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Octafish

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6. Excellent points. Nowadays, Corporate America absconds with the Workers' Pensions.

Reply to SoCalDem (Reply #4)

Tue May 22, 2012, 01:13 PM

May 2012

Social Security today is the main "pension plan" for the large majority of Americans. From what I can see, that is the situation because there is little in the way of the law anymore to stop the owners of a corporation from taking whatever funds they have access to. And now the ownership class' loyal servants in the Federal Government are getting into the Act:

Republicans Stealing Postal Workers Pension *

* Sorry about the missing apostrophe -- something about special characters and the link code.

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The way old slaves were treated helps explain the attitude toward older workers, social security... [View all] Octafish May 2012 OP

yikes! G_j May 2012 #1

Mr. Jourdon Anderson's excellent letter to his old master. Octafish May 2012 #3

+1 n/t lumberjack_jeff May 2012 #7

Wow. That is great. drm604 May 2012 #8

WOW!! Just WOW! loudsue May 2012 #9

remarkable G_j May 2012 #12

I do believe this letter is worthy of Mark Twain. cliffordu May 2012 #13

Kick and Recommend ~ thanks Octafish goclark May 2012 #19

and we all know how the ownership class felt about educating their workers, too grasswire May 2012 #2

Isn't that the truth? Octafish May 2012 #5

Until fairly "recent" history, the older people were just a normal part SoCalDem May 2012 #4

Excellent points. Nowadays, Corporate America absconds with the Workers' Pensions. Octafish May 2012 #6

My eyes are burning after reading that. enough May 2012 #10

Truly heartbreaking. The thing is, this all isn't the ancient past: Octafish May 2012 #11

Southern slave culture ErikJ May 2012 #14

Thomas Johnson wrote an excellent accounting: 'Twenty-Eight Years a Slave'... Octafish May 2012 #16

"95% of the whites weren't slave owners" ... at any given time. ieoeja May 2012 #18

Reading those accounts at your first link... countryjake May 2012 #15

It is sickening. I force myself to learn these things because the slaveowner class had children. Octafish May 2012 #17