Comments on: What About The Jobs and Wages Cliff?

By: What About The Jobs and Wages Cliff? | digger666

What About The Jobs and Wages Cliff? | digger666 — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 20:05:31 +0000

[...] What About The Jobs and Wages Cliff? – Isaiah J. Poole. Reblogged from Campaign for America’s Future, Progressive Breakfast, 20 December 2012 [...]

By: BodiJohn

BodiJohn — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 14:55:10 +0000

Terrance Heath: well said…the working people in this country need to stand up or they will be crushed by the confluence of big money and the false, heartless and conscious less braying of the right’s media machine. And the leftist media is superficial and unable to present the real issues in a digestible fashion.
Providing workers with decent wages (not outrageous) and decent benefits should not be beyond the ability of this great nation. But, we cannot continue to turn decision making over to the very people who are causing the problem.
Again: this economy is NOT working for working people! Stop the American Exceptional-ism bullshit and start being what your fairy tale purports to be reality.

By: BodiJohn

BodiJohn — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 14:37:18 +0000

All well and good..but, the dialogue must be pushed into emergency mode because the economy is transitioning rapidlly away from local valua added manufaturing into a complex, global matrix that has left American workers, both inside the production process and outside in symbiotic services out int he cold. And it is getting worse and worse…the outcome: the American market economy is not working for the vast majority of American workers. And there is a steady stream of young workers piling up behind these changes. Unless the country can have an educated, non-political dialogue on the future I fear that the future will include increased civil unrest as more and more of the majority of citizens fall of the REAL fiscal cliff and have nothing left to lose. I hope that I am totally wrong, but the data suggest otherwise. It’s time to STOP the bullshit and get busy…or we are in real trouble!

By: Progressive Breafast - Terrance Heath

Progressive Breafast - Terrance Heath — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 12:59:08 +0000

[...] OurFuture.org’s Isaiah J. Poole: “One of the most maddening features of the current fiscal cliff/fiscal swindle debate is that the chattering class rarely acknowledges the people who have already fallen off the cliff: 5 million Americans who have been unemployed for more than 27 weeks. The roughly 7 million people who aren’t even counted as unemployed because even though they want a job they haven’t bothered looking for one. The high percentage of unemployed workers who had to settle for new jobs with a pay cut of 20 percent or more. The 2.7 million part-time workers who want a full-time job but can’t find one. And the millions of workers forced to sustain a family on a job that pays poverty-level wages. An economic debate worthy of a nation that prides itself on its moral values and compassion would have these people, along with the elderly and others who are financially struggling, at the very center of the national discourse. … It is time to push for an agenda that puts an end to throwing working-class people and the economically struggling off a cliff of economic inequality and injustice. [...]