About – United We Stand for All

The United States of America cannot survive as a healthy democratic republic unless and until it restores and maintains a large, healthy, and prosperous majority of citizens as a combined middle-working class of individuals.

What’s My Gig?

The United We Stand for All Facebook group associated with this website can be found here.

My purpose is two-fold:

(1) Restore the prosperous middle class that made the United States both strong and united during the few decades after the second world war.

(2) Encourage citizens of the United States to put aside their feelings about our differences in order to build a united front and bring about prosperity for us all.

I’m not a politician, have no political aspirations, and am not running for any political office. I’m not asking for money or trying to bilk anyone out of theirs. I simply want my grandchildren and their grandchildren to have a comfortable life.

Currently, kids starting out as young adults in minimum- or low-wage jobs can’t afford housing to live on their own, much less be completely self-supporting. That’s a problem. In 2022, studies based on then-current median salary and living-expense figures, showed that it would take double your salary in 2022, to cover living expenses, and still be as financially well-off as you’d have been with median salaries and expenses fifty years prior, in 1972. With spiking inflation through 2022 into 2023, today’s situation for workers trying to cover living expenses is even more dire.

Another serious problem is that over the past three to four decades, job stability has become a thing of the past. How can a person handle a 30-year mortgage on a home if they’re not likely to hold a job for even 3 years, much less 30? There was a time when companies looked askance at a resume’ showing that a job applicant changed jobs in 3 years or less – they didn’t want to hire a “job-hopper”. Companies used to value the knowledge that employees brought to their jobs, as well as the experience that they gained there and used to do their jobs better, more effectively, and more efficiently. Now, corporate focus is on exorbitant executive salaries, slashing expenses, and raising the value of corporate stocks – often at the expense of employee jobs, salaries, and benefits. The problem is that this switch destabilizes the foundations of society by eroding the stable ground on which its workers stand.

What kind of society is left if workers are unable to count on steady employment, or to meet living expenses even when they do have a job? This is the situation that we as US citizens are facing today. It appears that many refuse to see it. You wonder how conspiracy theories take root? How people like Donald Trump, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Lauren Boebert get elected? It’s because there’s a simmering unrest. The pot of discontent has been simmering for decades as legislators continued to turn up the heat. Loud candidates like Trump, Greene, and Boebert who vocally attack the legislative and executive establishments have cracked that lid enough that the discontented then latch onto them with the hope of relief. The problem is that self-aggrandizing individuals such as Trump, Greene, and Boebert are not enacting legislation to benefit workers, raise wages, and promote job stability – they’re simply flapping their jaws to get attention by bashing someone whom they label as “other”. Such chaos simply distracts workers from uniting to form a strong front that can succeed in demanding higher wages and job stability.

Strong labor unions once ensured employment, a living wage, job benefits, and safe working conditions for many. Labor unions’ effectiveness has since been gutted by state and federal legislation favoring corporate rather than worker interests. The working class has been left choking in the dust of corporations’ race to higher profits. (Are those profits true benefits over the long term, or manipulated to look good in an annual report? At one time, I was a contract employee at MCI, where contractors survived the annual holiday-season employee terminations that were made to give the impression of an improved bottom line at the end of the year, with most of those employees re-hired in January so work could actually carry on. Where is MCI today?)

Home, Health, Education

Most people would be fairly content if they had a job providing sufficient income to cover their living expenses, which includes paying a mortgage on a home in a safe neighborhood with good schools for educating their children.

If you want job stability, a living wage, and an affordable home, then let’s work together and make that happen.

Ditch the Anger

Forget political affiliation. Forget about religion, skin tone, gender identity, or anything else that can be used to divide us. Yes, the United States is less “white” than it was in the mid-twentieth century — that’s old news. The horses have left the stable and there’s no point in shutting that barn door. The old horses needed some exercise, fresh grass, and new blood anyway, all of which can make them stronger. Someone else’s skin tone or cultural heritage is not what’s keeping you or your children from having a good job and affordable housing.

What’s the Real Problem?

In a word: greed. Greed for power and money. The will of a few who trample the many in pursuit of power and money. The fact that some members of Congress care more about lining their pockets, getting re-elected, raising their political profile, or increasing their social media engagement than actually performing activities to benefit the constituents who elected them. (There is a list of Enablers and their Solutions on this site’s “Reality Check” page.)

Beware of Politician Put-downs

Have you noticed that much of politics has become criticism of other politicians rather than promoting policies that will benefit US citizens? Rather than congress men and women working together to the benefit of those who elected them, hyper-partisanship has put the brakes on actions to benefit the general populace. If the time and energy spent on slamming a political opponent or the other party were spent working to benefit constituents, then imagine what could be accomplished!

The representative or senator who makes you angry and turns you against the other political party is distracting you from the fact that that representative or senator is not passing legislation or otherwise working to actually make your life better.

Don’t fall for it. Hold your legislators responsible for improving wages, infrastructure, policies that benefit our citizens. Make them responsible for taking positive action, make them responsive to your needs, and hold them accountable.

Be informed about who actually does what in congress, and vote accordingly. It’s not about party. It’s about action to improve the lives of the many.