Indulge me for a few paragraphs while I tell you a story about my wife's sister. Let's call her Sarah. I think her story illustrates, in a fundamental way, what this election is all about. Sarah works for a medical device manufacturer as a line supervisor. About a year ago the company was bought by a larger corporation. The corporation, seeking bigger profits, decided to replace the older workers with younger people at less pay. Not able to do this directly without breaking laws, they told the older workers like Sarah to go back to working on the line. This was a demotion. The hope was that these workers would feel humiliated and quit. Sarah didn't quit, figuring that she would get paid the same and would now have less responsibility. Fast forward a year and the company is now losing money. They are not meeting just in time delivery requirements. Product quality is not up to snuff and people are falsifying documents and time cards. To try and rectify the problem, management reverts to what worked before. They ask Sarah once again to supervise the line. Sarah negotiates a modest pay raise and some other modest benefits. The management now reports that they are back in the black, after following Sarah's recommendations. Although I am proud of my sister in law, I post this story because it shows so clearly that many have lost a respect for labor in this country. Workers are not a drag on corporate profits. Workers create the profits. That is what this election is about on a very fundamental level. We need a government that respects labor; a government that knows that labor is the source of our wealth. That is why Sarah, her husband, me and my wife will be voting for Barack Obama and a Democratic ticket.