I just learned on NPR that "until recently" GM employees had health care benefits which were "extremely generous" because... get this... you could include your wife and children essentially for free.Ah, those crazy times decades ago when salaried employees got health care for their families and apparently America was a much wealthier nation.
As I dig deeper into the details of the evolution of public policy across the 20th century, it never ceases to amaze me just how successful conservatives have been at ratcheting down the expectations Americans have about what they can accomplish together. At this point, things have fallen so far that we regard as crazy the very minimal collective guarantees that we not that long ago used to provide.
I mean, my goodness! A world in which a job payed enough in wages and benefits to provide for a family of four? That's just far too generous. With those sorts of expenses, how were GM executives supposed to buy second and third homes?
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