Besides summer jobs in high school and college, I officially joined the workforce when Obama was sworn in as President in 2009.
Pay was alright for an entry level job. Not as much as the average salary people in my major were making, but it was something to get my foot in the door, start accumulating experience. Health insurance was alright. High deductible unlike my mom's insurance at her job, which covered and paid for everything.
Lots of changes have been made since then: overtime pay, work permits for foreign nationals, Affordable Care Act, etc.
Within a year of the new administration, all of these have been demolished. Reduced budget. Removed. Repealed. At least about to be.
Tom Brokaw on NBC used to run a segment called "The Fleecing of America." It was a series of segments "exposing cases of waste and fraud that victimize individuals or the general public." Most of them were done behind doors. I didn't think we'd see a national example currently in progress out in the open.
This affects everyone in the middle class. This includes everyone who thinks they are part of the 1% but are really in the middle class.
How do we change this besides a full blown coup or revolution? Informed voting seems to be out the window. The GOP appeals to the disenfranchised, presenting themselves as their savior, propagating class, religion, and racial warfare, and screws them over anyway. The Democrats, too, are mobilizing their efforts, appealing to social change, presenting themselves as the voice of reason, and an implied air of superiority as the intellectual.
How do you reach everyone, turning them into informed voters, without alienating and/or belittling their way of life? When education, now a luxury controlled by greedy corporations and institutions, is an informed people still possible?
I'm done.
Pay was alright for an entry level job. Not as much as the average salary people in my major were making, but it was something to get my foot in the door, start accumulating experience. Health insurance was alright. High deductible unlike my mom's insurance at her job, which covered and paid for everything.
Lots of changes have been made since then: overtime pay, work permits for foreign nationals, Affordable Care Act, etc.
Within a year of the new administration, all of these have been demolished. Reduced budget. Removed. Repealed. At least about to be.
Tom Brokaw on NBC used to run a segment called "The Fleecing of America." It was a series of segments "exposing cases of waste and fraud that victimize individuals or the general public." Most of them were done behind doors. I didn't think we'd see a national example currently in progress out in the open.
This affects everyone in the middle class. This includes everyone who thinks they are part of the 1% but are really in the middle class.
How do we change this besides a full blown coup or revolution? Informed voting seems to be out the window. The GOP appeals to the disenfranchised, presenting themselves as their savior, propagating class, religion, and racial warfare, and screws them over anyway. The Democrats, too, are mobilizing their efforts, appealing to social change, presenting themselves as the voice of reason, and an implied air of superiority as the intellectual.
How do you reach everyone, turning them into informed voters, without alienating and/or belittling their way of life? When education, now a luxury controlled by greedy corporations and institutions, is an informed people still possible?
I'm done.
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