We are in the midst of a prolonged war, a class struggle in which the employer class (a small minority) wages war on the labor force (the hundred and sixty million Americans who produce the goods and services we all depend on). Those hundred and sixty million are under assault. They have been for decades. Their real wages, which is the money they earn compared to the prices they have to pay, have not gone up in 35 years. They compensate for the loss of a rising income by having more members of the family go out to do more labor hours, and by borrowing more money than any working class in the
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