Bottom line???

When Reagan busted the Air Traffic Controllers Union he all but wave a green start flag for corporations to follow and follow they did... Not long after that just about every airline out there filed for bankruptcy, even though they never stopped operation, and with the aid of the courts busted up on airline pilots... Right now an entry level airline pilot makes about the same money as a assistant manager at McDonald's...

Then it was the hospitality workers in California and the auto workers in Michagan and the... And the...

Union membership is down to less than 10%... At it's peak it was around 35% in the 1950s when the middle class was being built... Now the middle class is slowly being dismantled... With the latest ALEC union busting that has occured where ever Republicans could pull it off, that dismantling has accelerated...

Bottom line??? 1/2 of Americans live at *or below* 125% of the poverty threshold... (Charlotte Observer, September 2011) and 64% of Americans could not come up with a $1000 if they had to (NBC evening news)...

And we all have Reagan to thank for starting the beginning of the end of the middle class...

B~