Originally Posted by mixedmedia

my comment was meant to be facetious. You deserve a pension and so do I.

I was parroting conservative platitudes that have been used for decades to give working class people the false assurance that they have control over their livelihoods. 'In the capitalist system, you can be whoever you want to be!' Which any working person who has been out there more than 15-20 years knows is a crock of shit. The companies that we work for have been chiseling away at what is rightfully ours for decades so that now we are in the position of resenting the few who still have the benefits and job security that our parents had. I mean, my father went to work for Southern Bell right out of college, stayed there for more than 50 years and retired with a pension. It's the way things used to be. Therefore, I cannot find it - not in my heart and not in my mind - to resent the few people who still have these benefits when it is my opinion that more people should have them, not less. Particularly when they are the people who are teaching our kids or protecting our streets or keeping our neighborhoods from burning down.

It's sick, what is happening to this country.

Let them eat cake? It's not me who is saying it. It's your employer.