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**EzequielTMann** · 01-24-2007, 01:33 PM

So whats his point curly? Is he suggesting that the government should take control of private businesses and dictate what CEO's may earn? We already have wage laws, so what's his beef ? Evidently he didn't offer up any solutions that his party would implement.......like a communistic approach to the private sector.

Which is it? If he didn't offer any solutions, then he didn't offer the "communistic approach" crap, right? Government taking control of private businesses ... those are your words. Are you a communist?

But check the sentence right after the part you bolded. He said "Wages and salaries for our workers are at all-time lows as a percentage of national wealth, even though the productivity of American workers is the highest in the world." In our economy today, a worker's productivity continues to increase while at the same time his wages, compared to those "in charge", are dropping.

It's a fundamental principle - one that is repeated often on USPO - that hard work is the way to get ahead. Well, people are working hard, with greater productivity than ever before, but the American Dream is getting harder to realize.

Another point he made on the economy was that the stock market isn't the best or only sign of a healthy economy, nor are the huge wages & bonuses given to CEOs. He also said:

In the early days of our republic, President Andrew Jackson established an important principle of American-style democracy – that we should measure the health of our society not at its apex, but at its base. Not with the numbers that come out of Wall Street, but with the living conditions that exist on Main Street. We must recapture that spirit today. The middle class is being squeezed out of existence through government policies aimed at rewarding the rich at the expense of everyone else.

01-24-2007, 01:33 PM	#4
EzequielTMann Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 561 Senior Member	So whats his point curly? Is he suggesting that the government should take control of private businesses and dictate what CEO's may earn? We already have wage laws, so what's his beef ? Evidently he didn't offer up any solutions that his party would implement.......like a communistic approach to the private sector. Which is it? If he didn't offer any solutions, then he didn't offer the "communistic approach" crap, right? Government taking control of private businesses ... those are your words. Are you a communist? But check the sentence right after the part you bolded. He said "Wages and salaries for our workers are at all-time lows as a percentage of national wealth, even though the productivity of American workers is the highest in the world." In our economy today, a worker's productivity continues to increase while at the same time his wages, compared to those "in charge", are dropping. It's a fundamental principle - one that is repeated often on USPO - that hard work is the way to get ahead. Well, people are working hard, with greater productivity than ever before, but the American Dream is getting harder to realize. Another point he made on the economy was that the stock market isn't the best or only sign of a healthy economy, nor are the huge wages & bonuses given to CEOs. He also said: In the early days of our republic, President Andrew Jackson established an important principle of American-style democracy – that we should measure the health of our society not at its apex, but at its base. Not with the numbers that come out of Wall Street, but with the living conditions that exist on Main Street. We must recapture that spirit today. The middle class is being squeezed out of existence through government policies aimed at rewarding the rich at the expense of everyone else.
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