blind-democracy@octothorp.org

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Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2011 12:29 PM

Subject: Re: [acb-l] 50% of All Workers Made Less Than $26,000 in 2010

I'm sure, Carl,
that you are
including those
high-paid union
bosses in that
one per cent
that is sucking
the marrow out
of their
members' bones. 
Or maybe not,
since those
often-inflated
union wages
have played
their own part
in driving our
manufacturing
jobs overseas.

Just a thought.

Strange how
those who enjoy
the benefits of
capitalism, but
really despise
it, gripe and
gripe and gripe
and yet accept
what it has
offers. 
Strange also
how millions of
illegals come
here, often at
great risk to
themselves, to
take advantage
of this
capitalist
society.  Since
they are often
fleeing other
systems, seems
to me they
would stay home
and enjoy the
richness of
their
far-superior
forms of
distribution of
wealth.  And of
course one
would wonder
why those who
despise our
system so much
just don't pack
it up and move
somewhere where
they could be
happy; there
are many
choices.

Ah yes, points
to ponder.