Fair treatment needed for middle class

Middle and lower class Americans keep getting blamed for the ills of this country. As if it is their fault that jobs are sent out of this country. The playing field has changed.

Corporate America has been putting the squeeze on our working class to the point that they don't have much blood left. Working people don't get tax breaks. Their insurance premiums skyrocket as do food and fuel costs.

As a single mother, I raised a family by myself through the 1970s and '80s. Today, I couldn't do it. With bread at almost $4 a loaf and gas at $3-plus a gallon, I would be eaten alive by expenses. Cost-of-living raises are not even mentioned anymore because middle and lower class Americans are not getting 18 percent or more raises. Corporate America is.

America is not the industrial country it once was and will never be again. Can we get our jobs back and start treating our working class fairly?

Evelyn Bunting

Mount Vernon