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By Clay Hinman, Thornton

Over the years we’ve heard it all about minorities and about silent majorities.

The one thing neither corporations nor the government is prepared to deal with is a vocal majority. The American middle class is on the verge of becoming quite vocal. None of us wants to do something that would harm anyone. The truth is, we are being harmed. Big business is pressuring the government saying, “Don’t throw the immigrants out. We have a labor shortage.”

We know people 30, 40, and 50 years old who are standing in line to go to work at WalMart with a starting wage of $6.50 per hour—less than half what the government says is a minimal living wage. The labor supply is so high that the bottom has dropped out of the market. Businesses like it because they don’t have to compete to buy our services. There is NO labor shortage. We have a labor surpluss.

We’ve been paid so little that we’re forced to take on more than one job. Doing so only floods the market with even more cheap available labor. In the long run, we don’t earn enough to live up to the standards established in the media. Many of our young have become so discouraged and overwhelmed by the situation that they willingly fail to launch. They sit at home after graduating high school playing video games and complaining that there aren’t any good jobs.

Money hoards are gone and businesses are pushing us to take on credit card debts. Even that doesn’t stimulate the market enough so many businesses have stopped dealing with people and turned their focus towards business to business goods and services.

Still trying to maximize their profits, powerful corporations over the years have pressured our government to offer them more and more tax advantages.

We’re told that the wealthy pay too much while the majority of us can not afford most of the tax write-offs, shelters, declarations, and advantages of the wealthy. The wealthiest in our nation brought unfair equalizers to the bargaining table and the workers were told to be quiet because they don’t have anything to think with. This isn’t the American Dream. Enough! Living in the United States is a privilege. What lays ahead are tough decisions about immigration, available labor supply, minimum wages, secure boarders, campaign reform, campaign financing, socialized health care, and international relations. We need a smaller labor supply and less government collaboration with wealthy powerful special interest groups. We need government officials who are willing to respect rather than bend the laws. If we can’t ship at least half of the immigrants out of the U.S. and register the rest, perhaps the rising vocal majority should pass a petition around to deport the politicians. By filling their posts, at least some of us would get to retire.

READER COMMENTS

I want to know how does a wrong make a right? Illegals having babies in america become citizens. I want illegals to know that people came to this country to become US citizens, blacks were forced to come on slave ships, hung on trees and still are discriminated against, and if they break the law they go to jail and leave their families. I want all the mexican laungage taken down in the stores and on the phone, make them learn english and go to war and they cant get a job unless they know english, like my sister couldnt get a job because she was not bilingual come on america lets stop being suckers by people who dont care about being US citizens, yeh buying houses and cars and I cant even get a car unless i have a cosigner whos signing for them... Bush.

Illegals stealing jobs, contracts, and "voting" in Northeast Denver. No blacks on RTD's board of directors. Black votes "nullified". GOP and Mormon Church stealing my disabled miliatry veterans job and contracting set-asides in CCHE, CBMS, T-REX, Fas Tracks, and Fitz redevelopment. I'm tired of being the illegals, GOP, and Mormons, nappy-headed "H_". Where's Obama when you need him?

I concur. Speak it loud and proud.

The American worker is being attacked from both inward pressures from importing a cheap labor market from Latin America, and from corporations exploiting cheaper labor markets worldwide.

Congress wants the average citizen to subsidize cheap labor for business by legalizing the 12-20 million aliens currently being debated in the Senate. Business will get the benefits of paying low wages and the citizens will get to foot the bill to keep the families of these low wage earners from starving through government social subsidies.

According to the Center for Immigration Studies in Washington DC, 60% of those about to be legalized do not have a high school education and will cost the taxpayer a net negative $19,000 per family per year in subsidies.

Congress is promoting the demise of the middle class by importing cheap labor (illegal immigrants) and allowing corporations to "globalize" into cheap third world labor markets.

When jobs are taken away from Americans by US corporations looking to increase profits by exploiting cheaper labor markets in third world countries, with the immediate and long term negative effects of lowering the standard of living for middle income and lower income American citizens, how can it be justified that legal U.S. corporate citizens are displaying social responsibility to the US citizenry which grants it it's freedoms, securities and protections?

If American industrialized interests are attacked or threatened abroad, say Nicaragua, it won't be Nicaraguan young men and women coming to their rescue; but America's finest which will die in defense of the socially irresponsible greed of corporations that have deserted it's compatriots.

Bombard your Senators with phone calls and faxes against these attacks on the middle class. They may not see the light, but they will feel the heat. And they are voting on amnesty as we speak.

well said!

Thank you, that was brilliantly stated and reflects our sentiments perfectly.
Kathy, Bailey CO

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