47% - The Foot-Soldiers Of The Economy

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We are the foot-soldiers of the economy.
We are the bartenders, waiters, cubicle cowboys and delivery truck drivers.
We run the economy.
We may work for a corporation, but we are not owned by a corporation.
We deal with the public, we may serve them food, deliver their packages and handle their credit card issues.
We are the ones you berate for your own benefit.
We see you at your weakest and strongest.
You berate us for not having a college education, but you cause college education to be out of our reach.
You think we're simpletons and uneducated.
You believe we're the ones who have the problem with your wealth, when it's you who have the problem with our middle class and poor.
You don't know who we are, but you will.
We are not the beggars and thieves of Dickens.
We are the foot-soldiers of the economy.
Without us the economy doesn't work
We stood by and watched you get your bailouts, while we suffered, lost our homes and were ridiculed by the banks.
Your power is in your money.
Our power is in our number.
We are the 47%


I had to modify this post to reflect a few things.