Reply #13: +1,but dont be so distracted by the $400K(a lot was bonus)you fail to miss the fact of fascism [View All]

[stockholmer]

for the bankers....private profits, but socialized losses

They love to get people focusing on a job or person they can identify with (in this case a secretary) getting more than normal (but still a drop in the bucket of the overall wealth earned at the firm), whilst the true theft is made to be esoterically cleansed from a cognitive recognition function.


It's the same trick the Tea Baggers fall for when they attack teachers, unions, etc. They don't realize that it is not that teachers, etc (again people and jobs that they can relate to on a common socio-economic level) have had huge increases in wages/benefits, its that th private US worker has been decimated. The unions, in some cases, have lost gains too, and at best are simply treading water.


Think back 20 or 30 years ago. A public job was taken by people who were willing to trade higher private sector wages (that came with more risk) for the security of steady wages, benefits, and job security.

Now that the private workforce has been so diminished via globalization, NAFTA, and a policy from the top down of 'absolute advantage' in terms of free trade practice, they are now having their anger turned against a group of people who have simply maintained their wage/lifestyle levels at a marginal rate.