WORKING STIFF EARNINGS AREN’T “BENEFITS” AND THEY’RE NOT “RIGHTS”, EARNINGS ARE WHAT WE’VE EARNED.
UNION LEADERS have to fight, today, now, for the productive use of ALL our earnings so we all have access to those earnings.
We should ALL have earned some piece of health care access and retirement security and retraining and quality education for our young – instead of the crap most of us have and the crap all of us will have after the heirs of ronnie raygun have their way.
For the un-organized working stiffs, it is long past time for unions to throw away the formula of get organized in order to get treated better than crap.
We unionized working stiffs have to help ALL working stiffs if we want all working stiffs to help us.
This fight is going to be MORE than feel good marches and rallies, this fight has to be about the rules we work under, the rules that make sure our earnings are stolen by those at the top so those at the top can stay on top, stealing.
OUR EARNINGS AREN’T “BENEFITS” AND THEY’RE NOT “RIGHTS”, EARNINGS ARE WHAT WE’VE EARNED.
The resources of the community are the sum of all OUR individual earnings. OUR individual earnings have been earned at different rates, depending on a lot of variables – your skills, your family connections, your company’s ability to rig the rules to stop competition, society deciding the cost of family wage jobs is a LOWER cost that corruption and squalor.
Pools of OUR individual earnings SHOULD pay for productive community investments for our retirements.
Pools of OUR individual earnings SHOULD pay for access to health CARE so we individuals can be productive members of the community.
Pools of OUR individual earnings SHOULD pay for education for the young to take their positions in our complex community.
Pools of OUR individual earnings SHOULD pay for ongoing retraining and reeducation so we can maximize productivity for the community when the community doesn’t need barrel makers or vacuum tube fixers anymore.
Pools of OUR individual earnings SHOULD pay for the community investments in libraries and parks and transportation and safe streets ... that help communities grow and grow healthy.
Pools of OUR individual earnings SHOULD pay for the watchdogs to make sure that rules which affect the community are efficient AND are fair AND are NOT rigged for different groups of cronies.
MON SEP 06, 2010 AT 06:00 AM PDT
We're ALL Working Stiffs - Work Rule$ For All
by seabos84
http://www.dailykos.com/...
WHAT HAPPENS AFTER THE MARCHES?
The people of Egypt got tired of being ripped off for the benefit of a layer of thieving scum at the top. What happens AFTER the marches? Public workers of Wisconsin are standing up to right wing lies about public workers. What happens AFTER the marches?
The rule makers go back to rigging the rules about the community resources it took ALL of us to make. They’re going to rig the rules so that the surpluses of the companies and the organizations go into the pockets of those at the top, so those at the top can stay on top rigging the rules to stay on top rigging the rules! Pretty complicated, eh?
WHAT HAPPENED TO CAUSE THE MARCHES?
The rule makers have been busy rigging the rules about community resources it took ALL of us to make. They’ve rigged the rules so that the surpluses of the companies and the organizations go into the pockets of those at the top, regardless of merit, so those at the top can stay on top rigging the rules to stay on top rigging the rules! Pretty complicated, eh?