I'm self employed and when business was good I worked 7 days a week, 12 hours a day.. No complaints there, I wish I had that workload today. My profession has been in critical decline for the last 2 years, many dental laboratories and clinics have closed and gone out of business, including some very good and knowledgable friends. The survivers have had to reduce their workforce by 50 to 75% to stay in business. I'm barely surviving myself. The only workers who are doing well thanks to the Obama administration are government union workers whose pay averages double what private sector workers make. I grew up in a home where my dad was a teamster union worker. The money he lost during every strike we never made up later. Im the first to admit that there was a need for unions one hundred years ago to protect workers from robber barons, however their time has passed. It's now the unions that exploit the workers for their pay to support corrupt union (organized crime) bosses lifestyle at the expense of the workers jobs due to the bloated wages and benefits that make American union made products too expensive to compete with American non union or foreign made products. The unions have become a fatal parasite feeding on American labor. A perfect example is the American steel industry. Nearly non existant due to union demands for higher and higher pay and benefits that drove the mills to close down. Please explaine how that helped those workers. I grew up in western Pennsylvania and saw first hand how thousands  suffered when the mills closed and the steel workers had no jobs or income to support their families.

Well we can thank the stinkin Democrats and rotten Republincans for that remember NAFTA my wife and I both lost jobs back then because of them.  MCOPELAND