>Name one example of how the upper classes are supposedly dictating how the lower classes ought to live.
I told you this via PM already, but my dad's company got bought out last year by a larger company, and they immediately took away everyone's vacation and cut pay by 1/3-2/3s. My dad went to complain on behalf of himself and the other employees, and they told him, "Shut up, you're expendable." The new company is so much bigger than any one employee, and only has its eye on the next quarter's earnings... Many of the employees are losing their houses, and my dad's reduced to living very frugally at 60 years old. The company is making it less safe for the employees to work, getting rid of middle management and giving lower level staff more responsibilities for less pay. Of course, I'm going to help my dad out if I can, but if he had some sort of representation, like a union, there'd be a way to stand up against the company. But it's a "right to work" state and pretty much all lower level jobs only pay around minimum wage, so there really isn't much he can do. And that's just the case that hits closest to home.
On a much larger scale, how much money is being spent by corporations right now on lobbyists? That's wealthy people working on getting their way at everyone else's expense. And it's money well spent. It's got you into on the Social Security privatization bandwagon... how much do you think Wall Street has spent on that effort? It hasn't gotten there yet, but it likely will someday.
-Z |
