It’s time to move on to the nomination. PENNSYLVANIA will save the country from the continuing operation of the old way of doing business.

Thank You,

George

“‘This is a Class War’ — Auto Workers Fight 50 Percent Pay Cut Demand

American Axle stands out in the U.S. auto industry because it has stayed profitable since spinning off from General Motors. Staying in the black hasn’t stopped the company’s CEO, Dick Dauch — who himself averaged $14.5 million in annual compensation between 2003 and 2006 — from demanding two-tier wage concessions.

In 2004, American Axle workers were told by the company and the UAW International that they had to accept two-tier wages. Although the AAM contract was voted down in the Detroit flagship plant, it passed nationally over job security fears.

In 2007, two-tier wages were expanded to the Big 3. Now AAM wants the same wage scale found at those companies, a scale that nearly halves starting wages from $27 to $14 an hour.”

http://www.alternet.org/workplace/82319/

Folks need to wake up in this country and stop being led around by their emotions, either that or they will continue to get screwed into the grave.

The sad part is that there is *no* class warfare in this country, or rather only one side is fighting, and it is not the working class.

If folks don’t stop being suckered into parroting these intentionally distracting and dividing diversions they can write off their future and their children’s shot at the American Dream.

Keep your eye on the ball America, it’s all about the money. All this show and spin and deception is about the money.

If anyone is willing to stand up and talk honestly about the economic foundation of America and the shell games being perpetrated against *you and your family*, listen closely and don’t let others change the subject to continue the status quo.

“follow the money.”

I went to college because I busted my ass through school and was able to get a scholarship. What the scholarship didn’t cover, I took loans out for, which I’m still paying today (and much like Obama, I pay more in student loan payments than I do for my mortgage monthly).

The only person who can decide whether or not you succeed and what is success is you, no one else. If you think that you’re successful with your $28k/year, then you are.

Not everyone is able to make it through college for various reasons and if you don’t make it through college, you are basically fucked. I would love to be able to go back to school and move out west were all the jobs are, but how in the world could I possible afford that?

The answer is there is no way.

There are much, much, much more serious issues going on in the world and are being ignored.

And I hear no mention of the “F Word.” Fascism. Man o man are we screwed.

In my opinion what Senator Obama said is very accurate. The loss of jobs and subsequent lack of economic recovery does tend to modify both the behavior and attitudes of any group of people who find their way of life threatened and future’s uncertain.

If I had a family to feed, no money and their way a raise in crime, what would I do? Well, assuming I didn’t have the will or means to move, I think it is completely reasonable to think that I would pray for help, my lively-hood to be restored and do anything within reason to protect my family, property and make sure I could provide.

So is the concept that religion (for community support and hope) and gun ownership (for protection or even for hunting) would become a greater part of one’s life than it was when I felt more certain about my future and ability to provide?

If not right away, what about after 2 years, 5 years, a generation???

I don’t really think this unreasonable or even uncharacteristic of the situation at all.

And regarding immigration … so under these same circumstances of economic depression, the idea that I might be resentful to a group of people the media tends to cast as one of the key reasons for my hardships by converting jobs that should be supporting my family into slave wage opportunities for people who aren’t even citizens.

Well, I believe that attitude of resentment, while not universal, is certainly not unreasonable either.

The only thing about the senator’s words tat should be of concern to anyone is that no one else has bothered to engage you into facing the reality of your situation before now.

The fact that administration after administration they win your votes with lies and empty promises.

I don’t think the senator has all the answers, I don’t think he needs to. Having the answers is not the quality that a great leader needs.

I do believe that Senator Obama will however raise the real issues that have been destroying not just the middle class, but our very democracy for decades.

And by bring these issues front and center, he will force the nation to think critically about the real issues and deal with them.

The very exchange on this web page is proof of that. Imagine if this debate was happening on CNN or any of the major networks, instead of on an obscure political web site.

Democracy is not clean easy or free.

There is room for differing ideas, beliefs and even truths. What is true for me may not be true for you … that’s ok.

What’s important is that we can have different truths and all have our needs met, instead of our society being hedged to support someone else’s truth.

The involuntary support of an unjust war, the tax incentives that actually make it more profitable for businesses to send jobs overseas than to hire US workers, the vilification of our neighboring countries, how are living in hardships many of us cannot even imagine.

The truth is hard, and sometime even unbelievable when you’ve been lied to so long.

But if you are offended by it, then ask yourself if you are offended more by the words that you disliked, or by the fact that they might just be true.

$92k/year isn’t out of reach for anyone willing to work for it. In fact, it’s still considered middle class (granted, upper-middle-class).

I earn more than that a year, and I came from parents who barely broke $80k/year combined (in Southern California).

I want the person who made their own success in the White House, and not the ones who have been piggybacking on the success of their spouse. I want the person who’s been speaking the truth throughout the campaign. I want the person who realized that the U.S. IS damaged goods and needs to be fixed. I want the best candidate for the job. That is Obama.

@djenah

Please, explain your statement, otherwise it appears that you’re nothing more than a closet racist.

The Senator was right to say that his statement was not worded properly. But I believe the idea he was expressing was ill-conceived in any event.

But only 92 K. How did he send his kids to day care? He must have scrimped and saved, maybe coupons from the newspaper, and waited for twofers from Tiffany’s.

Oh yeah, this guy’s in touch. In touch with his bazillionaire friends.

Fortunately, we’ll have a Marine in the white house next January.