Salary Gap And Salary Cap New Reality For Most Workers

What the Reagan Revolution and the demise of unions did more than anything else was establish a salary gap and salary cap on most workers pay. The best kept secret about the economy is that a great many jobs paying between $30,000 and $60,000 a year have disappeared. And the other little secret is that a high paying job is now considered to be $30,000 a year with limited or no benefits.

Along with that the full time job is disappearing more and more being replaced with seasonal, part time, temporary or fixed price contract work. It is not just the number of jobs being created. It the the kind and the economic value of the jobs that are created. Most labor stats hide or understate the quality of the job market.

I am quite surprised in some ways even though I predicted what I see today in 1981. What Reagan was up to with the help of big business cronies was so obvious yet voters kept buying the Kool Aid. I have to congratulate the Reaganites, the GOP, conservatives and corporate America is that they succeeded.

The biggest reason that I KNOW that they have succeeded is that I heard a young lady who will graduate this spring comment, "I WILL BE HAPPY IF I CAN GET A JOB MAKING $30,000 a year.

THAT WOULD BE A LOFTY GOAL WHEN BUSINESS IS TOUTING THE FACT THAT $14.00 IS A HUGELY HIGH PAYING JOB. AND THAT EVEN $10.00 AN HOUR IS EVEN MORE GENEROUS.

THE QUESTION IS HOW MUCH LONGER ARE WORKING AMERICANS GOING TO ACCEPT THIS CORPORATE DRIVEL!!!!?????