| numonex said:
10% unemployment rate and it is going up. Republicans or Democrats can not change anything. De-Industrialisation and shipping off a lot of jobs overseas to make quick short term huge profits has been costly. American Corporatism is pure evil. Why are Americans so against unions and workers rights protection legislation? In my view/opinion everyone should have a god given right to a job. We all know of the widespread problems of high unemployment and high homeless rates = high crime rates. Workers united we will never be defeated. Socialism = workers and people movement. Europe has strong unions and higher minimum wage and higher taxes but at least it does not have the widespread rich-poor divide which plagues the US. Yes the US are super rich but there are a lot of super poor. 1% of the US elite control and own 35% of the US wealth. 20% wealthy people in the US controls and owns 85% of the US wealth. The remaining 80% of the US have to live off the remaining 15% US wealth. This may sound like good old class war rhetoric. |
First off, factor for age and you will see the "Class war" numbers as the manipulative garbage that they really are. People who are about to retire have built up massive wealth and have very high incomes while people who are starting out in their career have neither.
Beyond that, there is a very strong correlation between stronger union influence in a region and higher unemployment. If you look at automobile manufacturers you can see the reason for this being that all three unionized American automobile manufacturers were slowly being pushed out of business by their non-unionized competition; and if it wasn't for government interference there would only be 1 American automobile manufacturer left.
