Because being competitive means that you need to pay people less than minimum wage, right? And actually give people benefits and help pay for their healthcare. After all, laborers and the lower-classes should be thankful for the jobs the corporations and businesses deem fit to hand out, right?

Well, we're in that world right now - the corporations, the major ones, are strong. They have had steadily increasing profits for a long time. The financial sector keeps pulling more money. And guess what? It's still crap for people on the bottom. Trickle-down economics are crap. Sure, the rich are pulling in more and more money, but that doesn't help us. My father has been unemployed for almost two years now. He works part-time in retail just to keep the house.

Save your apologies. They don't really help anyone put food on the table or keep a roof over their heads. Because I do understand your position. It's fuck everyone else, I have mine and if the poor are starving or living in crappy apartments or are unemployed because the manufacture companies found it more profitable to export their factories, well, shit. That's just too bad for them. They'll find a way! Bootstraps! What matters is that the company has more money and the stockholders are happy!