Americans just want fair deal

Randall Babin states in his Feb. 10 letter, “The real American dream should be to work smart and get your name in the upper left corner (of your paycheck)” rather than grouse about how much wealthier your employer is than you.

It is a myth that all one has to do is work smart to get one’s name in the upper left corner of a paycheck. How many people would believe that smart work is all it takes to be a doctor or a rocket scientist? Just as successful doctors and rocket scientists have the aptitude for that sort of career, so, too, do businesspeople have a particular aptitude for business.

Why should people who don’t have an aptitude for business, i.e., employees, be paid so much less than those people who do? The 99 percent don’t want to bring down the extremely wealthy. Rather, they simply want to see some of that greatly amassed wealth trickle down to the employees as they were told it would.

If employees cannot earn enough from their jobs to allow them to have what constitutes a decent living in this country, then how else can they get it?

Debra Miller

Coeur d’Alene