People Who Go To Work Every Day

A Market Where Chief Executive Officers Make 262 Times That Of The Average Worker And 821 Times That Of The Minimum-wage Worker Is Not A Market That Is Working Well. And It Is Surely Not Working Well Enough To Build A Solid Middle Class.

America Is Becoming More And More Dependent Upon Imports From Foreign Manufacturers Than We Are Exports From Our Country In All Fields: In Appliances, In Clothing, Even Food. This Year America May Become For The First Time In Its History A Net Food Importer.

We Came From A Family Where We Ran Our Own Small Business. Our Dad Made His Own Products. We Made Our Own Sausages, Our Own Meatloafs, Our Own Pickles. Dad Had To Do Everything Himself. He Had To Figure Out How To Finance His Business.

People Who Go To Work Every Day And Perform The Services Essential To Keeping Our Economy Functioning Deserve To Live Above The Poverty Level.

I Grew Up In A Family Where Our Mother Made Our Clothing. We Didn't Have A Lot Of Money, So We Learned How To Scrimp, And We Learned How To Invent And To Create. And Those Are Learned Skills.