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Check out what the CEO's of both Hewlett-Packaard and GM are making rlative to their employees... In recent UAW (United Auto Workers) negotiations the unions are prurdy much just asking that management live up to previous agreements... They ain't askin' for raises... They ain't askin' for more bene3fits... All they have been askin' for is to not go further behind....

This is really part of what many of us ahve been talking about... When the corporations can go back on their word it has a ripple effect on labor in general and is felt all the way down to the poorest of workers...

(Well, how can this be, Bobert???)

Well, you see, General Motors doesn't make every thing themselves but they have suppliers.... Many of these supppliers aren't maga corporations but smaller companies that employ much smaller numbers of people and what we are finding in the 43,000,000 folks without health insurance is that they work for these smaller companies who, flat out, can't afford to pay for health insurance and make any profit...

In a way, I fall in that category even though I hire only two guys... If I had to furnish health insurance for them I wouldn't make minimum wage yet I work hard... Real hard...

Like amny of us have tried over and over to point out is that while GM's CEO make more in 3 hours that most of his UAW employeees make in a year, Boss Hog has ***never***, in the histyory of this country corraled so much wealth all for himself...

This one fact, like striping off the layers of the onion, is the crux of this thread.... TYge upper 1% had bought out governemnt and thru corruopt practices corraled the wealth of the nation... This isn't just rhetoric... This is reality!!! But Boss Hog is never happy with how much he has because he is infinately evil and greedy and wants even more... There is no end to just how much the ***silver spooners*** think they are ***entitled*** to...

Yeah, like I have said... We do have a "welfare nation" but it's all goin' to the top...

Meanwhile, Janie's boss (with Janie next), carrer socail workers are being pinched out by the same coorupt corporations that have convinced (thru campaign donations/ kickbacks) out so called democraticaly elected corrupt officials to ***privatize*** everything in the friggin' universe???

This is what poverty is all about!!! It ain't rocket science... It ain't about boot straps, it ain't about poor folks working harder or accwepting ***personal responsibility***, it ain't about bad choices, good choices or in-between choices...

It's about greed!!!

Nothing else...

Just greed...

Beam my boney but up, Scottie... There are to many folks here who can't do simple math...

Bobert