We see a very dangerous dynamic going on in the state of Wisconsin, and the state of Ohio, and the state of Florida and, and…
The GOP is selling the meme that hard working Americans should be outraged that hard working Americans have a tiny bit more than they do…
The Governor of Wisconsin proposes to strip all state workers the right of collective bargaining under the guise of a state budget crisis. The fact is that Wisconsin was projected to have a surplus this year before Gov. Walker cut taxes, additionally stripping workers of their bargaining rights will have little to no impact in the short term.
The Republicans have spent 30 years engineering the largest concentration of wealth that has been experienced in this country since the 1920′s and now they want those that have been decimated, stagnated, downsized and degraded to rip each other to shreds for the scraps left over…
Think about this for just a moment.
The median weekly wage for a non union worker is $717
The median weekly wage for a union worker is $917
The median weekly income for the top 1.5% is $4,807
The median weekly income for the top .1% is $30760
So logically the GOP would like to see those at the bottom of the earnings scale angry and outraged at those barely higher on the scale… oh and while they are at it outrage at the unemployed and those crushed by the housing crisis would very effectively control the 98% of this country that is being fleeced by unmitigated greed.
Now that the GOP have come completely out into the open to blatantly advocate for only the richest and most powerful we had better be prepared to go to the mat because if we can’t beat them when they behave like this there is very little hope.
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It’s a class war and we think that can’t happen in an “egalitarian” society but the economics are undeniable. The “American Dream” of doing better than your parents and moving up the economic ladder based on your own hard work and effort is all but gone. I’ve watched my children struggle in non-union jobs to have things as basic as adequate health care and enough money to pay the rent. We have $900 billion to bail out Wall Street and we have $800 billion to give tax cuts to everyone including the very rich. We have $80 billion a year for wars. It angers me that across the nation our states collectively face a $130 billion dollar deficit and we can’t help ourselves. Under the guise of “rebuilding” our economy, we continue to protect the rich while increasing the burden on ourselves and our childern.