The average worker has had an 11% raise over inflation since 1977. The average CEO had that much last year alone. The average professional baseball, basketball, football, and hockey player got much more with the stars getting outrageous increases. Many CEOs make over a thousand times more than the median worker. Why aren’t the workers of America rightly upset?

The massive corporate tax cut that was to wend its way down to those median workers who desperately need sizeable raises didn’t make it. Less than ten percent have used the money to help their workers. Most directly or indirectly raised their salaries, increased their stock price using stock buy-backs, or purchased another company. Since almost 90% of our country’s wealth is owned by less than 1% of us, the massive tax cut did nothing for 99% of us.

The trickle down economic philosophy means the fire hydrant water floods into the fire hose but a trickle comes out the nozzle. If that happened at a fire people would demand answers. Why not now? If the economy is doing so well why are millions of workers getting little or no pay increases? Why are the workers on bicycles when the upper managers are in Ferraris? Newspapers, magazines, and TV have shown only a small interest in the situation. The administration and the Republican congress said their tax cut would help low and middle class Americans more than the rich before the cut and while campaigning. Why aren’t they asked why you aren’t being given raises like the upper managers and CEOs? Also ask who is going to pay for the massive debt and deficit of over 1.5 trillion this year. Those are good questions to ask. Let’s see if we get truthful answers.