Web Letters: Wooing the White Working Class

By David Moberg

This article appeared in the October 13, 2008 edition of The Nation.

September 24, 2008

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  • If all of your economic advisers are from Wall Street and not Main Street, and want to outsource jobs or privatize Social Security, then you are going to lose the labor and senior citizen vote. Protect the real economy of ordinary people who support the American economy and you will get everyone's vote, along with economic growth!

    Pervis James Casey

    Riverside, CA

    09/26/2008 @ 3:30pm


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