Editorials & Other Articles

Sadly, it has been a long road to get here. I have a hard time believing that this is what our country has come to but there is no denying it. What I find especially difficult is that now that our future is here (for those who grew up in the '60s and '70s), it is that this once hopeful future is in so many ways such a disappointment.


Employment, education, the environment, science, transportation. On the list goes of things that have regressed over the past 40 years.

To read this short story, knowing how true it is, knowing how hopeless the prospects for a decent job with benefits is for so many of our citizens, and knowing that the game has been so well rigged by the corporations and politicians, just fills me with sadness and a sick frustration.

There were a hundred, maybe a thousand, little turning points over the decades. There is a lot of irony. After all, it all really started with the election of Ronald Reagan, the man who was portrayed as the friend of the working man. Nothing could have been further from the truth but much of that myth lives on today.

Still, time and again, the people have elected those who pay lip service to the workers while paving the way for the corpocracy to gain total control. There will be no laws passed to change this situation until there is a sea change.

The minimum wage is a tiny component. Employers have invaded the privacy of the worker. The worker gets no respect. All is outlined so well by the author but for one point. I fear we have met the enemy and the enemy is us all who have allowed this to happen.