My second conclusion is this was written by a Socialist or a socialist type web site or publication. I would hope it's a democratic Socialist/socialist web site or publication. (A lot of them say they are until they take power).
Their solution:
1. Stop printing money and give money printing back to the US Treasury. This is something with which I agree and Socialists/socialists do not believe that government, by nature, is inefficient or evil.
2. Review the organizing movements of the late 19th century, early 20th century, like The Industrial Workers of the World (The Wobblies). Study events like the Bread and Roses Strike of Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1912.
3. Understand that, if you work for Mr.Smith's bakery or Mr.Jones's candy store or Mr.Johnson's hardware store, all places with less than 15 employees each, if you want any of their money in the form of a wage, you do what they tell you to do.
4. However, if you work for a large employer, like a global corporation, you're not working for one particular person. In fact corporations are supposed to be democratically run entities, especially corporations which are publicly traded. They do what a majority of shareholders and upper management want to do. The only people who have been increasingly left out of this democracy since the early organizers spilled blood on their behalf are the workers.
Workers in the public sector are barely holding on to their union gained benefits and, as I read letters to the editor, more and more people are blaming them for the economic woes of their communities. Instead of whining about what the public sector workers are getting, these private sector sycophants should take a page out of the Wobblies' book and fight for the same benefits. They should tell their corporate masters that, if corporations are democratically run entities, they want to be part of the democracy.
The trouble, of course, is that corporations, especially manufacturing corporations, conduct wage surveys which pit American workers against workers in Mexico, China, Vietnam and other so called third world countries. They will soon outright announce this fact to the American worker and the American worker will know that she is, unquestionably, in competition with people who are willing to work for $2.50 an hour or less.
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