Corporats vs The Common People

[Robert Reich - Why Washington isn't doing squat about jobs and wages.]

But there’s a third reason for Washington’s inaction. It’s not being talked about — which is itself evidence of the problem.

The unemployed are politically invisible. They don’t make major campaign donations. They don’t lobby Congress. There’s no National Association of Unemployed People.

Their ranks are filled with women who had been public employees, single mothers, minorities, young people trying to enter the labor force, and middle-aged men who have been out of work for longer than six months. You couldn’t find a collection of people with less political clout.

The wealthy-corporate elite, the Corporat, is our only real political party. Democrats and Republicans are just the different wings of the Corporat party that we're allowed to choose from. Vote either way and the common people lose.

We need that "none of the above" choice on the ballot.

tnb