Streetwalkers for Dennis Kucinich, a recently formed Political Action Committee, will be holding its first fundraiser for the wannabe President this upcoming Friday night on the corner of Hollywood and Vine in Los Angeles.

Judy, Maria, and Trixy have pledged to donate all of their earnings* that evening to Kucinich's Presidential campaign to help the tiny (and we do mean *tiny*) Ohio Congressman become the biggest dick in the country.

We'll also be handing out numerous packets of specially made condoms with the Congressman's name and face imprinted on them for you to give out to your friends and family to help him increase his name recognition.

When:

Friday night around 11:00 P.M.

Where:

The corner of Hollywood and Vine.

*25% of all monies collected that evening will be used to pay off all of the fine folks who work in the LAPD Vice squad.

When it's clear that Kucinich is a real threat, the volume of attacks increase like clockwork.

Labor has stood almost alone while corporations have cut wages and benefits, slashed working hours, tried to undermine wage and hour provisions, reneged on contracts, and jettisoned retirements through bankruptcy strategies. The current clamor for corporate accountability calls for honesty in stating the numbers, and faithful custody of shareholders money.

Yet there needs to be equal concern for those who created the wealth through their labor because the attacks on unions are a means of redistributing the wealth upwards. As union membership has declined, the disparity of wealth has increased. Since 1973 union membership has dropped from 24% to 14%. And the share of aggregate income of the poor, the middle class and the upper middle class has declined. Congress has not passed an increase in the .15 minimum wage even though the inflation adjusted minimum wage is 21% lower today than in 1979.

Since 1981 the share of income of the richest 5% of this country has increased more than 40% while that of the lowest fifth has decreased more than 20%. An even starker contrast arises. According to Business Week, the average CEO made 42 times the average workers pay in 1980, 85 times in 1990 and 531 times in 2000. Forbes Magazine points out that the number of billionaires increased from 13 in 1982 to 149 in 1996.

Labor has stood almost alone while corporations have cut wages and benefits, slashed working hours, tried to undermine wage and hour provisions, reneged on contracts, and jettisoned retirements through bankruptcy strategies. The current clamor for corporate accountability calls for honesty in stating the numbers, and faithful custody of shareholders money.

Yet there needs to be equal concern for those who created the wealth through their labor because the attacks on unions are a means of redistributing the wealth upwards. As union membership has declined, the disparity of wealth has increased. Since 1973 union membership has dropped from 24% to 14%. And the share of aggregate income of the poor, the middle class and the upper middle class has declined. Congress has not passed an increase in the .15 minimum wage even though the inflation adjusted minimum wage is 21% lower today than in 1979.

Since 1981 the share of income of the richest 5% of this country has increased more than 40% while that of the lowest fifth has decreased more than 20%. An even starker contrast arises. According to Business Week, the average CEO made 42 times the average workers pay in 1980, 85 times in 1990 and 531 times in 2000. Forbes Magazine points out that the number of billionaires increased from 13 in 1982 to 149 in 1996.