You can feel it in Rick’s voice—
the weight of wages, the grit of lived truth.
This isn’t punditry.
It’s kitchen-table clarity.
The kind of talk that smells like steel
and sounds like someone who’s been there.
Policy’s fine on paper,
but it’s what happens at the factory gate,
the checkout line,
the second job no one brags about.
What Rick names isn’t new.
It’s just finally being heard—
loud, local, and without apology.
So the question echoes—
if working people are the backbone,
why do we keep breaking them?
There’s more. Say it if you feel it. ♾️
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You can feel it in Rick’s voice—
the weight of wages, the grit of lived truth.
This isn’t punditry.
It’s kitchen-table clarity.
The kind of talk that smells like steel
and sounds like someone who’s been there.
Policy’s fine on paper,
but it’s what happens at the factory gate,
the checkout line,
the second job no one brags about.
What Rick names isn’t new.
It’s just finally being heard—
loud, local, and without apology.
So the question echoes—
if working people are the backbone,
why do we keep breaking them?
There’s more. Say it if you feel it. ♾️