Reply #22: I have a friend who works at a huge international company that [View All]

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manufactures very expensive items that are in the garage of probably one out of seven American homes. She says that the people who work in the plants have it made compared to all the white collar workers because they have unions.

She works on a floor of a building across the street from international corporate headquarters with dozens of lawyers and accountants who are ALL temporary/contract workers. Not a single one of them is a direct employee of the company. They have very little job security and no benefits, but they're all people with undergraduate and graduate degrees who, in a previous era, would have been solidly middle class and would have had job security and futures and secure retirements.

So, not only are the unemployed increasingly coming from sectors of the economy that are well-educated and experiensed, many people from that same demographic who are lucky to be employed aren't really in a much better position except that they are, for now, getting a pay check.

We used to have one america, then we had three, and now our government is taking the America in the middle out so that there are only two Americas left.