Class Wars of 2012

[yeahwho]

On Election Day, The Boston Globe reported, Logan International Airport in Boston was running short of parking spaces. Not for cars — for private jets. Big donors were flooding into the city to attend Mitt Romney’s victory party.

Paul Krugman NYTimes (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/30/opinion/krugman-class-wars-of-2012.html?src=me&ref=general&_r=0)

Class warfare is not just the rich against the less well off. The rich love to dismissively claim that at every opportunity. But they cleverly mange to instigate warfare between union worker, government workers and non-government workers between rural and city dwellers and between long time citizens and recent arrivals. The rich are so clever.

[BBboy20]

To be fair, focusing on The Wealthy & The Wasted as a first step seems like a "common sense" policy to make.

[kaiser soze]

guess who is the biggest Welfare Queen of all?

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/13127-reagans-welfare-queen-found

A recent study by UC Berkeley found that Wal-Mart’s low wages are costing the state of California alone $86 million a year to provide public assistance like food stamps and healthcare to the retailer’s 44,000 low-wage employees in the state. The state spends nearly $2,000 every single year on each Wal-Mart employee who can’t afford basic essentials like housing, food, and healthcare with their Wal-Mart paycheck.

More like Class Welfare :rolleyes:

The rich and powerful are not concerned with empowering the working class - they will just as fine with this nation being a 3rd World global competitor in industry...

cheap wages = expensive bonuses!

hell you can crash a company and still make a killing on your way out the door - that's the new American Dream!

[Dorothy Wood]

Yeah, that is unbelievable, fuck 'em. They should pay a better wage. Money isn't finite anyway, and the population is growing. We need balance before things tip too far. I think we'll get it. But I live in a progressive fairyland.

[yeahwho]

Chalk up another one for the "job creators."

“It is a shift in priorities and a shift in magnitude,” Mosby said. “The board was more comfortable in maximizing profitability through efficiency initiatives in lieu of trying to aggressively seek incremental growth opportunities.”

Citigroup to Cut 11,000 Jobs and Take $1 Billion Charge (http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/12/05/citi-to-cut-11000-jobs-and-take-1-billion-charge/?hp)

Why do I get the uneasy feeling that this is just the beginning?