Isn’t Crushing a Person’s Spirit as Bad as Taking His Life? [View All]

[The Whiskey Priest]

With the news of Ford’s workforce reduction plan we are once again faced with the reality of economic forces crushing the spirit of the working class. Because of bad management 30,000 or more of the working class are now faced with economic certainty of hard times.

So it goes, for over the four decades the American working class has been decimated by the economic forces arrayed against them. As the global free-traders send wages off pell-mell in a race to the bottom the working class is being drained of its dream of a better life. In concert with a class of politicians who are selling the government to the highest bidder, who turns out to be those who own the means of production, the corporations are heaping more and more adverse economic weight upon the working class.

As the neo-cons raise the specter of enemies lurking in the shadow, the real danger of diminishing the hope and spirit of an entire generation of working people is real in every daily headline.