CAR: I’d point out that Richard Trumka, head of the AFL-CIO, makes approx $275k per year, or 8x the wage of the average union employee.
The problem is that it’s no longer Labor versus Capital anymore. It’s a rigged game. Way back when you could count on there being an actual difference between Republicans and Democrats. The GOP was the party of the moneyed elite and the Dems fought for the rights of pretty much everyone else and was strongly supported by Big Labor as a result.
Now, it’s all about the money and the money buys access and the GOP and the Dems are indistinguishable from one another, and that has now impacted our lives from civil liberties to a working wage. In a certain light, Obama doesn’t look all that different from Nixon, or Dubya and Clinton wasn’t different from Reagan (the joke being that Clinton was an excellent Republican president).
The whole rotting edifice stinks and nothing will change without sweeping and substantive reform. Think that’s happening anytime soon?
