The low wage employment tsunami: Low wage jobs now make up 25 percent of all employment in the United States.

http://www.mybudget360.com/low-wage-tsunami-percent-low-wage-labor-us-economy-income/

"The time for war has not yet come, but it will come and that soon, and when it does come, my advice is to draw the sword and throw away the scabbard." Gen. T.J. Jackson, March 1861