A teacher’s perspective: Firing Day at a Charter School

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12. Job Security?...a thing of the past for the Working Class

After NAFTA started the flight of good jobs from the USA,
and Corporations were free to use Slave Labor in foreign countries to drive down wages and benefits here at home...THAT was the beginning of the end.

Unemployment, kept artificially high added more pressure,
along with the bi-partisan busting of Unions.

As if that were not enough, In-Sourcing, hiring foreign workers to come in who were willing to do the jobs that couldn't be outsourced for 1/2 the pay and NONE of the "benefits", was added to the recipe.

Raising the price of Higher Education to absurd levels, ensuring that graduates were deeply indebted to the Ownership Class BEFORE they even took their first job as a nice touch too.


Job Security? a thing of the past.
Welcome to the New NeoLiberal Free Trading American Century.
THIS is our new normal.

New Rule (Passed by Congress and signed by President Obama) signals Kiss of Death for Pensions
http://www.cnbc.com/id/100694955

Wealthy win lion's share of major tax breaks
http://www.boston.com/business/news/2013/05/29/wealthy-win-lion-share-major-tax-breaks/Ua0UyYle21EUXub7g1suCI/story.html

Half of America is in poverty, and its creeping toward 75%
http://www.alternet.org/economy/real-numbers-half-america-poverty-and-its-creeping-toward-75-0

Wealth gap widens as labor's share of income falls
http://www.nbcnews.com/business/wealth-gap-widens-labors-share-income-falls-1B6097385

As the Economy Recovers, the Wealth Gap Widens
http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/rick-newman/2013/03/11/as-the-economy-recovers-the-wealth-gap-widens

Top One Percent Captured 121 Percent Of All Income Gains
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/12/top-one-percent-income-gains_n_2670455.html

Corporate Profits Hit Record High While Worker Wages Hit Record Low
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/12/03/1270541/corporate-profits-wages-record/?mobile=nc

The above does NOT happen by accident.
It is the result of Planning and Policy.

Until WE have a Political Party that represents the Working Class,
this IS the New Normal.


[font color=firebrick][center]"There are forces within the Democratic Party who want us to sound like kinder, gentler Republicans.
I want a party that will STAND UP for Working Americans."
---Paul Wellstone [/font][/center]
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Shortly before Sen Wellstone was killed[/center][/font]