Dear Editor:
In response to luzr's letter, so companies should be able to bring in workers who'll work for $2 or $5 an hour? Sure, as long as they guarantee to support that person for the rest of their life, to pay for the education of his/her children, and to provide him/her (and family) with medical care for the rest of their days. But, they expect the rest of us to not only pay the taxes to provide for the basic care of these workers, but to buy their products with diminished wages. To send our young men and women, often from the poorest backgrounds, overseas to fight wars to protect corporate interests. And to look the other way while corporations and their officers loot company value, and stash the profits in bank accounts in the Caymans.
What we are seeing now is strangely reminiscent of the late 19th century, when Robber Barons ruled the roost, the public was damned, and Randolph Hearst helped start the Spanish American War.
Ali Alexander
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