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Bush and the Cheap Labor Conservatives

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by Jerry Sneirson

You can look at any social or political situation with regard to how it affects the compensation and treatment of labor, and predict with one hundred percent accuracy where the Bush Administration will stand on it. If a policy is favorable to the working class, Bush and his cheap labor conservative allies oppose it, and vice versa. Bush and his "cheap labor conservatives" are against programs like social security, overtime, universal health care, unemployment insurance, minimum wage, unions, fair trade, or any government program that protects workers and gives them physical and economic security. The "New Deal" economic mechanisms that built that great American economic engine, the middle class, are being systematically dismantled.

There is an old saying that states, "He who has the gold makes the rules." If that is true, we are a government "Of the wealthy, by the wealthy, and for the wealthy." Freedom and democracy are only illusions.

The "cheap labor conservatives" are now running this nation, and the middle class is shrinking fast. Organized capital (Corporations) have defeated organized labor (Unions). Wealth and income distribution is being skewed heavily toward the top .05 percent. Upward economic mobility has become nearly impossible. Ordinary people have as much chance of repeating Horatio Alger as they have of winning the lottery.

Without a propagandized and uninformed citizenry, the cheap labor conservatives would be sent packing, but they know how to play the shell game that keeps the working class under control. What happened before the "New Deal," can, and very likely will, happen again. Even bad history has a way of repeating itself.

Jerry Sneirson
Durham, NH

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[BuzzFlash Note: And those who hope to pull themselves up by the bootstraps will be bootless.]