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Working men and women of America, speak out!
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by Leon Fisher, Unknown News
March 3, 2004
There comes a time when a working man cannot pay his rent or put food on his table, when his job has been sent overseas. There comes a time when a working man finds that those whom he helped elect do not have his best interests in mind. And finally there comes a time when a working man must raise his voice and be heard or lose his way of life and the future of his children. And that time has come!
The Corporate rats and their agents in Washington are now well on their way to disenfranchise the American worker. The statistics are there in front of our eyes. Since GW Bush was selected as President, after the theft of the 2000 election, two and a half million Americans have lost their jobs. This total is matched only by the Hoover Administration during the Great Depression, perhaps the worst time in the history of labor in America. And now we are seeing what appears to be the beginning of a further flood of lost American jobs overseas in what the corporate elite are innocently calling outsourcing.
This latest move to increase corporate profit at the expense the American workforce is so blatant that the public relations offices of corporations like Microsoft are being instructed to keep as low-key as possible when discussing the transfer of jobs to India and China. Meanwhile President-select Bush is telling the nation that the economy, thanks to his tax cuts and incentives, is back on track.
It's back on track for Bush's wealthy contributors perhaps, but certainly not for the average worker. This so-called economic recovery has not produced any significant job growth, and even Bush's own economic advisors were forced to admit to this fact.
And what are our representatives doing about this worsening situation? It is what they are not doing for the American worker which stands out.
Congress, ignoring the worsening situation as though it does not exist, has voted for, and signed into law every piece of legislation favorable to big business to the detriment of the American work force. It is open season on the American worker -- either he has already lost his job to lower-wage workers overseas, and now is forced to work for lower wages himself, or his job will be "outsourced" soon. Add to this, as a result of irresponsible government spending, huge deficits the average working man will be forced to pay in higher local, state, and federal taxes. Added to this burden the astronomical costs of Bush's failed war in Iraq, not to mention a devalued currency.
But the worst thing of all is the realization that the men and women we have elected to represent us are hanging us out to dry. No, Mr. Bush, don't try to tell us who America's enemies are, we are getting a good idea who America's enemies really are.
Workers, if you are content with the status quo, then remain silent. Those of you who do not want to see yourselves or your children become slaves in a corporate-owned sweatshop, speak out.
This is a perfect opportunity, as we are now in a presidential election. Call, write, or e-mail the candidates, your congressman, your local newspapers. Let them know you are opposed to the continuing failure of what the corporate special interests refer to as "free trade", and the negative influence these powerful lobbies have on members of Congress.
© 2004, by the author.
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