Middle Class R.I.P.

[NorthCarolina]

Labor Day as Memorial Holiday; Middle Class R.I.P.

For OpEdNews: Rob Kall - Writer

Obama, the Dems in congress-- they've sold out the middle class.
If you're making more than a million a year, go ahead, celebrate labor day.
Otherwise, get off your butt and use the day to get active and fight for the future of the middle class, because it is at great risk, already drawing its last dying breaths. Don't kid yourself if you think otherwise.

Forget about Labor Day as the day to celebrate the worker. Workers have been so screwed, it's time to take the paid day off to do all you can to fight for the survival of the American worker, of the American middle class, of jobs that pay living wages.

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the middle class is worse off now than it was in 2008. Pathetic, suck-up apologists for spineless or sold out Democratic legislators are telling us that Obama did what he could. The poor legislators were hamstrung by filibustering Republicans.

Bullshit.

Read More: http://www.opednews.com/articles/Labor-Day-as-Memorial-Holi-by-Rob-Kall-100905-537.html

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1. I wonder why the article goes on to beat up on the unemployed.

<snip> I don't understand why the millions of unemployed have not rised up and made a lot of noise-- a hell of a lot of noise. Where are their spines? Have they been beated down so badly that they can't speak up, stand up and insist that the White House and congress do at least as good a job rescuing them as they did the banksters.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Labor-Day-as-Memorial-Holi-by-Rob-Kall-100905-537.html

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2. Add together all the votes of Wall Street, big banks and business who got the billion$ & billion$

and it won't amount to anything. Besides, in spite of their being bailed out by Obama they will be voting overwhelmingly Republican.

The masses, the Americans living their lives of quiet desperation who have lost their jobs and maybe their homes feel shell-shocked and betrayed because many of them were looking to Obama and the Democrats to help those who deserved help and not to refill the coffers of wealthy business who were guilty of dragging the country into this mess.

My guess is that these average Americans who have been hurt will use the one weapon that is available to all of them, the vote, and punish the Democrats at the ballot box. This is not to say that they will be voting for the Republicans, but they will be voting against the Democrats.