Don't look behind the curtain. Look over here, pretty lights, nice suits, flags, Bibles, sensitive country music songs that bring a tear. I am old enough to remember that the union workers were the common man. The truck driving, gun owning middle class people that just wanted to be able to make a living wage and get health care for his family. How in the hell did we come to the point that the hard working union workers, laborers, fire fighters, police officers, teachers have become the enemy?
I will break it down for you. Of the top 10 campaign contributors that affected the 2008 elections, 7 of them were conservative entities or individuals, and 3 out of the 10 were unions that were campaigning for Progressive candidates. SO, the conservatives that promised that their first order of business was to create jobs, and help the economy, immediately started trying to bust the Unions.After all, 2 years is not nearly enough time to change all those things (even though 3 months after Obama took office they were saying, where is the change), but it is enough time to bust the Unions that generations before us fought so hard for. If and when this happens, and trust me progressives, if we don't get off our asses and walk the walk, the 2012 elections are going to make us cry out loud. And, you have no one to blame but yourselves.
What is even sadder are the methods they are using to ram these job killing bills through state legislatures. In Ohio, they couldn't even get it through required committees. They couldn't get their own Republican members to vote for it, so they just replaced one of them with someone who agreed.
ReplyDeleteIn Wisconsin, they resorted to breaking laws requiring proper notice to members of the vote. Didn't even let members know what they were voting on.
In several states the Republicans are trying to pass laws to make it more difficult for typical Democrat voters to register to vote or make it more difficult to vote. Check out this video: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show/#42021140
They are going to pay, WE NEED TO MAKE THEM PAY.