Unemployment Extension Passes Hurdle in Senate...

[Crossless2.0]

[quote='Gish' pid='579265' dateline='1389250844']Are you daft? Nothing helps poor people like employers making more and more money. Why, the best thing that ever happened to a WalMart employee was the Waltons making 30k times what they do while they rely on a second slave-wage job and government assistance to survive.

What good is the purchasing power of money you don't have?

I think we need a revival of unions in these cases, rather than government benefits. Why take taxpayers money to close pay the gaps left by corporate employers? They're the employers and they're the ones who who should be paying living wages from their profits,notd the government.

You mean the same corporate entities who have spent the past 3-4 decades lobbying so successfully in D.C. to gut union protections? When you have congressional representatives serving as little more than useful idiots on behalf of their corporate donors, do you seriously think they will restore the "good old days" when many more Americans enjoyed the protections of union membership?

Short of eliminating or severely curtailing corporate contributions to campaigns and PACs, you will never get the reforms necessary to reinvigorate union presence and influence in this country.

And of course that won't happen because corporations are somehow persons with First Amendment rights and money is speech.