Now is the time to make your voice heard

I am sure that every one of you reading this hub has no doubt heard the news about the issues our fellow citizens are facing in Wisconsin. Whatever your opinion about organized labor, I am sure that a great number of us share the view that to allow legislation such as this to slip past and make it into law would set a very dangerous example for others who would do the same thing. The "middle class" in this nation is under fire from those who would, if they got their way, polarize our nation into those who have and those who have not.

I don't wish any ill will for anyone, and I want nothing more then to be able to work and support my family, like the way my father and his father supported their families. We were not anywhere near wealthy, but we had a very good middle class life. I would like to know why, in this day and age, a concept such as that is like asking for the moon.

I have always been "on the fence" as far as my opinion about organized labor, unions and the like is concerned. I will even go as far as to say that I felt a little offended when I would hear about the unions demands when contract issues were on the table because I felt that some of what they wanted was a little greedy. I have come to the realization that union or non-union, those in the public service or private sector, man or woman, born in the US or immigrant, are all in the same situation, and because of that, we all need to pull on the same rope.

Make your voice heard. Tell those politicans that no, you have taken enough from the working class, and put it into the hands of those Wall Street morons whose greed went a hell of a long ways to putting us into the shape we are in now. Organize your own groups, urge others to make their voices heard, go to a protest rally if it suits you. The only way things are ever going to change is if enough of us make it very clear that it is time things were done with a little more common sense, and less Wall Street greed.

Knowledge is power. We have to be the ones who save ourselves, and stop waiting for someone else to save us. Organize a General Strike, and urge others to take part in one as well, but, if nothing else, make it very clear that the days of the working class getting raped are over.