BehindBlueI's
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- Oct 3, 2012
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Not to discredit the state of your wife's employment/diminished benefits, but this is the norm today. I work with a large number of defense contractors, most of which are fortune 500 company employees. All of them have seen reduction not only in benefits (PTO accumulation, health insurance, retirement contributions, etc) but also pay. I've known several that have had their hourly pay reduced by as much as $4.00/hour in the past few years. This is the key point I think many people overlook when addressing poverty, the separation between the rich/poor, the destruction of the middle class.
I see many people champion themselves as defenders of the free market and capitalism without opening their eyes to the fact the corporate world has hijacked our political system for their own personal gain. Everything that has stagnated wages for decades has been lobbied for by corporate America, and then pushed upon us by politicians as if being done for our own good. Free trade. Immigrate workers doing jobs American's won't do... (at the price they want to pay is the part they leave off), etc. All policy bad for the US worker advanced for good of corporate America.
You're quickly labeled "socialist" and told to just work harder when you point things like that out on INGO.