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Given the failure of the American Congress to provide adequate relief for the millions of struggling members of the American working class, who even now are being crushed under the weight of massive socioeconomic inequality, low wages, and the ever rising cost of living, it is my belief that only direct action on the part of workers will provide the impetus necessary to enact real change.
Historically, those with wealth and power will almost never surrender even a fraction of it for the sake of those beneath them, unless they are forced to do so. And so this is exactly what I propose. A nationwide, general strike of all American labor, for the purpose of obtaining those benefits which are taken for granted in almost every other developed nation, but which are systemically denied to the American worker: universal healthcare, paid parental leave, a higher national minimum wage, improved working conditions and protections, and federal subsidies for daycare and housing.
It is time to stop waiting for the day when the ruling class, the politicians and businessmen, deign to offer the working class their fair share. Unless we stand up and do it ourselves, that day will never come.
Historically, those with wealth and power will almost never surrender even a fraction of it for the sake of those beneath them, unless they are forced to do so. And so this is exactly what I propose. A nationwide, general strike of all American labor, for the purpose of obtaining those benefits which are taken for granted in almost every other developed nation, but which are systemically denied to the American worker: universal healthcare, paid parental leave, a higher national minimum wage, improved working conditions and protections, and federal subsidies for daycare and housing.
It is time to stop waiting for the day when the ruling class, the politicians and businessmen, deign to offer the working class their fair share. Unless we stand up and do it ourselves, that day will never come.