The
airwaves are saturated with corporate apologists. They ask us why
public-sector employees have benefits—sneeringly called
“entitlements”—which
nonunionized working- and middle-class people
are denied. This argument is ingenious. It pits worker against worker
in a mad scramble for scraps. And
until we again speak in the
language of open class warfare, grasping, as those who went before us
did, that the rich will always protect themselves
at our expense, we are doomed to a 21st century serfdom. - Chris Hedges [truth dig weekly column]
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