Thu, 05 Apr 2007

War on the Middle Class -- clarifying the issues:

Presumably between Corporate and Aristocratic America, on the one side, and us on the other.

Their weapons:

• Education costs
• Mortgages and rents
• Loans, credit-card interest
• Insurances
• "Health care"
• Financial services, advice
• Legal costs
• Depreciating our self-image ("You need our "product" to make you whole.")
• Casinos, lotteries, etc.
• Basically non-stuff stuff - you cannot put it in your truck but you gotta keep paying for it.

• "Play our games and then, unfortunately, your needs make you too expensive for us to try to employ you."

• Self-educate, live cheap and healthy, pay cash, take chances, know a trade, barter, ...

• Web page with job titles, names, addresses, schedules, vulnerabilities -- (We suggest paint guns to start the hunt.)

(Lou Dobbs thinks that raising the minimum wage is part of the answer.)

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