Right around Thanksgiving time my sister Rita - and many others
employed by Blue Cross here- get the depressing news that they are all
facing a layoff. Of course, only naïve employees of Corporate America
think ANY job is secure in this post Great Recession era. For 30 years
Rita had been happily employed as a LPN at Kent County Hospital. About
30 of these LPNs - good , skilled, beloved health care workers- were
suddenly jobless 5 years ago.
Capitalist propaganda plays a BLAME THE VICTIM game with the exploited and oppressed in America. Its tells poor kids that education and job skills are the key to job stability and a pass to a lifetime of middle class bliss. Then the government cuts back on public education, tuition grants, and job training. If so many people crack up under the stress, there is always the prison system for restoring their CHARACTER and mental health.
Why oh why should working class - middle class - Americans think capitalism is the last word in social sanity ? Ask Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont. He is at least making SOCIALISM smell good again.
Capitalist propaganda plays a BLAME THE VICTIM game with the exploited and oppressed in America. Its tells poor kids that education and job skills are the key to job stability and a pass to a lifetime of middle class bliss. Then the government cuts back on public education, tuition grants, and job training. If so many people crack up under the stress, there is always the prison system for restoring their CHARACTER and mental health.
Why oh why should working class - middle class - Americans think capitalism is the last word in social sanity ? Ask Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont. He is at least making SOCIALISM smell good again.
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