It's a question of fairness.

[kentuck]

Everybody wants to be King of the World, but unfortunately, we are all in this little boat together. Everyone must pay their fair share.

For thirty years, workers wages have stagnated. All the productivity went to the very top. CEO's kept putting their hands in the pot for more. Eventually, those workers, who can no longer spend on their credit cards and can no longer re-finance their homes to pay off those credit cards, see the light.

They drove this country into huge debt and deficits, not even the Social Security fund was enough for them to borrow and spend, they had to have more, more, more! They wanted their wars but they didn't want to pay for them. They wanted all the regulations removed. They wanted taxes lowered under the pretext that they would create American jobs. They did not.

They left the country high and dry, those folks that took all those mortgages and bundled them into unknown types of securities and sold them on the world market. Then when the balloon burst, they did not have the money to cover their bets. They did not want the world to come after them with ball bats to bust their kneecaps, so they asked the American taxpayers to cover their bets.

They asked the American people to sacrifice but they, themselves, only wanted more, more, more! They wanted more taxcuts. They wanted more bonuses. They wanted bigger profits. They wanted the people to sacrifice.

Well, the time has come to ask our wealthy friends to donate to the pot. Put their money on the table. The people must demand it. We must put Democrats into office that understand the situation and are willing to carry it out. What other choice do we have??

[Newest Reality]

1. Bernie Saunders is

one of the few democrats that has said and done what makes sense and resonates with me ... and he's an independent. Go figure.

[AKDavy]

2. Labels mean nothing anymore

Too many betray their labels;
Few are what they pretend to be;
Servants of the oligarchs;
Whoring for favor and fee.

Watch what they do. What a liar says is meaningless.

Sadly, Sanders is among a tiny handful of exceptions.

[Newest Reality]

3. Substance and actions are what matter, ey?

Thanks for the poetic response.

Welcome to DU!

[AKDavy]

6. "Substance and action"

A very unreasonable demand, isn't it?

Thanks!

[pacalo]

4. Back in the '70s, I remember getting, on the average, 8% cost-of-living raises.

Sometimes they were as high as 10%. Those were the days when employers cared about employee satisfaction; it was understood then that high morale enhanced job productivity & attention to safety on the job.

Then a republican puppet came into the picture & it's been downhill ever since. While everything but the paycheck goes up, they're trying to take away what little the workers have.

Putting all the pieces together, I believe their goal is to "globalize" working conditions, putting the U.S. workers on the same scale as third-world countries so that corporations won't have to relocate overseas to pocket more of their profits. Perhaps they're growing weary of all the backward ways of life in third-world countries & are pushing politicians to reach that goal.

[kentuck]

5. Whenever companies had 10% productivity...

...the workers would share in that productivity. Until the 1980's... And it never returned. And we wonder why people have no money to spend in this economy??