A Challenge to the American Worker: Stand up for yourself; American workers got what they deserved

Remember the Reagan standard? Are you better off today than you were a decade ago? Two decades? Three? Unless you make more than $380,000 a year, the answer is no. In fact, your standard of living over the last quarter century has actually decreased while millionaires have added 30 percent to their net wealth. Why? Two reasons.

First, hundreds of thousands of manufacturing jobs went overseas while the politicians you elected did nothing to stop them. Yet you continue to elect leaders who offer nothing but tax cuts, as if that would stem the flow of disappearing jobs. You didn’t bother. You simply crossed your fingers and prayed, “I hope my job’s not next.” You made concessions to your employer and hoped that would stem the exodus of jobs, or at least yours. How’d that work for you?

js123 wrote:Politicians are liars, they do things behind the public's back. It is a done deal. The public usually finds out months or years of what they did to us. How many people thought their jobs would go overseas. With the internet we now have access of what is happening and who did it. Can we stop them? We can blame Reagan or Bush but did not care how it would affect us in the future. I believe that Americans are basically interested in Charlie Sheen, football, softball, basketball and what are we having for dinner than what the politicians are doing to our country. Politicians say one thing and do something against the voters' consent. They are all a bunch of lying, fat cats living on millions of dollars which they were paid off from big corporations. That is the truth!