Iowa

that good jobs here are going, going, gone. And that's not entirely untrue - look at the layoffs from Deere a couple months ago. In Marshalltown, Lennox and the UAW reached an agreement - but judging from how tight-lipped union officials were about it, it wasn't very good for the workers.

I think while basically Iowa's unemployment rate is not bad, living wage jobs are becoming scarcer. And people would much rather blame the fast food worker not satisfied with $7.25, than the greedy ass corporations who suppress wages, among other nefarious things. Why people aren't smart enough here to follow the money, I don't know, but there it is.