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Like Jesse James, I know a lot of small business owners who made their fortunes selling their products and services to highly paid union workers.
And how many Jesse James' are out there? A lot more people in the middle class got there by having a good paying union job. Your way, only the inventor or business owner makes a good living. If he just stays working for Boyd Coddington, he never gets ahead. Unless they pay their employees well and if so, that's because unions brought up the wages of all working Americans.
You would have never made it into the top 1% if we did things Ron Paul's way. For many reasons. No Degree? You work for someone else?
And you would be doing what your grandfather did. Either that or get someone else to let you be their apprentice. So you would probably fall into the small merchantile class.
Most Americans would fall into the large working poor class if it weren't for liberal progressive democracy. I would think most Republicans think they would never fall into the last catagory but I have to say many of them are wrong.
I hold a job that most people with advanced degrees salavate over. I grossed nearly 200,000 last year. I can and probably will be starting a consulting business soon and it will eclipse the numbers brought in by my salary / bonus. I have learned a skill, worked hard and leveraged my people skills to create relationships that have allowed me to advance in my career.
You claim high paid union workers buy goods... Yeah.. Look at what liberal / union policies have done to Michigan, Illinois, Ohio, etc. etc. They're rotting cesspools... That's what progressive liberal policies get you.
I am not a pure Libertarian or a devout Ron Paul follower. I do believe however that our government has grown FAR outside it's boundaries and it needs to be scaled back dramatically.
As for your comments on our currency.. Sure it's a fiat currency.. The problem with your disregard for the debt is they are PRINTING currency which does what? That's right, DEVALUES IT... So if you have savings and investments that are substantial they are being devalued.. You are being robbed blind... Nice job buddy...
Zimbabwe anyone??? You do know about ZImbabwe right? I have actual ZImbabwe currency right here in my office.. One single bill, five hundred trillion zimbabwe dollars.. Shocking huh? It used to trade on par with the US Dollar in the 80's.. WHat happened?
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Get a clue dude.
Hey I don't like the fiat currency any more than you do. But what especially sucks is that i the past 30 years the middle class hasn't gotten a raise and the rich have gotten 300 times richer.
No coincidence that in those same 30 years, union membership went from 35% of our workforce to 12%. No wonder the GOP hate and want to kill unions. And with it the middle class.
Liberal policies will spread that wealth out. Its not class warfare. Its doing what works for the country as a whole. Its doing what we did before Bush changed things. And what he did didn't work. And they were never supposed to be permanent. So why cry that they are ending? We've always had a progressive tax system and it doesn't matter that you are greedy and don't like to pay what 70% of us think is your fair share. You are greedy. But how dare you rich dudes change the system now that you are rich so that it benefits you but makes it harder for the rest of us?
Liberal policies will reward those who suppor them. Just ask GM. It is class warfare and it does not work for the coutnry as a whole.
GM, as part of that restructuring now pays it's entry level workers less than the comparable entry level job at a car factory in the south. Only union money and corruption in places like Detroit have inflated prices relative to other places. So the guy in the south has pretty good buying power.
We still have a progressive tax system. Nobody paid that 70% and all of you morons know it. So stop your crying about greed.
GM changed the rules, why can't others. You sound like Ted Kennedy (so glad he's gone).
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