Crossposted at My Left Wing and Daily Kos
I am pissed that Democrats don’t adequately address the issues of poverty, or the REALITY that HELL-FUCKING-O, not everyone is going to Harvard even under the best educational system.
True, in a city like Boston with over 50 colleges & universities within city limits, it’s not surprising if the barista at Starbucks has a PhD in Russian Literature – but for the most part there will always be a working class doing the shitwork of society, and they deserve to be paid to clean up the shit of white collar professionals just as much as those white collar professionals deserve to get paid for their skills & expertise, they deserve to be paid to clean up the poisonous shit left by the multi-million dollar earning corporations and the fat cats who don’t have to work for a living now at all. (NO ONE should be earning less than $10/hr – that SHOULD BE the minimum wage, because people can actually LIVE ON IT!)
I’m all for an educated population, but when people talk about education as the stepping stone to A Better Life, all I can say is that THERE IS NOT ENOUGH ROOM IN THIS WORLD FOR EVERYONE TO MOVE ON TO THAT BETTER LIFE. Still got to haul the garbage, clean the office buildings, empty the bedpans, stock the shelves, work the machines, make the clothes – it’s tough work, but SOMEONE has to do it, and those people deserve respect for the ass-breaking hard work they do standing on their fucking feet all day long every day – no job is harder on the body than a shit-level job. Even if you’re a computer programmer working 80 hours a week, you still get to sit down at your desk, wear clean clothes, and go to the bathroom when you want. You are probably not subjected to random drug testing, reflexive suspicion of theft, or fake personality tests designed to determine if you are likely to try to form a labor union at your place of employment.
Politicians would not have so much as a roll of toilet paper to wipe their asses without factory workers.
So let’s GET REAL, shall we, and embrace the working class of this country for serving the very noble purpose THAT IT IN FACT DOES.