United Steelworkers President Leo Gerard likes to say that Washington policymakers "treat the people who take a shower after work much differently than they treat the people who shower before they go to work." In the 21st century Gilded Age, the blue-collar shower-after-work crowd is [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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Reader Comments
(I had already posted this with the question of the week, but it fits here as well.)
AIG, even though a disgusting situation, is just a diversion from the real issue
Addendum to prior comments:
While we are cancelling contracts we need to renegotiate the contract with members of Congress. They just got a pay raise. They have benefits and pay far exceeding their worth to the American people.
If they work for us (well, that’s another debate issue) they should not be allowed to set their own pay packages.
Everyone MUST SUBSTITUTE the word government for the word taxpayer in order to find the truth in every single republican canard spoken since July 1980
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