There's a part of me that's a little bothered by the fact that forty-five years after Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot to death in Memphis while there to support striking sanitation workers, that we still have so many people fighting for a decent living wage (sad fact: 7 of the 10 most common jobs in America pay less than $30,000 a year).
But a bigger part of me is quite proud of the fact that we Liberals continue to fight for it despite the odds, and support groups like the fast food workers in New York City who staged a walkout today in their fight for a decent living wage, on the anniversary of King's assassination. And bemoans the weakened state of unions in America, and the lack of public recognition for all the good they have done for working Americans.
I defy anyone to name anything that the modern incarnation of the republican party has ever done to make life better for average working class Americans.
And by the way, delusions of paranoia don't count.
Peace,
emaycee
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