It is time for the rich of this county- yes, Koches, you too- to make sacrifices they won't even feel for the sake of the common good.
But wait- the Wisconsin state deficit comes from republican Gov. Walker's actions. He came into office with a State Surplus! He squandered that with giveaways to his campaign corporate supporters in less than 2 months. That's acting in the public interest? being a good money manager?
Recall the governor.
YES YES YES. This is the REAL story. His outrageous "budget fix" proposals pale in comparison to the monstrous bald-faced lies he's telling in order to shove this agenda down Wisconsin's throat. I'm a student, I've been protesting this all week, but this is a vital part of the story that's been left out of most reports on the protests. His entire justification for these proposals is (to use Russ Feingold's phrase) "phony as a three-dollar bill."
PLEASE anyone who reads this REPOST! This story must be heard to expose Walker as the duplicitous political conniver that he is. We can rally and protest til the cows come home -- and we will! -- but as long as people believe Walker's scary fake-deficit story he'll be able to manipulate public opinion in his favor. Shout it from the rooftops!
Thanks for breaking down the financial rouse being played out in Wisconsin. It's illuminating but no surprise.
The Wisconsin Governor's attempt to end collective bargaining across the State is not new. Since the signing of the NLRA, the corporate elite and their band of courtiers have sought to reverse the right to unionization and collective bargaining. They've made huge success in the private sector which has fallen from 30% unionized to 7%, in 30 years. Because of union busting in the south, many Americans have the "right to work" for much less than their northern neighbors. America's corporate tyrants now aim to test their greedy tactics on the public sector workers.
It is time for every American, regardless of party, race, gender or class to ask if American people have the right to band with their co-workers to join a union, engage in collective bargaining and have some measure of control of their only real commodity: their labor. Is this freedom one that we all deserve or should the corporate elite and their courtiers deny us this right? It's time to choose.
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