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Dear Editor,
I can understand the feelings of those taking part in the protest against wall street and those protests by Occupy MN.
Many of their concerns are clear. Consider our reality in 2011:
One percent capture 25 percent of the nations income.
40 percent control it’s weath.
25 million need full time work.
CEO’s are politically strong, workers are weak.
Wages of CEO’s and corporate profits have soared.
Corporations continue to ship jobs overseas.
The jobs created in America are mostly minimum wages.
One in four homes are under water.
50 million have no health insurance and health care costs are soaring.
50 percent of all Americans have no retirement plan at work, pensions are disappearing and Social Security and medicare face cuts.
College debt is now higher than credit card debt. More and more students are priced out of higher education. 1 in 6 Americans live in poverty.
The very rich have pocketed almost all the rewards of economic growth.
The people elected a president who promised to change the reality. Now they’ve handed Obama his head, in spites of the “middle of the road” reforms he proposed.
Ask your elected officials if they are on your side? Whose side is running our government? The rich, the middle class or the poor?
Archie Pearson, LaSalle
Dear Editor,
I can understand the feelings of those taking part in the protest against wall street and those protests by Occupy MN.
Many of their concerns are clear. Consider our reality in 2011:
One percent capture 25 percent of the nations income.
40 percent control it’s weath.
25 million need full time work.
CEO’s are politically strong, workers are weak.
Wages of CEO’s and corporate profits have soared.
Corporations continue to ship jobs overseas.
The jobs created in America are mostly minimum wages.
One in four homes are under water.
50 million have no health insurance and health care costs are soaring.
50 percent of all Americans have no retirement plan at work, pensions are disappearing and Social Security and medicare face cuts.
College debt is now higher than credit card debt. More and more students are priced out of higher education. 1 in 6 Americans live in poverty.
The very rich have pocketed almost all the rewards of economic growth.
The people elected a president who promised to change the reality. Now they’ve handed Obama his head, in spites of the “middle of the road” reforms he proposed.
Ask your elected officials if they are on your side? Whose side is running our government? The rich, the middle class or the poor?
Archie Pearson, LaSalle
