Reply #46: Apparently you've never been outsourced or downsized, and are... [View All]

[newswolf56]

not among the vast majority of U.S. workers (myself included) who have not gotten a real raise since 1973 -- this while executive pay has increased by at least 951 percent, and the ratio of executive pay to wages has soared from 41:1 -- that is, 41 dollars for every dollar earned by a worker -- to 431:1. Doubt these outrageous, infuriating numbers? Google "executive pay versus worker pay" and scroll attentively.

(A "real raise," by the way, is defined as an increase in disposable income. Even the very best paid U.S. workers -- those of us with unions to strong-arm the bosses -- have just barely managed to stay abreast of inflation, and this often at the price of surrendering to huge healthcare and pension take-backs imposed by the corporations: a net loss -- while the 'zecutives wallow obscenely in the ever-increasing portion they hog for themselves.)