According to Senator Sessions, the problem is a demographic one involving age. In an OP-ED piece the senator wrote for National Review, Senator Sessions makes the following points. 1) Today’s typical 18- to 34-year-old earns about $2,000 less per year (adjusted for inflation) than their counterpart in 1980. 2) Nearly one in four Americans in their prime working years (ages 25–54) are not working. This includes 10 million American men and 18 million American women. 3) Real median weekly earnings are lower today than they were in 2000. 4) Median family income is down $4,000 since November 2007 Senator Sessions winds up asking “Will we defend and protect the people who sent us here — their laws, their Constitution, their communities — or we will abandon them?” In response to this, I remember the overweening arrogance of Former Apple CEO Steve Jobs. “Mr. President, those jobs are not coming back.” Not if Silicon Valley, The Chamber of Commerce, La Raza, or The Main Street Partnership can help it. The people, who like Senator Sessions, stand up for average, working class Americans are no longer thick on the ground. It is ultimately up to those of us who still care about what we leave to the next generation of Americans to stand with Senator Sessions and fight this sickening corruption of both the Democrats and The Republicans before our country rots before our eyes. redstate/2014/12/16/senator-jeff-sessions-winter-soldier-american-working-class/
Posted on: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 05:25:48 +0000