Who really are the greedy ones?

To those of you who insist on blaming the greedy unions for job losses, try looking at this from a different point of view.

The multimillion-dollar salaries those corporate boys give themselves are not secret (must be nice). Imagine $12 million a year is $1 million a month or $250,000 a week. One can only assume that $1 million a month for this group must be pure poverty so they will increase their monthly to 5-, 10-, 15 million and one way is to hike prices, rates, layoffs, shipping jobs overseas for cheap labor, instead of paying Americans a decent wage. Since when is wanting a good-paying, decent job in which one can support his or her family like keeping a roof over one’s head, food on the table, being able to pay bills, see the doctor if needed, having a car, clothes, shoes, education and even having some left over for savings become greedy?

It’s as if the Republicans have declared a pay and/or raise war against the unions (and working class) for being too greedy and are trying to bust them like in Wisconsin. Yet they are suspiciously silent about the multimillion-dollar salaries of corporate America, professional athletes, even celebrities. Why aren’t they upset, angered by those salaries? Maybe it’s time to rethink the who’s who of greed.

Linda Schuett

Antioch