Modern Day Slavery

The Reagan, Clinton and Bush regimes extinguished the
rights of American workers to make a decent living by the imposition of
policies that have resurrected slavery by the outsourcing of most of the good
paying jobs here. Example: The American textile industry outsourced to Mexico
and $2-a-day workers. The constant mantra from our leaders “American workers
must learn to compete with the global workers” or slaves-Nike-$.25-an-hour
slaves with no benefits, etc. Our industry slavers closed down here to maximize
their now enormous profits, paying no tariffs and little or no taxes-even
getting subsidies from our oligarchy government. Eleven trillion dollars is
hidden away in Swiss banks. Is one of them Phil Gramm bank??? And that is the
least amount known about and just the tip of the iceberg!

Today, in this ongoing manufactured crisis to crush the
American workers even further, to eliminate benefits, retirements etc. and
hoping to pay $.25 an hour to the remaining job holders. We, the American people,
should now demand that all of the Congressmen who facilitated this economic
crime should have their salaries reduced to $.25 an hour, with no health and
retirement benefits and no paid aides to do most of their work, and also make
it illegal for any retired congressmen to sit on highly-paid corporate boards
after their retirements. Last time I read, there were 300 retired congressmen
sitting on corporate boards. Is it reward for complicity in serving the
corporate and super riches’ interests instead of the common people’s
interests-or the other 99 percent of the population??? This is now the country
of opportunity for one percent of the population!

Instead of slavery, resurrect Pres. Eisenhower’s tax and
tariff policies. Put caps on obscenely high salaries by imposing a 99 percent
tax over a certain decent amount. There was one known billionaire before Reagan
and today it is close to 1,000-at whose expense???

This article appears in Jul 30 – Aug 5, 2009.