That's what we got to get through to people. It's not about evading the necessities of the market. It's about providing balance to the market, an upward force for workers to compete with the downward forces of the market.

If you don't like where your wages and benefits have gone, then you need to support unions. If you don't like how you and your friends are mistreated and abused, you need to stand up for yourself with organized labor.

Labor needs to be strengthened, if the middle class is to be strengthened, too. It's no accident that the best years for the middle class were the heyday of unionization in America.

When people could set the price for their services with greater strength, America could avoid more of the consequences of the middle class not being paid enough to keep up with the market. We didn't carry the deadweight of so much debt. We didn't carry the burden of a system set against us.

What corporations don't realize is that their harsh policies, ultimately, must create a response. They can wait until that response is so powerful, so overwhelmingly strong, that it runs roughshod over their interests, or they can realize that the undercurrent of frustration and stress that might causes should instead be appeased, so as to ease all those tensions. When people are comfortable, when their needs are met, there is no class warfare, nor is there any need for it.

People will be comfortable with what the rich earn when they don't have to suffer for the rich to earn it.