It's been 150 days now since the GOP let unemployment EUC benefits expire. About 3 million working Americans who either had been, or now have been out of work for more than ~6 months have lost between 1 and 21 weeks of income.
In the early 80's recessions the GOP successfully and permanently lowered the floor on wages and benefits in this country. They are working hard to do it again. The minimum wage is now lower than in 1950.
3 million people are the direct victims of their terror campaign against labor. Wall Street is ecstatic. 3 million people thrown out of work for months through no fault of their own are denied the wages of justice, unemployment insurance paid to those in their circumstances in every previous postwar recovery, in order to extort their return to labor at previously unimaginable recompense.
The entire American labor force is the indirect victim of this GOP terror campaign. The 3 million are casualties of teaching us our place, bent and broken under the corporate lash, grateful for the generosity which allows us to work ourselves into an early grave for the greater glory of quarterly earnings..
Don't quit your job. Take the abuse. Don't complain. Don't ask for any crumb. There's another wage slave right behind you. If you don't want to work for less than it costs to keep you, he will. Complain and we'll cut your hours. Don't get the message, we'll lay you off. Don't have a job, HR will lose your resume. Can't get a job, we'll cut off your EUC.
If you can't be a good example of a prole, you'll just have to be a horrible warning of uncompensated unemployment. You didn't get the training. If you did, it was the wrong training. Stupid prole. You can't find a job because you're lazy and didn't work hard enough. You want too much money, you have to accept the new realities.
When will we say: ENOUGH?
The only power the people have against capital is our numbers. We will continue to lose everything we have, to the point of literal starvation, until we join together, and say ENOUGH.
If we don't make them pay, we won't get paid. It's just that simple. If you aren't scared yet, you have your head in the sand.