August of 2011 - Worth a second read: "30 Years Ago Today: The Day the Middle Class Died" A Letter from Michael Moore

Full letter: http://kirktanter.blogspot.com/2011/08/30-years-ago-today-day-middle-class.html

Below are a few Excerpts from the August 2011 Letter:

....Beginning on this date, 30 years ago, Big Business and the Right Wing decided to "go for it" -- to see if they could actually destroy the Middle Class so that they could become richer themselves.

And they've succeeded!!

On August 5, 1981, President Ronald Reagan fired every member of the air traffic controllers union (PATCO) who'd defied his order to return to work and declared their union illegal. They had been on strike for just two days...

...In getting rid of every single last one of them and outlawing their union, he sent a clear and strong message: The days of everyone having a comfortable middle class life were over. America, from now on, would be run this way:

* The super-rich will make more, much much more, and the rest of you will scramble for the crumbs that are left.

* Everyone must work! Mom, Dad, the teenagers in the house! Dad, you work a second job! Kids, here's your latch-key! Your parents might be home in time to put you to bed.

* 50 million of you must go without health insurance! And health insurance companies: you go ahead and decide who you want to help -- or not.

* Unions are evil! You will not belong to a union! You do not need an advocate! Shut up and get back to work! No, you can't leave now, we're not done. Your kids can make their own dinner.

* You want to go to college? No problem -- just sign here and be in hock to a bank for the next 20 years!

* What's "a raise"? Get back to work and shut up!

And so it went. But Reagan could not have pulled this off by himself in 1981. He had some big help...

...Link to read the Full Letter from Michael Moore: http://kirktanter.blogspot.com/2011/08/30-years-ago-today-day-middle-class.html