Nation's Rulers Disconnected from Everyday Lives of Americans

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May 28, 2009

It’s probably not necessary to point out that most Americans do not associate with national politicians, corporate executives, or Supreme Court justices.

Their lives are very dissimilar, since the politicians, corporate executives, and judges and other members of the bar are the ones in control and in power. It’s likely to remain so for some time to come.

This is a bad time for the people, for wage-earning Americans, and every day, more and more of them are thrown onto the unemployment rolls and, because of the loss of so many millions of well-paying jobs in recent months, many millions more Americans are going without health care for themselves and their families than the 47 million that are usually noted.

The power brokers in the U.S. are suffering no such losses in their personal lives, yet. It’s very easy for them to make every effort to maintain the status quo, because they have no idea what it’s like to scramble for money to pay the rent, for food, to take a child or spouse to the doctor. These are things that powerful people and the well-off don’t think about, but workers think about them all the time, especially when they are without a job.

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1. That's how most working people feel.