Reply #92: I love how these posts are never responded to [View All]

[redqueen]

Workers fought and died to enact the laws which created the robust middle class in this country, which was the root of our success.

Now these cheap-labor conservatives (and cheap-labor libertarians as well, it seems) want to back to the bad old days, when there was just the rich and the (mostly uneducated) poor. Unsurprisingly, things were much easier for the rich then.

Starting in the 80's, the rich managed to convince some of the upper middle class (and even average middle class) that they were actually rich, so they helped the rich along in their nefarious plans to strip the wealth away from the people in order to line their own pockets. Now here we are and the middle class are slowly realizing they've been had.

Sadly, it seems many who know full-well they're not rich still defend the actions of the greedy, either not remembering how they got a weekend to enjoy and things like the ability to have their children attend school rather than work 12-hour days in a factory and all those lovely benefits those brave souls fought and died for - or beliveing that soon they, too, will be one of the rich, so they don't have to worry how the 'other half' lives.

You reap what you sow.